Cenovus Outgrowing Expanded Fabrication Yard
Cenovus Energy Inc. has so many in situ oilsands projects in its "hopper" it may have to increase its recently expanded module fabrication capacity again.The company has applications for three in situ oilsands projects in regulators' hands. It recently expanded by 50 per cent its...
Read More..
Drilling and Service Rig Fabrication
Could the best year ever be just around the corner for this Alberta industry?
Alberta’s rig manufacturing sector was no exception to the steep downturn in fabrication activity that followed in the wake of the global credit crunch in the fall of 2008. But a healthy...
Read More..
Bracing For The Boom
As Alberta’s fabricators continue to recover from the last recession, and as orders come in and activity steadily ramps up amid prospects of an oilsands construction boom in the second and third quarters of 2012, optimism has swept across much of the sector, says Bob...
Read More..
AlbertaMetal.ca - Metal Fabrication Portal
Alberta Metal - Home
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.
Fabrication Focus
Name of Company: Greenglade Construction Ltd.
City: Provost
Number of Employees: 3
If you’ve ever spent time outside Alberta’s cities you’ve probably heard the term Texas Gate. And you probably know that a Texas Gate is different from a conventional gate—not to mention far more convenient because you don’t have to get out of your vehicle to open and close it. Yet the cattle still can’t get out.