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dustry, now things have changed so much that
general manager, Jean-Louis Vangeluwe, says
the company’s biggest challenge is to develop
new products for new applications and to grow
and diversify from the international standard.
The geo-membrane business is now an inter-
national business and Solmax is an interna-
tional company with a manufacturing plant in
Quebec that very efficiently covers the areas of
America, Europe, Western Russia and the At-
lantic coast of Africa. Another plant in Malaysia
strategically covers Asia, India, Australia, the
Middle East and Eastern Russia. Solmax piping
division is located in proximity of Chilean min-
ing companies.
Listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed
Companies in 2012, this recognition for effec-
tive management was not earned overnight.
Solmax started strictly in the distribution busi-
ness, then began an overhaul into installation
because they recognized an unmet need in the
market for it, then ventured into the manufac-
turing side of the industry in 1997. That’s when
