Headlines from this weeks SPEC

March 3, 2002

Construction LFG gets contracts with nickel giant Falconbridge
Gilles Gagne

SAINT-OMER - Gaspesian company, Construction LFG, from Saint-Omer, is working on an important contract obtained last fall from one of the biggest producers of nickel in the world, Falconbridge, of Sudbury, Ontario.

Construction LFG took delivery at the beginning of January of an old ore converter, and was asked to rebuild it. The 80 tonne piece of steel was dismantled in Sudbury in December and put on a special tractor-trailer tandem in order to cover the 1,800 kilometers between the Northern Ontario mining town and the Bay of Chaleurs.

Groupement forestier Baie-des-Chaleurs creates a "green" subsidiairy
Activa hires many young and qualified people
Gilles Gagne

NEW RICHMOND - The New Richmond based Groupement forestier Baie-des-Chaleurs recently created a subsidiary, Activa Environnement, which will take care of projects and studies related to specialized fields such as biology, ecology, geomatic and high technology applied to forestry. In the process, the new firm hires many young, university trained Gaspesians.
The Groupement forestier was launched in 1973 in order to develop a competent manpower in sylviculture work, on private land as well as public land. About 400 people own the shares of the Groupement, which employs up to 150 workers during the high season of sylviculture. But environmental preoccupations slowly pushed the company to explore other technical fields.