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Quad Engi-
neering is celebrating over 30
years of successful business, having
generated hundreds of millions of dol-
lars into the Canadian economy.
A solutions-oriented company,
Quad Engineering offers a wide range
of products and services to its clients,
from mill components to complete mill
installations. Quad is a focused steel
and metals engineering firm, and has
a strong team to carry out the compa-
ny’s promise of quality to customers.
The company offers feasibility stud-
ies, conceptual engineering, design
of unique equipment, plant improve-
ment solutions, supply of equipment,
operator training, and installation and
construction engineering suitable for
local contractor installation. “By adapt-
ing the cost conscious philosophies of
the competitive mini mill steel indus-
try, Quad Engineering has developed
into an industry leader in the supply
of engineering and equipment for both
shape and flat rolled products for the
steel and non-ferrous industries,” the
company says.
A high standard of quality and
service encompasses Quad Engineer-
ing’s business, and this is how the
company has become a true staple in
the Canadian industrial sector.
BUILDING A BUSINESS
Mike Levick, President of Quad,
is one of the company’s founders and
owners, along with Joe Pataki, Quad
Chairman. Levick tells CIO that start-
ing the company was somewhat of a
happy accident. At the time of incep-
tion, Levick and Pataki, along with
two colleagues, were working at an
engineering and steel company that
ultimately, because of the recession,
closed its engineering division. “They
were owned by a holding company
and in the depths of the recession in
the early ‘80’s, decided they wouldn’t
be building any more steel plants, so
the engineering company was closed,”
he recalls.
“
We decided that this was an op-
portunity to do something on our own,
so we set up Quad to offer the same
type of services that the former engi-
neering group did.”
Initially, the new engineering firm
expected that customers from the for-
“
There
is more of an en-
gineering component to
what Quad does: we offer more
efficient timelines. More than that,
there is an ability we have to moni-
tor and control the manufacturing
process and ensure quality con-
trol for our customers,”
QUAD ENGINEERING
