Reaching Milestones
Postech Screw Piles marks its millionth pile with
a donation to Habitat for Humanity Manitoba
Milestones are wonderful markers for businesses
to note how far they’ve come and to set the pace
for future achievements. Whether it be years in
service, a notable duration with no time-loss
incidents or all team members completing a training initiative,
there are many reasons to celebrate in the Canadian deep
foundations industry.
Another notable milestone for deep foundations companies:
the number of piles installed. Albeit, this may be a difficult
number to keep track of for various reasons. However,
one company did and, it’s safe to say, they’ve reached an
impressive milestone. On June 13, Sherbrooke, Quebecbased
Postech Screw Piles installed their one millionth pile
in Canada at a Habitat for Humanity Manitoba job site in
Winnipeg, Man.
This past summer, Postech packed an RV and embarked
on a cross-Canada road trip to meet the Postech Nation. “Our
team here, they came up with the idea that if we were to travel
Canada from coast to coast, we would be in a position to
introduce our dealers from coast to coast to our customer
base and promote what we do and who we are,” said Jean
Routhier, Eng., M.Sc.A, president and CEO of Postech Screw
Piles in a telephone interview with Piling Canada.
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On each stop of the road trip, the five-person (and one
dog) Postech RV crew met with a Postech distributor at
a noteworthy job site to “showcase something that we’ve
accomplished, a project that we are proud of, as well as our
involvement in the community; a local flavour of what it is
that we do, how we are involved,” said Routhier. All of the job
site visits are on the Postech Road Trip blog.
When determining the logistics of the road trip, it became
apparent that the timeline for Postech to reach its millionth
pile installation would coincide with the Winnipeg stop.
Where to install the pile?
Postech has a long relationship with Habitat for Humanity,
a non-profit that helps build affordable homes, which stems
from Postech’s own distributors. “We have a few of our dealers
that are working with them,” said Routhier.
“We will grow our relationship with them because it
makes sense. The fact that we offer a foundation at a reasonable
price makes construction for them cheaper at the end of
the day, which makes more housing available for the people
they serve.”
Partnering with Habitat for Humanity Manitoba, Postech
donated the one millionth – golden – pile to Habitat’s first set
of condos to be built in a suburb of Winnipeg.
By Lindsay Risto
PHOTOS: POSTECH SCREW PILES
Stan Higgins installs Postech Screw Pile’s millionth pile in Winnipeg, Man.
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