Recognizing growing opportunities in America’s lumber market, Vaughn Woodward (Woody) and Keith Messamaker came together to create Frontier Forest Products in November 2005. Much has changed in the...
Services
Bringing Together Performance and Sustainability
Bringing Together Performance and Sustainability
When it comes to sustainability, SFA Saniflo Canada, with the support of its parent company SFA Group, takes its commitment seriously. The provision of clean water and adequate sanitation is...
CCRM/OmniaBio
Serving Tomorrow’s Patients Today
The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), established in 2011, was into its second decade of business when it officially spun off its subsidiary Omniabio Inc.: a...
AVFX
People Plus Technology Equals AV Production Success
For Matt Emerson, successfully staging conferences, meetings, trade shows, and other events is about more than just using the latest AV technology; it is about having the right ideas and the right...
Endurance Poly Producers
Piping Hot—and Growing
At home in Tennille, Georgia, Endurance Poly Producers is a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) conduit and piping systems fabricator that has shipped to every state in the United States. After saving...
Curecrete
Lifelong Solutions That Enhance Spaces and Enrich Lives
Curecrete Distribution is the original concrete densification company. Its flagship products, Ashford Formula™ and RetroPlate®, were the first to market of their kind and continue to lead the way as...
ICI Homes
Enhancing Lives. Expanding What’s Possible.
After 45 years in the construction industry, ICI Homes, headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida, has honed its skills and niche to fine perfection. Leading its unique market segment with...
Projection
Where People Come First
Projection provides a customized solution for any event. As a full-service, nationwide event production company, this business delivers event production design and services including presentation...
Cloward H2O
This Aquatic Engineering Firm Stands for High Standards and Big Fun
Based in Lindon, Utah, Cloward H2O has brought its aquatic engineering skills to water parks, aquariums, splash pads, fountains, white water rafting sites, and the world’s deepest swimming pool,...
Makloc
Buildings That Work Where Most Buildings Won’t
For over 50 years, Alberta-based Makloc has served the building needs of customers in oil and gas, commercial and industrial, and the renewable energy sector. Known for quality, customer service,...
Bespoke Audio Visual
Toronto Firm Stages Live Events and Offers Cutting-Edge Studio Services
Bespoke Audio Visual provides the technical equipment and staff needed to stage parties, galas, conferences, meetings, festivals, convocations, and other gatherings. In addition to staging events,...
Pro-Formance Intermodal, Inc.
Transforming Transportation
Transportation and logistics is a high-stakes industry—even more so where intermodal shipping is involved. That is why those in need of an asset-based industry expert with a backbone of steel have...
All American Recycling
Recycling Excellence
At All American Recycling, top service standards in scrap metal and waste recycling are guaranteed, which explains this company’s impressive list of longstanding clients in a robust market. While...
Accurate Converter
Metals of Honor – Perfecting the Recycling Process
One of the metal recycling sector’s largest buyers, processors, and recyclers of automotive and industrial catalysts, spark plugs, and oxygen sensors, Accurate Converter was established in 2005,...
Buffalo Creek Mills
“Our Food Is Good Food”
An exceptional product begins with an exceptional producer. As a Canadian oat processor and ingredient supplier located in the heart of prime oat-growing country in Altona, Manitoba, just five...
Swish Maintenance Limited
Keeping Canada Shining
As COVID-19 reminded the world of the importance of good hygiene, family-owned and operated Swish Maintenance Limited stepped in to help protect the nation with a high-value offering that helps its...
Star Cartage
Trusted Service and Family Values
For almost 50 years, Star Cartage has provided first-class transportation and logistics services to its many customers worldwide. Building on the foundation set in place by truck driver and...
J. Pettiecord, Inc.
A Premier Specialty Contractor
Known as one of the Midwest’s premier specialty contractors, J. Pettiecord, Inc. handles large-scale land clearing, environmental remediation, demolition, wood waste grinding, railroad services,...
Labrie Environmental Group
Often Copied, Never Duplicated
In business, there are imitators and there are innovators, and the Labrie name is known worldwide for its pioneering solid waste industry trucks. Respected for groundbreaking designs and exceptional...
LAVA Computer MFG. Inc.
Premium Mobile Solutions Made in Canada
For nearly forty years, LAVA Computer MFG. Inc. has steadily positioned its products and capabilities at the fore of the market, where it became recognized for its offerings and the service it...
AGF Group Inc.
Reinforcing the Future Since 1948
1948 was a quiet year in Canadian history—but a good one. With prosperity returning to the country, nation-building was underway, and businesses of all stripes were busy shaping what the future was...
Coreslab Structures (OKLA) Inc.
Prestressed, Precast – and it Tops a Tornado in an Eco-Friendly Way
By advancing the science of precast and prestressed concrete, Coreslab Structures (OKLA) is developing a new generation of tornado shelters with unbeatable advantages. Part of a family of 17...
Kildare Fisheries
From the Ocean to Your Plate
For 30 years, Kildare Fisheries of Kildare, PEI has been laser-focused on getting top-quality seafood, including pasteurized Jonah crab and lobster, under the Kildare Princess brand, to Global...
Bell and Howell
Doing the Right Thing
Technology-enabled field services company Bell and Howell services a wide range of automation equipment for multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and markets across North America. We...
