At Laurentide Controls, this ecosystem is what drives us every day, moved by our purpose to help industry thrive in Eastern Canada. We asked members of our team to tell us what this means for them.

Planned outages are a costly for plants: specialized trades and equipment replacements, combined the costs of downtime itself, make for an expensive few days or weeks.

A leading pharmaceutical manufacturing plant on the US East Coast regularly subscribes to Emerson’s Asset Condition Monitoring service to augment their reliability program.

Our client, a paper mill in Quebec, was experiencing frequent machine breaks that were causing emergency shutdowns. At an average of $8,000 per hour, these incidents were having a major impact on the plant’s productivity: between $300,000 and $500,000 in losses per year. It became evident that to optimize repair timing, detect probable failures and restart correctly, their planned shutdown strategies needed to be revised.

Our client, a global mining company, had just launched operations at their new facility in Northen Quebec. From the start, the management team wanted to build a culture of reliability and proactive management of assets and equipments.

Our client, a major mining company, had just put one of its factories back into operation. From the start, managers wanted to instill a culture of reliability and proactive management of assets and equipment.

With intense international competition, growing concerns for the environment and thining margins, the current skilled labour shortage only intensifies a growing list of challenges faced by the Pulp and Paper industry.