Business View Magazine | July 2019

390 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 BC Instruments Keeping commitments B C Instruments, headquartered in Schomberg, Ontario, has been providing precision machine parts and assembly solutions to its customers in the aerospace, plastic injection molding, medical, nuclear, and electronic industries since 1971. The company was founded by Bruno Conzelmann, who, according to his son Roger, the company’s current President, began the business with two manual machines in the one-car garage of the family’s home. “He had come from Germany in 1957 and worked for a number of years at machine shops, working his way up,” Roger recounts. “He had an entrepreneurial spirit and recognized an opportunity to start something on his own, so he took the plunge. He was looking to do smaller precision parts, ideally in the aerospace industry. He had been working in Toronto, and had a few contacts with companies that he had worked with, and saw the opportunity to provide better customer service and to make life easier for the customer. His motto was ‘look for an opportunity, make a commitment, and keep the commitment.’ And, if he did that, then he’d continue to get opportunities. So, that’s been our mode of operation, all along.” Today, BC Instruments, which specializes in the manufacture of components and assemblies requiring close tolerances, has its company headquarters and four plants in Schomberg, two buildings in the town of Orillia, and a recently- purchased building close to where Bruce Power has begun refurbishing six of its eight nuclear reactors. “We bought a building where we’ll be doing some kitting and, eventually, some manufacturing,” Roger says. “So, now, we have seven buildings in Ontario; we have about 150 people, and our sales hit $30 million last year.” Roger explains that the company’s business model for each of its five divisions is to work with a few companies on a long-term basis, with Quality