Business View Magazine | January 2021

48 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2021 Shifting Building Paradigms AT MCH WE BELIEVE IN BUILDING HEALTHY SPACES. The materials we choose and our focus on energy efficiencies result in long lasting structures that will be here for generations to come. To learn more visit mchqc.ca Follow us on Instagram @mchqc.ca the most fully automated manufacturing plant in the world – until someone else adds the next advanced line of equipment. When the St. Thomas plant is fully operational, it will employ 20 people just in production. In six months that will be closer to 50. Chouinard notes, “At that facility, we’re making CLT and glulam columns and beams – essentially providing the whole structure. One thing that differentiates us from some other mass timber manufacturers is that we are committed to product innovation. Most others focus on the CLT and the glulam that form the skeleton of the structure. We do that too, but we are also making prefabricated envelope panels, which we call CLIPs (cross laminated insulated panels). These panels provide a complete envelope solution comprised of a CLT panel, vapour permeable membrane insulation, and cladding. Even the windows and the doors can be preinstalled in the factory. So we’re able to offer a weathertight shell package for these buildings.”