Foundation Deal
Equipment Sales & Service expands its product depth and
market coverage with the purchase of Selix Equipment
By Mark Halsall
Founded in 1946 and now in its third generation as a
thriving family-owned business, Equipment Sales
& Service Limited (ESS) is one of the country’s most
long-standing and established heavy equipment com-panies.
Its extensive presence in Canada’s construction mar-ket
has grown even larger with the recent purchase of Selix
Equipment Inc.
“ESS is extremely excited about this acquisition. It is a per-fect
fit for our growth strategy and will expand our footprint
in Ontario, Quebec and across Canada,” said Morgan Cronin,
president of ESS.
From its nine locations across Canada, ESS helps keep
Canada’s heavy equipment up and running by providing
customer solutions for heavy equipment, parts and service
in the construction, mining and forestry industries. In addi-tion
to its OEM product lines, the company is one of Canada’s
largest suppliers of aftermarket and wear parts and also spe-cializes
in undercarriage service.
Based in Ottawa, Selix is a successful distributor of drill-ing
and deep foundation equipment, representing a number
of product lines including Sandvik, GEAX and International
COMPANY PROFILE
Construction Equipment and, through its relationship with
ESS, Soilmec.
Selix has grown rapidly since its start in 2012, establish-ing
a strong market presence in Ontario and Quebec. The
scope of its business includes hydraulic piling rigs as well as
various sizes of drills used for ground consolidation, envi-ronmental
sampling, tiebacks, micropiles, jet grouting and
geothermal applications.
ESS is an authorized distributor for Soilmec and, accord-ing
to Cronin, Selix’s experience selling piling rigs and other
foundation construction gear manufactured by Soilmec was
a key consideration in pursuing and completing the deal.
“The core skills of Selix personnel will greatly enhance our
ability to sell and support the Soilmec line of equipment that
we represent,” said Cronin.
“With Soilmec, we have state-of-the-art technology,” said
Mario Roussel, general manager of Selix Equipment. “They
are certainly the leader of the pack in piling and drilling
equipment lineups.”
As Cronin says, the acquisition of Selix Equipment
in the fall of 2017 was also part of a larger strategic
A Soilmec SR-45 piling rig
at work during new bridge
construction near Sudbury, Ont.
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