Westcana Electric
Westcana Electric serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout western Canada. The electrical contractor boasts offices in Calgary, Prince George, Terrace, Fort St. John, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nelson, and Fort Nelson, so the team can handle maintenance calls anywhere at any time, day or night.
Site Selectors Guild
The Site Selectors Guild is bringing an up-and-coming profession to the forefront. Founded just seven years ago, the guild is the first and only association to represent the world’s leading site selection consultants. These consultants are committed to helping client companies find the ideal site for every industry, sector, and function.
Universal Tank and Fabrication
Universal Tank & Fabrication, a division of Vestek Industries, specializes in the fabrication of pressure vessels, industrial tanks and fabrications. The Dubuque, Iowa based company delivers a complete, end-to-end solution from the initial collaboration and engineering through fabrication, testing, blasting, and painting, all the way to the final assembly. The team also takes care of all the related components, such as skids, ladders, platforms and piping.
MES
MES, Inc. delivers complete supply chain management solutions that allow North American OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to outsource the entire manufacturing process. The Columbus, Ohio-based business maintains offices in China, India, and Mexico, giving the company easy access to high quality manufacturers.
City of Shelton , CT
Shelton, Connecticut is making headlines for its low cost of living. “We are the most affordable place in Connecticut,” says Mayor Mark Lauretti. “And we are consistently and historically affordable. When you don’t raise your taxes for eight years, or your mil rates either stay the same or go down 19 years out of the past 26 years, I’d say you’re pretty consistent, pretty predictable.”
National Safety Council
The National Safety Council (NSC) has an invaluable mission: to eliminate preventable deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the road. The membership-based organization accomplishes its goals through leadership, research, education and advocacy. After profiling the Council in June 2015, Business in Focus sat down with President and CEO Deborah Hersman this month to hear the latest developments.
Taylor-Winfield Technologies, Inc.
Original equipment manufacturer Taylor-Winfield designs and builds next generation machinery for a wide range of market-leading, advanced manufacturers. The family-owned, Ohio-based business delivers unique solutions that are individually designed for a specific application, giving customers a significant competitive edge and long-term cost savings.
Cascade Controls
Cascade Controls Inc. (CCI) delivers value-added automation, manufacturing, and engineering services. “Our goal is to partner with equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who require the development, innovation, and the manufacturing of products/systems that deliver results,” summarizes Adam Keser, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
City of Columbia, SC
“Columbia is a rising city in the New South,” says Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin. He and other local leaders have an ambitious vision for this vibrant, up-and-coming state capital. “We want to be the most talented, educated, and entrepreneurial city in America. And we are making the investments required to make that vision a reality.”
Williams County, OH
Williams County, Ohio is no stranger to success. The community has been home to a vibrant manufacturing sector for decades. “We have been making things in northwest Ohio for a long time; we are not new to the manufacturing game or the large employer game,” says Matt Davis, Executive Director of the Williams County Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO).
City of Prince Albert, SK
When Business in Focus profiled Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in June 2015, the city was in the midst of redeveloping its Official Community Plan. Since then, Prince Albert has begun implementing the new plan—as well as several other notable initiatives.
Town of Chelmsford, MA
Chelmsford, Massachusetts lies at the intersection of Interstate 495 and Route 3, providing excellent access to bustling New England markets. Established in 1655, the town is located roughly halfway between Boston and Nashua, New Hampshire, within the region’s thriving research and bioscience sectors. In addition to professional opportunities, the location gives Chelmsford’s 34,000 residents easy access to the region’s largest city, the New England seacoast, and New Hampshire’s scenic mountains.
Rough Brothers
Rough Brothers has been designing, engineering, manufacturing, and installing greenhouses for 80 years. The Cincinnati-based business creates its custom greenhouses for a variety of customers including commercial growers, retail garden centers, research facilities, universities, and schools.
Champion Power Equipment
Champion Power Equipment has earned a reputation for designing and producing the market’s finest power equipment. To date, the company has sold over 2.5 million generators in North America, making the business an undisputed leader in the field.
ACO Polymer Products
Since introducing modular trench drainage solutions to America nearly forty years ago, ACO has grown into a multi-site manufacturing and sales operation with a full line of drainage products for all aspects of building and construction. The company also delivers related services, from continuing education and specification advice to installation support.
CPM Century Extrusion
Century Extrusion is a leading global supplier of highly engineered twin screw extrusion systems as well as high performance process section components. The Michigan based company delivers a complete range of products, from single machines to entire turnkey production plants.
Fabricators and Manufacturers Association
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association International® (FMA) is a professional organization with more than 2,500 individual and company members working together to improve the metal processing, forming and fabricating industry.
Millhouse Logistics
In 2009, North Carolina-based entrepreneur Tony Radchishin recognized a gap in the market and launched Millhouse Logistics as a two-man show out of his Ashville garage. His aim was to provide a better shipping option for local businesses…
Lewis County, NY
Lewis County has launched a new marketing campaign that sums up the community in just two words: ‘Naturally Lewis’. “We are the natural choice to do business because of our natural resources, the dedicated people who live here, and the good quality of life,” explains Marketing Specialist Brittany Berrus.
Southern Tier Economic Growth
Chemung County, New York is in the midst of an exciting, multipronged revitalization effort. Located in the middle of the state’s Southern Tier region, the county and its surrounding communities have won several development awards in recent years that will fund a series of promising projects.
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A Look at Perinatal Care in Canada
Canada is recognized as part of the developed world where quality of life standards are high, but this reputation is slowly (or quickly, depending on your experience) sinking into decline. This is true of social determinants of health like education, housing, food insecurity, and especially health care, particularly for women, women of colour, and low-income individuals.
WBE Canada
Dedicated to enabling and supporting the growth of women entrepreneurs, Women Business Enterprises Canada Council (WBE Canada) is a Canadian non-profit organization that is opening doors for Canadian women-owned businesses to supply chains across Canada, North America and globally.
Calhoun Super Structure
From a single concept to an international manufacturing company specializing in engineered fabric buildings, Calhoun Super Structure provides more than a century of collective expertise from a team of experienced professionals who bring leadership and accountability to every project.
Mack Kirk Roofing & Sheet Metal
Christina and Gino Laplante, owners of Mack Kirk Roofing & Sheet Metal Ltd. bring passion to their team and customers. The results prove that nothing wins in life like being genuine.
Netchem
In the world of international specialty chemical procurement and distribution, Netchem Inc. serves hundreds of manufacturing customers, from independently-owned businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Netchem enables its customers to build and expand solid supply chains, striving to act as an extension of their procurement and distribution departments. And while bigger competitors had difficulties during the supply chain nightmare of recent years, Netchem fulfilled many urgent requests for material while increasing its standard three-month inventory holding period to support customers’ production schedules.
ArquitectonicaSTUDIO
Despite its relatively young age, ArquitectonicaSTUDIO is an established, interdisciplinary voice on the Miami architecture scene that has proven to be a dynamic and capable collaborator across a host of project types and sizes, unafraid of exploring creativity and novelty. As part of Arquitectonica, the ArquitectonicaSTUDIO team specializes in boutique-style projects incorporating interior and landscape design while benefitting from being an integrated part of the greater ecosystem and community creativity of its parent company.
