New Canadian facility for Top Lift

The first ground has been broken for the construction of a new head office and expanded heavy equipment support facility in Ontario, Canada for Top Lift Enterprises.

The facility will cover 16,000 sq. ft.; 10,000 sq. ft. of which will be devoted to shop space and will include four drive-through service bays and warehousing space for OEM parts inventories. The service area will be fitted with three 50-ton capacity overhead cranes to handle the heaviest equipment and components.

Multi-media features, including video conferencing in the new boardroom, will support ongoing communications with Top Lift offices in Quebec and British Columbia, as well as enable interactive learning in the site’s training centre.

The company was established more than 20 years ago to service intermodal container handling equipment. Since then it has developed as a major Canadian distributor of container handling, material handling and construction equipment, representing several leading OEM brands.

Having outgrown its current Ontario location, the company expects to relocate to the new premises early in 2011. “It can’t come too soon,” says David Shea, managing director and co-founder of the company, adding that for the last 10 years the focus had been on growing the Montreal and Vancouver branches.

“We have experienced terrific growth so far in 2010 and we are running a bit of ahead of economic recovery in this region. With this new building, we will be much better equipped to handle the growing volume of our business and be ready to deliver a whole new level of service to customers as their businesses ramp up again.”
(Source:www.container-mag.com)