Canada’s Brandt Group is stepping up its presence in the U.S. with the acquisition of a ready-made modern manufacturing facility in Illinois. The Brandt Agricultural Products division currently occupies a 110,000 square foot facility on a 40 acre site just outside Regina, Sask., where it makes grain augers, conveyors and vacuums, large flexible tine harrows and grain carts.

Some of these products will also be built at the 75,000 square foot facility in Hudson, Ill…