agencies, providing every-
thing from project manage-
ment to sourcing equipment
and rentals, catering services
and support services.
They then acquired a plant in
Slave Lake in 2009 that gave
them the capacity to manu-
facture for themselves.
“We were having a hard time
having equipment available
for the catering side and get-
ting things built for ourselves
[so] we decided to vertically
integrate,” said Vice Presi-
dent and owner’s son Travis
McCracken. Travis shares his
father’s entrepreneurial spirit
and has helped in turning a
mom-and-pop type compa-
ny into a soaring enterprise
by acquiring another piece
of property in Edmonton in
2010. With only expansion
and growth on the company’s
agenda, they decided to ex-
pand to international markets
by opening up their “Foxfire”
plant in Surprise, Arizona in
2012 – their largest facility
to date. Today, the company
provides modular and cater-
ing services for the oil and
gas industry as well as manu-
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