Suppliers’ Notes (October 04, 1990)

Intera Information Technologogs Corp. of Calgary, Alta. is acquiring certain assets of the Aero Service division of Western Atlas International, a unit of Dresser Industries and Litton Industries. Intera will purchase the contracts and assets used by Aero Service in its digital mapping, airborne radar businesses. Revenues of the businesses to be acquired by Intera were about US$7 million in 1989.

Kenroc Tools Corp. of North Bay, Ont. is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The company manufactures a complete line of hard-rock drill bits and accessories for use in the construction, metallic and nonmetallic mining industries. Its products are primarily used in drilling blast holes in hard rock for a variety of applications utilizing a number of drilling methods — principally hammer or percussive drilling.

Howden Group Canada of Scarborough, Ont. has sold two grinding mills to Europe’s largest copper producer, RTB-Bor of Yugoslavia. EDC is providing a US$3.2-million loan to the buyer.

Marac Enterprises of Toronto has formed a co-operative link with two European companies — Design 4 Expo, an exhibition and graphic design company in the U.K., and 4 Expo’s associate international freight forwarding company in the Netherlands. This association brings to Canadian and U.S. clients of Marac the benefit of specialist services for European exhibitions and conferences. Under a reciprocal arrangement, Marac will oversee exhibition production and installation for European companies exhibiting in Canada and the U.S.

Westar Mining’s Balmer coal operation, in British Columbia’s Elk Valey, has won the top award at the the 14th Annual Mine Reclamation Symposium, held in Cranbrook, B.C. in June. Reclamation programs by three other B.C. companies were recognized as well. Other recipients include Total Energold Coop. (metal mining citation), Quintette Coal (coal mining and exploration citations) and Queenstake Resources (placer mine citation).

Norguard Safety Equipment & Clothing of Elliot Lake, Ont. has introduced a miners’ safety belt designed to reduce back-related injuries. It is already being used at operations of both Denison Mines and Rio Algom. Inquiries should be mailed to the company at Box 506, Elliot Lake, Ont. Or phone (705) 848-6855.

Bondar-Clegg & Co. has opened a sample preparation facility and pickup service centre in Boise, Idaho, with an attendant sample drop-off point at Stor-Mor Mini Storage in Oregon, Ont. At the facility, biogeochemical analysis is performed on rock, drill core and cuttings, soil, stream sediment and pan concentrates, and vegetation. Turnaround, including sample preparation, lab analysis and data return, is about seven to 10 days for most sample types.

Over the past two years, Getman Corp. has supplied a fleet of equipment to Falconbridge Ltd.’s Fraser mine. These include a scaler, two ANFO trucks and three scissor lift trucks. All the equipment is on the 44th level, the deepest level of the mine, where ramp access cut-and-fill is used to extract ore. The new 4-wheel-drive equipment fills the need for vehicles able to negotiate the level’s ramps. Before buying the articulated ANFO trucks, Falconbridge charged the holes using smaller loaders. These smaller loaders did not offer the capacities desired for efficient operation. The new ANFO vehicles have been in operation for nearly 18 months.