Business View Magazine | April 2021

47 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE APRIL 2021 MA I BEC family invited the Fonds de Solidarité FTQ, a development capital fund, to join and invest in Maibec as a minority shareholder. The company developed in two core businesses. A pair of lumber sawmills – one in Quebec and one in Maine – was the lumber division. The second core business was exterior siding. In 2018, the company sold the lumber arm and now maintains a robust presence as a specialist in factory-stained exterior siding in both solid wood and wood-engineered substrates. Tardif acknowledges, “What’s interesting is that in Quebec our brand name is recognized as the