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contamination from black carbon dust and provide what it says is quality unmatched in the industry. Salit's facility in Niagara Falls, New York is a premier stainless steel rebar supplier and fabricator in North Amer- ica. Because the facility is so close to the Canadian border and to major freight lanes, Salit can ship orders of any size to locations throughout North America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. Building Relationships LMS Reinforcing Steel Group (LMS) is considered to be a leading fabricator and installer of reinforcing steel and post-tensioning in Western Canada and is setting the bar high. The com- pany provides products and services to the residential, commercial, institu- tional and infrastructure construction sectors. "Through our efforts to improve cli- ent experience, LMS has set the industry standard for customer service and pro- ductivity on a job site," says Norm Streu, LMS president and COO. "This formula is a key to our success since the company was founded in 1998." Streu says LMS takes a full-service approach to its projects. "We use our own crews for the fabrication and installation of rebar and post-tensioning on our projects," he says. With a head office and six-acre fabri- cating yard located in Surrey, B.C. LMS details, fabricates and supplies steel to its projects across B.C. "We also have a six-acre yard, 25,000-square-foot enclosed fabrication facility in south- east Calgary," Streu says. "From there we ser vice our projects in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba." LMS manufactures post-tensioning cable at a separate 10,000-square-foot facility in Surrey. Streu says LMS has been gaining recognition for business excellence and commitment to quality project delivery. "We have been recog- nized as one of Canada's best-managed companies since 2011," he says. Sherwood Steel Limited in Alberta supplies and installs rebar and welded wire mesh to customers in Western Canada, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Sherwood spokesman, Duane Kotun, says the company works with a wide range of contractors. "We are focused on the infrastruc- ture, commercial and residential seg- ments of the market," says Kotun. "We work with a wide range of contractors, from large to small, across each of these segments." Kotun says Sherwood likes to keep its customer base small, so that it can provide the best possible service and create loyal customers for repeat busi- ness. "We focus on service," Kotun says. "We want to be the company that can get the product to the work site on time to meet the contractors needs wherever possible. We try to see ourselves as a partner, rather than just a supplier to contractors." Two of Sherwood's recently com- pleted projects are the ATCO electric transmission line between the Alberta towns of Brooks and Gibbons, and the Escapes residential development in Edmonton. The company is currently nearing completion of the Edson Health and Continuing Care Centre. ■ The company supplies and installs rein- forcing steel for any market. To prevent the deterioration of concrete reinforced structures, Har- ris Rebar provides a full range of corrosion-resistant reinforcing prod- ucts, including epox y-coated rebar, galvanized rebar, stainless steel rebar, and fibreglass rebar, to complement its large inventories of black rebar. Harris Rebar has supplied and installed rebar on a number of major construction projects across Canada including the Port Mann Highway Project 1 in Vancouver, Calgary West Light Rail Transit and The Bow in Calgary. In fact, the foundation of The Bow used 2,500 tonnes of reinforcing steel, 15,000 pounds of tie wire and was reported to have taken two months to do the rebar work. Heritage Steel Sales Ltd. of Langley, B.C. also understands the importance of corrosion-resistant products. The com- pany makes and sells a complete line of concrete reinforcement products and thanks to a partnership with Salit Steel in Ontario, Heritage can now provide its customers with corrosion-resistant stainless steel rebar products. Heritage has a new 24,500-square- foot enclosed plant that contains three shear-lines, a conveyor system to trans- port material from the shear to any one of three table benders, a stirrup bender, radius machine, and a spiral machine. Above the shear lines are four wire- lessly-controlled cranes. "Our state-of-the-art facilit y has enabled Heritage to fabricate products for a wide variety of projects while maintaining a high level of quality and service," says Martin Gobin, Heritage president. To optimize customer service, Heri- tage owns it own trucks – tandem, tridem and super-B trailers. "We're specialists," says Gobin. "We're large enough to take on any project, but small enough to provide excellent service to our customers." Gobin adds that his company's recent partnership with Salit Steel is work- ing out well. "It's succeeding because Heritage has the local business knowl- edge and Salit has the infrastructure and more than 100 years of business experience." Reducing Waste Salit Steel has been providing rebar services to the construction industry in southern Ontario for 50 years. Through its affiliated company, Salit Specialty Rebar, Salit Steel has access to the larg- est stainless rebar inventory in North America. Although the products are not yet common in Ontario, Salit provides its customers with galvanized and fibre- glass rebar. Salit Specialty Rebar stocks over one-million pounds of stainless steel rebar, enabling the company to respond to the needs of customers across North America. Salit stocks all sizes, including Imperial and metric, grades 316LN and 2205 Duplex. The company's stainless steel-only production line enables it to eliminate The Port Mann Highway Project 1. Photos courtesy British Columbia Transportation Investment Corporation. october 2014 /49 reinforcing Steel

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