AlbertaMetal.ca is an Alberta industry-based website designed to offer the metal fabricating and manufacting community a comprehensive resource for commerce: from opportunities and market news, to associations and directories, to events and productivity issues.
Albertametal.ca is designed to be a clearinghouse of important industry information and is provided on a free and timely basis. Albertmetal.ca is a virtual organization led by industry and government and operated by the private sector.
The vision of this metal fabrication website is:
- To allow business to business contacts
- To enhance business to customer contacts
- To provide market information including oil and gas
- To connect with productivity tools and information
- To find business improvement techniques
- To provide an Alberta event calendar
We are interested in your feedback and direction to make this a highly valuable resource for businesses in the metal fabrication sector.
Alberta’s Metal Fabrication Sector
 Alberta has a strong and large metal fabrication sector with over 1300 companies and 30,000 employees. Revenues in the sector are over $10 billion and the growth has been very strong over the last 5 years with the extensive oil and gas investments, infrastructure and other new construction in the province and elsewhere.
The sector has much growth potential and resource needs:
- Skilled and unskilled labour for the many projects expected in Western Canada and elsewhere
- Productivity tools in lean manufacturing, design software and in manufacturing processes
- Access to competitive raw materials, tools and business processes
- Market and business information
- Global partners and market opportunities.
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Oilsands Review
August 10, 2010
A look inside MEG Energy and its Christina Lake SAGD project as the oilsands junior seeks to be public
Eleven years ago, before the concept of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) was officially deemed commercial, and the in situ oilsands industry was far off the radar of the world, William McCaffrey started a little company incorporated as McCaffrey Energy Group.
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Japan Canada Oil Sands’ coming expansion builds on one of longest company histories in the in situ oilsands sector |
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Oilsands Review
At the end of April, Japan Canada Oil Sands (JACOS) applied for a $1.2-billion, 35,000-barrel-per-day expansion to its current steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operation, one of the longest running projects of its kind. The submission came some seven years later than the original target date of 2003, but a lot has happened in the intervening years, both within JACOS and in the oilsands industry. Then again, what is plus or minus seven years to a company that is celebrating 32 years of involvement in Canada’s oilsands?
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National Steel Design Award Winners Announced |
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Alberta Construction Magazine
Two Alberta projects were among the winners of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction’s-ICCA National Steel Design Awards competition. Nearly 100 projects competed and were evaluated for recognition of outstanding design, construction and innovation from the steel industry with six winners from the 16 showcased project submissions selected in the architecture, engineering and sustainability categories.
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Supply For The Saavy Investor |
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PetroChina’s successful oilsands acquisition last fall set the stage for billions in Asian investment
Oilsands Review
Sinopec’s $4.65-billion pitch to grab a nine per cent stake in the world’s single largest source of synthetic crude oil—Syncrude—has speculators running at full tilt on the potential implications of what would be the largest transaction of its kind in history.
That Asia wants in to the Alberta oilsands is no secret, and no surprise. It is its motivations and the impending repercussions that are up for debate. Is the latest move by China into Canadian bitumen positioning for a supply connection, or a manoeuvre by sophisticated investors who recognize the importance of the play on a global scale? It is becoming clear that the answer is both.
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