JULY 2014
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business elite canada
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By Perry King
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A small company with big ambitions, AMEC
Usinage is poised to do some dynamic things in
the manufacturing industry this year.
Incorporated in 1995 by friends Francois
Doyon and Christian Beaulieu and originally re-
siding in the Charlesbourg industrial park north
of Quebec City, AMEC Usinage (meaning “ma-
chining” in French) has earned a reputation as
a trusted manufacturer — focusing on the pro-
duction of components to accurate precision.
With an outlook to provide more consulting,
machining, quality and project management
expertise in the medical, energy and aero-
space sectors in Canada and abroad, AMEC has
focused on expanding its production capacity
in its facility in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures,
Quebec while acquiring assets for more ex-
panded business.
With a plan to increase business volume by
20 per cent this year and make a big move into
the aerospace industry, adjusting the growing
volume to their production capacities in Que-
bec is the biggest challenge for AMEC, says Eric
Morin, AMEC’s director of research and devel-
opment.
“We have to fight to reduce, as much as pos-
sible, setup times and to double up the capac-
ity, to calculate all these intangible costs that
represent stocking finishing parts,” says Morin,
a University of Laval engineering graduate who
has been with AMEC since 2010.