Design Systems Canada, Ltd.
Helping Manufacturers Manufacture Better
When it comes to manufacturing engineering across North America, Design Systems defines excellence. While many manufacturers believe they have what it takes to self-engineer their process solutions,...
Access Labels
Printing Perfection With Service, Speed and Flexibility
So much can happen to a business within a 30-year span, and for Access Labels those years have meant an incredible amount of growth, experience and success. From Access Labels’ humble beginnings...
RNOW, Inc.
Sweeping the American Midwest: 30 Years in Sanitation Equipment
While the sparkling cities of the United States may be the envy of many municipalities and citizens around the world, the cleanliness can often be tougher to achieve than many people may realize....
AIM National
Installation Solutions that Make the Difficult Easy
For over forty years, AIM has provided FE&S (Foodservice, Equipment and Supplies) clients with a seamless installation process, from equipment shipment through to completion. The Columbus,...
KNOLL America Inc.
Post-Fabrication Metal Reimagined
Machine tool providers and metal fabricators know that dealing with post-fabrication metal leftovers can be challenging. Therefore, a trustworthy partner that can provide high-performance technology...
Elementum 3D
Pushing the Limits of Additive Manufacturing
Simply stated, Elementum 3D is unique in the formulation of advanced metals, alloys, ceramics and metal matrix composite powders for the additive manufacturing (AM) sector. In reality, what this...
Xfinity Freight Systems
Celebrating 10 Years in Business with a New Ecosystem
U.S.-based logistics and transportation company Xfinity Freight Systems serves North America and many parts of Europe. Since its inception a decade ago, Xfinity has slowly but surely added...
Caglia Environmental
High-Tech Sustainability
After profiling Caglia Environmental in March 2017, Business in Focus is checking back in to learn about the company’s facility upgrades, continued sustainability efforts, and ongoing connection to...
Big Country Raw
Ten Years of Progress in Raw Pet Food Manufacturing
In most Canadian homes, pets are considered to be part of the family, and their humans make every effort to care for their wellbeing. Living through a pandemic has changed the way people look at...
Unisource Solutions
Strategy with Analytics, Design, Services and Made to Order Product Solutions
For over 30 years, Unisource Solutions, headquartered in Los Angeles California and providing solutions nationwide, has assembled one of the most comprehensive and trusted packages of workplace...
Seagate Construction
Serving Atlantic Canada
For almost 20 years, Seagate Construction Inc. has provided customers in Canada’s Atlantic provinces with a rare level of service on projects from spas to restaurant renovations, and breweries to...
Contemporary Office Interiors (COI)
Big Expansion Means Enhanced Client Service
Contemporary Office Interiors (COI) has gone national following a merger and acquisition that dramatically extended the contract furniture firm’s market reach. Announced on February 1, the merger...
Massage Addict Inc.
Kneadful Things: Putting the Rest in Stressed
Whether used for injury rehabilitation, sports therapy, relaxation or mental health support, an effective massage performed by a reliable professional remains an overwhelmingly popular choice of...
MultiCam
Merging Talent and Technology
After profiling MultiCam in May 2021, Business in Focus has circled back to hear what has happened over the ensuing year. As it turns out, the company has big news, from an exciting change in...
Sloan Security Group
A Family Business Taken to New Heights
Security solutions firm Sloan Security Group is based in Boise, Idaho and serves the greater United States and U.S. Embassies overseas. It began in 1991 as a family forestry construction business of...
HIPOWER SYSTEMS
Power to the People: Building QUALITY Generators
HIPOWER SYSTEMS harnesses the power of its international parent companies while remaining small enough to give customers a level of personal service and American-made quality that are hard to come...
Strait Crossing Bridge Ltd.
The 25-Year Link
The 12.9 km (8.9-mile) Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland is a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway that crosses the Northumberland Strait. But that doesn’t begin to...
CleanMark
Keeping Clients Safe
In the time between the early reports of a mysterious virus surfacing at a Chinese seafood market in December of 2019 to the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic the following...
Dustbane
Bringing New Meaning to Cleaning
The pandemic has taught us much: domestic manufacturing is critical; cleanliness is vital against infection; and we must care for each other and our environment. These are the things Dustbane,...
Unimanix/Pax Innovations
This Intelligent Spray Technology Out-Thinks Infection
The world has become very familiar with the importance of disinfecting as of late, but long before the pandemic arrived, Montreal’s Unimanix Industry Company was busy perfecting clever technology to...
METech Recycling
A True Partner in Security and Sustainability
For outdated assets, it should never be a case of ‘out of use, out of mind.’ How are they disposed of and what is being done to prevent information and data falling into the wrong hands? Time to...
Shape Corp.
Weathering the Storm
Full-service impact energy management supplier Shape Corp. specializes in multi-material solutions, including steel, aluminum, plastics, composites and hybrid solutions. While its global...
Radius Security
Sounding the Alarm
At times, it may seem that crime does pay. But with a proven high rate of arrests, Radius Security’s top-notch systems make crime far less lucrative by making it far less attractive – so its clients...
The Lixi Group
Making Good Experiences Great
Dedicating almost 30 years of his life to the hospitality industry, Michael Percaccio knows a thing or two about elevating guest experiences, taking them from the ordinary to the extraordinary....