Business View Magazine | September 2022

84 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 9 1565 Stevens Rd West Kelowna, BC V1Z 1G3 +1 (778) 755-6700 office@vortexpneumatics.com www.vortexpneumatics.com METAL FABRICATION AND INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION Vortex Pneumatics is a leading one stop dust collection design, manufacture and installation services, with products for innovative and demanding applications in a wide range of industries. Our expert team is ready to meet all the clients’ metal manufacturing and steel products requirements and is committed to the premium customer service, the highest safety, and environmental standards. and cost of construction are so vital. For us to be able to execute and have that project come to market was really exciting.” Kalesnikoff has been growing alongside the emerging market for mass timber in North America and is already expanding to accommodate future demand. At their mass timber facility near Castlegar, British Columbia, Kalesnikoff is building a 20,000 square foot expansion and is using its own cross-laminated timber panels and glulam beams for the walls, trusses and ceiling. Over at the construction site, an employee raves about how incredible it is to build the expansion out of the company’s own product and how the new build is taking place steps away from where the mass timber was manufactured. Others pause to take photos of the mass timber trusses overhead. Using a mass timber plant to build a mass timber plant is reminiscent of the old joke about using a 3D printer to print more 3D printers. When the expansion is complete in the early spring of 2023, Chris says it will house “first-of-its-kind technology”