VIDIR SOLUTIONS
Award-winning company manufactures VIDIR GOES VERTICAL:
press buttons to get the ones you wanted down to waist height,” explains Carissa Rempel, talent acquisition and public relations specialist for Vidir Solutions. “It was safer. It eliminated forklifts and ladders. It allowed for better viewing of all of the merchandise.” Within months, Beaver Lumber purchased Dueck’s innovative solution for use in their stores. To keep pace with demand, Vidir Solutions’ automated material handling was born. Vidir Solutions vertical lift modules (VLMs) and carousels can now be found in more than 45 countries and at some of the biggest companies in the world, including Amazon, Disney, Herbalife, Home Depot, Kohl’s, SpaceX, Tesla, Vale and Walmart — and even at the White House. Vidir Solutions designs products for use in just about every industry, including manufacturing, warehousing, automotive and aviation. The company’s products can also be found in health care, government, construction, retail and display, energy, printing and converting. Every client is assigned a customer care concierge who will walk them through the process of finding the perfect solution to maximize their unique space, whether it be an existing product in Vidir’s lineup or a custom-designed solution. “We do a lot of customized solutions,” Rempel explains. “We do everything in- house, all the way from selling through design and production — right from raw steel through installing and servicing.”
BY KRISTIN MARAND V idir Solutions’ innovative inven- tory management machines are in every Home Depot, Walmart and major auto manufacturer in North Ameri- ca and they were voted one of 30 Top Em- ployers in Manitoba for 2022. It’s possible you have unknowingly used one of their automated lockers or a carousel at a “buy online, pickup on site” machine. Or perhaps you’ve seen a bicycle merchandising system with dozens of bikes on display from floor to ceiling and wondered “How do they get those down?” In 1976, Willie Dueck planted the roots of Vidir Solutions. The Arborg agriculturist realized that farmers were losing time in their fields due to issues with broken-down machinery and no one locally who could fix it. Around that time, there was also an influx of Bolivian immigrants settling in the area, some of whom where skilled machinists. So Dueck opened a machine shop providing both employment and a high-demand service for his community. Fast-forward a few years and Dueck’s sons, running a hardware store, came to their father with the question of how to make storing, displaying and accessing flooring materials safer and more efficient. “He came up with the first carousel, which was essentially an automated sort of shelving unit that would allow all the rolls to be on a carousel where you can see all of the different ones. You could
solutions to storage challenges
Vidir Solutions vertical lift modules (VLMs) and carousels can now be found in more than 45 countries and at some of the biggest companies in the world, including Amazon, Disney, Herbalife, Home Depot, Kohl’s, SpaceX, Tesla, Vale and Walmart — and even at the White House.
BOPOS (Buy Online Pickup On Site) machines. Supplied image
Vidir accepting the award for Exporter of the Year from Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters. Supplied photo
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