ALBERTA STEEL MANUFACTURERS: Building a Sustainable Industry

Tareq Ali

National Marketing Manager

Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC)

The Alberta Steel Manufacturers (ASM)

• Formed in 2010, the ASM is a collaborative effort between:

- The Alberta Pressure Vessels Manufacturing Association (APVMA)

- The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC)

- Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education, Economic

Competitiveness Division, Industrial Development

- Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters-Alberta Division

• Mission Statement:

Provide industrial project owners with construction solutions that are

produced and delivered safely, are of the highest quality, are sensitive to

schedule and competitively priced.

In addition, ASM companies continue to develop an Alberta-based

sustainable skilled workforce for the future benefit of all stakeholders

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Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC)

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• Mission:

Canada’s voice for the steel construction industry, providing leadership in design and construction efficiency, quality and innovation.

• Activities:

The CISC promotes the use and benefits of steel in construction, adds value to the construction and design community and supports the needs of the membership and industry through:

- Quality Certification

- Education and training

- Industry codes and standards

- Research and development

- Advocacy & Promotion

- Support service to consultants (Solutions Centre)

www.cisc-icca.ca

Alberta Pressure Vessel Manufacturers’ Association

(APVMA)

• Mission:

Provide a forum for communication and discussion on issues concerning the industry and in doing so, improve the performance of individual member companies.

• Activities:

The APVMA promotes pressure vessels and heat exchangers fabricated in Alberta through the support of:

- Educational institutions promoting the trades

- The apprenticeship system

- Research and development concerning welding technologies

- Quality certification

- Advocacy

www.apvma.ca

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Alberta Steel Manufactures (ASM) -Our Shared Values

1) Developing a Culture of Safety in the Workplace

2) Creating a Sustainable Workforce in Alberta

3) Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

4) Building Local Centres of Excellence in supply

5) Quality Certification

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Developing a Culture of Safety

• APVMA and CISC member companies helped create the Manufacturers’ Health and Safety Association (MHSA) in 1993.

• MHSA Mission:

To achieve work site wellness and reduce occupational injuries and illnesses in the manufacturing industry through education, training, advocacy, and partnership.

• Activities:

- Assist employers to build a health and safety management system, refine an existing program

- Employers know that a safety management system is an investment, and obtaining a COR and being recognized is a good business practice

- Issuers of Certificates of Recognition for contract bidding purposes, and rebates from the WCB

- Promote worker safety with over 35 courses in 6 cities, training more than 3,400 workers per year

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Creating a Sustainable Workforce in Alberta

• Support Alberta Apprenticeship programs for welders, steam fitters,

structural and plate fitters, millwrights, boilermakers and ironworkers -

totaling 14,657 individuals annually.

• Provide support for CAREERS: The Next Generation

• 125 scholarships and 90 research grants to Canadian universities –

totaling $3.1 M

• Training for nearly 2,900 industry professionals over the past four years

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Creating a Sustainable Workforce (contd.)

•Alberta metal manufacturers contribute to the supply of

journeymen by training and developing apprentices.

•Journeymen in the manufacturing environment migrate to

field and maintenance work and become the Maintenance,

Repair, Operations workforce of tomorrow.

•Total number of metal manufacturing-related apprentices

registered in the provincial apprenticeship program in 2011

exceeded 14,000.

Delivering lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

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• When comparing total

cost of ownership –

Domestic suppliers are

highly competitive

• International suppliers

can cost 25% or higher

when compared to

domestic, in addition to

higher costs associated with time delays.

Building LOCAL Centres of Excellence in supply

CISC CAPACITY – ALBERTA APVMA CAPACITY

• 31 members in the province

• 22 members with more than 2,000,000 sqft. of production facilities

• More than 16,000 tonnes/month local capacity.

• Monthly fabricating capacity in excess of 10,000 tonnes.

•More than 100 other fabricator members nationally; Additional 55,000 tonnes/month capacity.

•Individual projects with vessel dimensions of 75 metres in length, and 10 metres in diameter, weighing 700 tonnes.

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Local relationships result in greater accountability, collaboration,

responsiveness and successful projects.

QUALITY CERTIFICATION

• Our industry has implemented some of the most sophisticated quality

management systems that ensures you get the highest and most

consistent quality possible – every time.

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• Global Quality Certification

standard

•Third party audits by the

CWB Group/Quasar

• Audits every 3 years by

ASME & ABSA

•Holders of current “U”

stamp as per ASME

•Regular inspections by ABSA enforcing the Safety

Codes Act

Leveraging data from Industry research projects

We have partnered with the University of Alberta and independent

consultants to conduct two landmark industry studies:

1. Canadian Structural Steel Manufacturing Capacity Study

• Determine the annual capacity of the Canadian structural steel

manufacturing industry, broken down in the following categories:

structural steel, bridge work, non-pressurized structural plate work, open

web steel joists.

2. Total Cost of Construction Comparison Study between Canadian

manufactured steelwork and internationally manufactured

steelwork.

• Determine the final erected cost of structural steel manufactured in

Canada compared to structural steel manufactured internationally.

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THANK YOU