The public face┬áIn less than ten years, Permasteelisa has grown from nothing in North America to a leader in its field, thanks to an impressive international reputation, as Alan T Swaby learns. The staggering amount of rebuilding around the World Trade Center in New York City has kept many curtain wall suppliers busy.

As the economic crisis rattles the US oil and natural gas industry, one company is poised for peak performance when markets recover, reports Brendan A. Smith Peak USA Energy Services helps oil and gas firms reach optimum production levels. Specializing in rig moving, custom heavy hauling, crane and rigging services, general freight, hot shot deliveries, and oilfield transportation, Peak offers more than 20 years of experience backed by a world-class fleet of over 250 trucks.

Long journey, short term results Paper Converting Machine Company got serious about getting lean shortly after it was acquired in 2005 and has since turned in some of the best financial years in its history. Keith Regan learns how the journey is viewed as ongoing, but one capable of producing powerful results along the way.

Be prepared┬áThings donÔÇÖt always go exactly to plan, so having a fallback position is an essential requirement for survival, as Alan T Swaby learns. Coping with adverse trading conditions calls for strategies that have additional benefits to the customer or that set one particular organization apart from the rest. Sometimes they need to be created; at other times they are already in place and simply need switching on.Take the Opus Corporation as an example.

Building a better system together┬áA decision to merge what were once seven hospitals under two systems helped pave the way for London Health Sciences Centre and St. JosephÔÇÖs Health Care, London, to begin a wave of construction that continues today, Keith Regan learns.  Nearly a billion dollarsÔÇÖ worth of new construction and renovation is coming together on the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and St.

The proactive approach┬áGood labor relations are really quite simple. OPSEUÔÇÖsWarren Thomas tells Gay Sutton about the secrets of effective negotiation and putting issues rather than demands on the table. The world of trade unions has changed enormously since the bad old days of full-on confrontation, when old-style head butting polarized management and workers into opposite and conflicting camps.

Everybody wins┬áNorthern Quest Resort & Casino provides much more for its community than just entertainment, Gary Toushek discovers. In the 1990s the Kalispel Indian Tribe was so financially destitute it expected to file for bankruptcy before the decade ended. As a last resort, with low expectations, the tribe applied for a casino license.

Finding needles in a haystack┬áMineral exploration is a high risk business with more failures than successes, but one Canadian company is hoping to hit the jackpot by using a different model, as Bill Botham learns. Everyone is familiar with the dramatic rise in the price of gold. Over the past decade it has tripled in price. What may be less well known is that platinum at one point actually outstripped the price rise of gold.  In 2007ÔÇô08 it skyrocketed to $2,000 per ounceÔÇôalmost twice the gain of gold.

Bridging borders┬áKeith Regan learns how ongoing investments by the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission in three spans over the Niagara River reflect a long-term mission to provide the infrastructure necessary to make border crossing as streamlined as possible. Niagara Falls is one of the worldÔÇÖs most popular vacation and honeymoon destinations, a natural wonder to which millions flock from around the world each year.

Where the rubber meets the information highway┬áIn its quest to improve traffic flow, the Missouri Department of Transportation has embraced the use of technology as part of its comprehensive outreach effort, Keith Regan learns.  ItÔÇÖs been nearly 275 years since the state of Missouri built its first sanctioned roadway, Three Notch Road, which went into use in 1735.