The Made in Manitoba series from the Winnipeg Free Press – a CentrePort Canada Partner – tells the back story of homegrown business success stories. Two recent stories are of CentrePort companies RockGlass and NJ Industries. Here are previews of both articles.
Transparent Strength
CentrePort Canada-based ClearSecure Manufacturing & Distribution pitches protection premier product RockGlass
It’s not unusual for staff at ClearSecure Manufacturing & Distribution to encourage people to take a baseball bat or sledgehammer to the company’s signature product.
As far as visuals go, it’s a striking one. The company manufactures and distributes crystal clear security panels for windows and doors known as RockGlass.
“We’re a solution for broken glass,” says Colleen Munro, the company’s founder and president. “That’s kind of our catchphrase.”
PHOTO: BROOK JONES / FREE PRESS
ClearSecure Manufacturing & Distribution fabricator Braeden Hay measures a panel of RockGlass while working at the company’s headquarters at CentrePort Canada (8-3149 Red Fife Rd.) in the RM of Rosser.
Read the full article here.
ClearSecure is part of The Munro Group, a collection of development-focused businesses and a CentrePort Canada Partner.
Crafting Extended Family
Custom metal fabrication firm NJ Industries Inc. builds reputation on customer loyalty
Dirk Hollar and his colleagues don’t give out awards to the businesses they work with, but if they did, the “No. 1 Vendor” award would go to NJ Industries Inc.
Hollar is the operations manager at Freedom Concepts Inc., a Winnipeg company that creates bicycles for individuals with limited mobility. When Hollar needed a small order of sprockets made a few years ago, someone suggested he check out NJ Industries, a custom metal fabrication facility headquartered in the CentrePort Canada development on the northwest edge of Winnipeg.
PHOTO: MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
A laser cutter at work on a sheet of steel at the NJ Industries Inc. shop at 30 Harvest Dr. The company recently completed a $1.5 million expansion to its facilities, which allowed it to add a HSG TS2 tube laser.
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