Manufacturing in Manitoba

2 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 StandardAero is one of the world's largest independent engine maintenance, repair and overhaul and aviation service businesses in the world. With over 100 years of experience in the global aerospace industry, we provide comprehensive services for business and general aviation, air transport and military aircraft. StandardAero offers exciting career opportunities in a variety of disciplines including technical, professional and leadership. Our people are the company's competitive advantage. We involve our people in our business and work out solutions together. We offer team members a cooperative and fun, team-oriented work environment that recognizes employee's contributions and rewards performance while offering lots of opportunity for training and career growth. Ready for your career to take flight? See what opportunities await at: www.standardaero.com/jobs high-grade compost, as well as worm casings at its Winnipeg worm farm, where worms reportedly feed on high-grade organic grains and produce up to 500 tonnes of casings per year. HempSense Inc., in Gilbert Plains, is developing new products from hemp straw, including cat litter, and Morden-based Prairie Barnwood dismantles old barns and uses the wood to make brand-new furniture. On the high-tech end, brain surgeons and rocket scientists are making significant contributions. Monteris Medical markets a life-saving made-in-Manitoba invention, a minimally invasive neurosurgical tool called the NeuroBlate System, that can reach inoperable brain tumours. And Magellan Aerospace manufactures complex components and assemblies, including the Black Brant rocket — the first of which was launched in 1962 — as well as horizontal tail assemblies for F-35 Lightning II aircraft and satellite buses. It recently delivered the first of three Power Control Units to the Colorado-based Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics that are destined to be used in a future Deep Space Interplanetary Mission. Magellan is one of the 'big three' companies, along with Boeing and StandardAero, that anchor the largest aerospace cluster in Western Canada. StandardAero is a world leader in aircraft repair, overhaul and maintenance, and Boeing Winnipeg's composites manufacturing facility produces more than 600 different composite parts and assemblies for Boeing aircraft. The aerospace sector provides more than 5,400 jobs at the big three and about two dozen smaller companies, including Cormer Group Industries, an important manufacturer of machine details and assemblies for clients including Boeing Canada. Building suppliers include some of North America's most prominent window, door and kitchen cabinetry manufacturers, and one plant in Winnipeg literally makes money. As the saying goes at the Royal Canadian Mint, change is good, and the Crown corporation's local facility can turn out 20 million coins per day, producing currency for Canada and countries around the world, as well as collector coins. (One of the Mint's hot sellers this year was a glowing, oval-shaped $20 coin that paid homage to Manitoba's famous 1967 Falcon Lake Incident, in which amateur prospector Stefan Michalak suffered burns when a UFO he had approached made a sudden departure.) While it doesn't have a licence to print money, Manitoba's printing industry does make almost everything else that comes in paper form, and we're home to one of North America's leading book and packaging manufacturers, Altona's Friesens Corporation. Books that come hot off the Friesens presses include a perennial childhood favourite, Robert Munsch's Love You Forever. Employee owned, the company has long been ahead of the eco-friendly curve. After it printed J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on 100 per cent post-consumer waste paper in 2004, Rowling insisted that the rest of the books in the series followed suit. Speaking of suits, you can find a range of formal and casual clothing that's made locally – Canada Goose parkas, Tough Duck workwear from Richlu Manufacturing, Silver Jeans from Western Glove Works, military cold-weather gear from Peerless Garments, Manitobah Mukluks and more. Like so many other manufacturers in Manitoba, they always put their best foot forward. ❙ hig cas wo org of c Hem dev incl Pra use On roc CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS HEMPSENSE INC., IN GILBERT PLAINS, IS DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS FROM HEMP STRAW, INCLUDING CAT LITTER, AND MORDEN-BASED PRAIRIE BARNWOOD DISMANTLES OLD BARNS AND USES THE WOOD TO MAKE BRAND-NEW FURNITURE.

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