50
TH
ANNIVERSARY
As PowerTel prepares to celebrate 50
years of success (July 2, 2018) next year,
Business Elite Canada talks with its cur-
rent President A. Adnane Rakib, President
(the first one not named Gatien), and
John MacKinnon, Vice President, Busi-
ness Development, about the company’s
industry-leading safety programs, quality
management systems, personnel training,
apprenticeship training and strategic plans
for continued growth and expansion.
“I believe part of our success has come
from being very diversified,” says Rakib.
“We provide services to the large utilities,
but small companies as well.”
Rakib says PowerTel is proud to bring
power to large communities through large
utilities, and to any new developments—
typically in mining. “We still pursue those
projects to provide services to get power
to new developments. We are also proud
of our record of providing power to many
remote First Nations communities in
Northern Ontario.”
Rakib says one of the biggest challenges
in working in remote areas is access. Over
the decades, PowerTel has achieved one
of the best track records in off-road utility
construction, so much so that the company
developed an off-road tracked vehicle fleet
subsidiary called PowerTraxx. The units
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