Business View Magazine | September 2019

308 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 BVM: Could you give an overview of operations at Contro Valve? Wilson: “The company has been in business for 42 years. We have offices across eastern Canada and our main office for handling the nuclear business is in Burlington, Ontario due to the Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and Bruce Power plants being close by. New Brunswick Power is run locally, but they feed all technical matters and questions back through the Burlington office. We’re the appointed representative for Consolidated and Mason-Neilan equipment to the nuclear market in Canada and we started selling Consolidated safety relief valves and Mason-Neilan control valves to Bruce Power and OPG in 1995. There’s a large installed base of those valves in OPG, Bruce Power, and New Brunswick Electric Power, so we immediately started to service that, but our qualifications, at the time, in relation to handling nuclear orders, needed some work.” Fournier: “Originally, our Contro Valve quality program was ISO9001. When we first started dealing with the nuclear industry in 1995, we only handled commercial products – mainly because the manufacturer had a presence here in Canada and had all their ASME code and CSA requirements to handle the nuclear products for the sites, so they did that, directly. When that presence ceased in 2004, we had to augment our quality program to meet the CSAZ299.3 program, initially, so we could handle supplying most products to the sites in Canada. “Since then, we’ve increased our capabilities more, actually at the request of the end users. We’re now capable of handling nuclear code material in our