Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 12

33 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 12 almost identical. All these companies involve manufacturing with global distribution.” BVM: What type of facilities do you operate from? Reusing: “We are moving into our fourth building in Magog, Quebec in February. It’s a 120,000 square foot factory and we are relocating there from a 60,000 square foot building, so doubling up on size. The new building also has an expansion planned for phase two with another 100,000 square feet, which will make it 220,000 square feet in total. “Our production process has a lot of robotics and our floor is completely automated. For economies of scale, we are very technologically advanced, and even though we only have 65 employees we produce thousands of tons of steel every year. We have a full engineering team, inhouse, so when a franchisee receives plans for a job, they send them to our internal engineering department and within an average of 48 hours, we send back a plan with all of the information and data they need to do the install. “About 85% of our work is in the residential sector. The other 15% is commercial; projects like wind turbines, dams, huge retaining walls, GOL I ATHTECH INC .