Schauenburg offers customers a turnkey solution
Along with the success Schauenburg Industries of North Bay has enjoyed in supplying ventilation solutions for Northern Ontario’s mining industry, the company is also enjoying success with the tunneling side of the business.
It means Schauenburg is bringing fresh air to companies that create specialized tunnel projects for underground mass transit and municipal sewer and water projects. The company has a big contract to supply ventilation ducting and related products for the 19-kilometre Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit line for the Crosslinx consortium in Toronto, a $5.3 billion project that runs underground for 10 kilometres. It is also providing ventilation ducting for a British Columbia Hydro tunnel expansion project on the Peace River in the northeastern part of that province as well as a light rail project in Ottawa.
Managing director Don Croteau said the company is having success with its turnkey solution for these specialized projects because the customer doesn’t have to search out extra components on a complex ventilation job.
“We can supply the heaters, the fans, the rigid ducting and the flexible ducting that goes down the tunnel,” Croteau said.
“Customers like that because it makes their job easy. They don’t have to be dealing with five suppliers. We are working on other projects like that now the same way,” he added.
Croteau said Schauenburg has established partnerships with several companies that manufacture separate components for ventilation systems, including fan silencers, dust collectors and even monitors that detect carbon monoxide and methane gas.
Croteau said part of Schauenburg’s success over the years has been adapting to change in the industry with solutions such as its turnkey program.
