SEPT/OCT 2014
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business elite canada 69
By Cheryl Long
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It was a project in a small Saskatchewan
town with a population of less than 1,000
that truly set Burnco Manufacturing Inc.
apart from its peers.
In 2010, Burnco was sub-contracted to do
the design-build on a product storage build-
ing at the PotashCorp’s mine in Rocanville,
Saskatchewan. The building – the fourth
largest of its kind in the world by volume –
measures 750 metres long, 100 metres wide
and 45 metres high at its peak, and has ca-
pacity for 500,000 tonnes of potash and re-
lated materials. To put the job’s size in per-
spective, typical structural projects contain
500 to 1,000 tonnes of fabricated structural
steel; the Rocanville job boasted more than
10,000 tonnes.
“We were responsible for all of the design
of the steel structures, the cladding systems,
the corrosion protection systems as well the
procurement of the material and the instal-
lation of the material for this product stor-
age building,” explained Kevin O’Neill, Sales
and Marketing manager for the Concord,
