SUPPLIERS’ NOTES (July 01, 1987)

SEW-Eurodrive Co. of Canada, based in Bramalea, Ont., has opened its third Canadian plant, in Lasalle, Que. The new facility offers the Quebec mining industry its choice of more than two million different types and ratings of power transmission products. The plant is part of Eurodrive’s international network of five manufacturing plants and 31 assembly centres. Among the products manufactured are gears and shafts.

Fisher Controls International’s ninth North American service facility is being established in Los Angeles, Calif., to provide local service to Fisher’s west coast customers. The new operation will provide repair services for control valves, regulators and related equipment.

Canadian Investment Capital (cic) has signed letters of intent to purchase Du Pont Canada’s explosives business and that of its parent company, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., in the U.S. Cic is a financial investment and holding company formed to acquire operating assets and management in the U.S. and Canada. Last November it acquired Du Pont’s woven polyolefins business which, along with the explosives operation, operates out of North Bay, Ont.

Contor Holdings recently announced the addition to its holdings in the U.S. and Canada of Dorr-Oliver Inc. of Stamford, Conn., and its Canadian subsidiary, Dorr- Oliver Canada of Orillia, Ont., from the Kennecott Corp. Kennecott is a subsidiary of Standard Oil of Ohio. The addition of Dorr-Oliver to Contor Holdings will increase its annual sales to about $2 billion. On May 1, Dorr-Oliver Canada became a totally independent Canadian- owned company and is no longer a subsidiary of Dorr- Oliver Inc.

A contract has been awarded to Dravo Wellman Co. (a division of Dravo Corp.) to supply a continuous coal barge unloader for the Wm. Zimmer Power Plant at Moscow, Ohio. The unloader is a single-head continuous bucket ladder type, designed to accommodate high water levels, having a 4,000-tpd free-digging rate. Dravo Wellman is also supplying a shuttle barge haul system to operate in concert with the unloader. Dravo Wellman’s scope includes design and detail engineering, supply and start-up of the equipment.

Ottawa-based Bondar-Clegg & Co. has set up a mineral- testing laboratory in Bedford, N.S., in response to the increase in gold exploration in Nova Scotia. The geochemical and assay laboratory will be the only full-service commercial geochemical and asssay laboratory in the province. Currently, exploration companies must send their samples out of the province for testing. Bondar-Clegg will prepare samples at the Bedford lab for shipment to its Ottawa lab.

Toronto-based Davis Controls has appointed several new distributors who will handle its lines of instrumentation and control equipment in British Columbia. From its technical centre in Edmonton, Alta., Davis Controls provides engineering assistance to engineering groups.