MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (July 24, 2013) – Weir Minerals Canada opened a new 19,000 square foot service and distribution operation in Fort McMurray to support customers in the Athabasca Oil Sands in Canada.
The distribution operation has been relocated to a new facility in the MacKenzie Industrial Park.
This facility will support customers in the Athabasca Oil Sands with a much larger presence for customer service/order entry, inventory, and field service operations in this expanding marketplace. The relocation project began April 2012 and triples our secure storage and adds two service bays to better support customers. As customers continue to award Weir Minerals Canada with new original equipment orders, the business has responded by making a significant investment in this new facility and the required inventory to ensure they continue to offer market leading service and solutions that delight their customers.
Weir Minerals Canada will be hosting an Open House on September 11 from 3 – 9 p.m., to mark the Grand Opening. The Open House will also coincide with the Oil Sands Tradeshow Exposition being held September 10-11 at the Suncor Community Center.
Weir, a FTSE 100 company founded in 1871 and headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, is a global provider of engineering solutions to the minerals, oil and gas and power sectors.
Weir has a worldwide network of more than 200 manufacturing facilities and service centers. The business has a presence in more than 70 countries, with more than 14,000 staff around the world working in three divisions; Minerals, Oil & Gas and Power & Industrial. Weir’s customer base includes mining houses, major oil services businesses and nuclear and conventional power generation companies. Annual revenues were more than £2.5 billion in 2012, of which more than half came from the provision of services and aftermarket support. Emerging markets contributed 35 percent of overall Group revenues.
Weir Minerals employs more than 7,000 people worldwide delivering end-to-end solutions for all mining, dewatering, transportation, milling, processing and waste management activities. Weir Minerals has an advanced product range incorporating brands such as Warman® centrifugal slurry pumps, Geho® PD slurry pumps, Linatex® rubber products, Vulco® wear resistant linings, Cavex® hydrocyclones, Floway® Pumps vertical turbine pumps, Isogate® slurry valves, Multiflo® mine dewatering solutions, Hazleton® specialty slurry pumps, Enduron® comminution equipment, R. WalesTM specialty rubber products, Lewis® Pumps vertical chemical pumps and KHD™ high pressure grinding rolls (used under license from Humboldt Wedag GmbH) - covering virtually any application, in any environment.