A Canadian composites company with a St. Johnsbury production facility plans to nearly double its workforce

A Canadian composites company with a St. Johnsbury production facility plans to nearly double its workforce and invest a half-million dollars here to make electric truck body parts.

BHS Composites, based in Sherbrooke, has been operating a plant in the St. Johnsbury-Lyndon Industrial Park since 2016.

The company has contracts for electric trucks and electric school buses. The St. Johnsbury plant is making truck parts now and investments in workforce and technology will make it the location for all of the BHS electric truck business. Parts of electric trucks manufactured by BHS include doors, steps, roofs and bumpers.