Extending excellence  PERI Formwork Systems is a global market leader in quality and innovation, using German manufacturing excellence to create concrete forms and scaffolding products that serve the construction industry worldwide. Keith Regan learns how efforts under way at PERI Canada seek to extend that level of excellence through the sales, service and support organization as well.

Extending excellence PERI Formwork Systems is a global market leader in quality and innovation, using German manufacturing excellence to create concrete forms and scaffolding products that serve the construction industry worldwide.

Drilling deeper  Orbit Garant Drilling was formed by merger in 2007 and now is one of the top surface and underground diamond drilling service providers to the mining industry in Canada and around the world. Keith Regan learns how vertical integration and customer satisfaction excellence have helped the driller stay busy during down times and position itself for growth as the economy rebounds.  When a mining company needed to quickly commence drilling at a remote gold mining site in Nunavut, it turned to Orbit Garant.

Drilling deeper  Orbit Garant Drilling was formed by merger in 2007 and now is one of the top surface and underground diamond drilling service providers to the mining industry in Canada and around the world. Keith Regan learns how vertical integration and customer satisfaction excellence have helped the driller stay busy during down times and position itself for growth as the economy rebounds.  When a mining company needed to quickly commence drilling at a remote gold mining site in Nunavut, it turned to Orbit Garant.

Building on trust Building an outstanding reputation for construction in the San Francisco Bay Area is a challenge fraught with pitfalls. Yet for Nibbi Brothers General Contractors, the idiosyncrasies of each project represent a labor of love, as Andrew Pelis learns. Nibbi Brothers General Contractors was established back in 1950 when Marino Nibbi, who at the time worked as a carpenter for another general contractor, decided to start his own construction company. Shortly thereafter, his brother Pete joined the business, as did his son Sergio in the late 1950s.

Totally nuts  In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, a fourth-generation family-run nut supplier recently chalked up its second-best quarterly net income since going public in 1991, as Pam Derringer learns.  Jeffrey T. Sanfilippo, chairman and CEO of John B. Sanfilippo & Son Inc., says the companyÔÇÖs near-record quarterly results for the $554 million company were due, among other factors, to better inventory controls and a whopping $3.4 million in savings from facility consolidations.

Tunnel visions You might think that large-scale excavation and the construction of a 7,100-foot-long rail tunnel would be enough to make any town grind to a halt. However, Andrew Pelis learns, life continues apace in the city that never sleeps, as one of New York CityÔÇÖs newest features starts to take shape, thanks to J.F.

Climbing the mountain A 7.5-megawatt hydroelectric facility went into commercial operation at Whistler Mountain in early 2010, just before Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort welcomed the world to its slopes for the Winter Olympics.

Climbing the mountain A 7.5-megawatt hydroelectric facility went into commercial operation at Whistler Mountain in early 2010, just before Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort welcomed the world to its slopes for the Winter Olympics. Keith Regan learns how the project was brought in ahead of schedule and how it fits into a larger sustainability mission for the community.

The golden square mile As the name implies, Guyana Goldfields is developing a property in the South American country of Guyana for a combined pit mine and underground mine that will be the largest gold operation in the country, Gary Toushek learns.  Toronto-based Guyana Goldfields, Inc. was a junior exploration company when Claude Lemasson joined as president and COO in early 2009. After drilling for the previous four years, it had a large discovery in Guyana on its hands called the Aurora Project, and within a property covering 110,000 acres.