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Polaris Materials Corporation Has Been Producing Aggregates Since 2007 NANAIMO
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ORT McNEILL – T he unique blessings of Mother Nature coupled with solid business acumen have made Polaris Materials Corporation an industry leading international provider of construction aggregates – just ask the City of Los Angeles and a host of other offshore customers that purchase its range of sand, gravel and other construction materials. “The company was founded in 1999 and spent several years exploring for projects like the Orca Quarry near Port McNeill that was discovered by our founder, Marco Romero in partnership with local First Nations, the Kwakiutl Band and the ‘Namgis First Nation. The geology, shape and texture of the sand and gravel in the deposit lends itself to making high performance concrete,”
Nicholas Van Dyk (inset) says the dedicated loading facilities at its Orca Quarry project is a key to its successful operation explained Nicholas Van Dyk, the Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development
at Polaris Materials Corporation (PMC). With a permitted capacity of
6.6 million tons of material per year, construction of the Orca Quarry was completed in February 2007. Polaris Materials Corporation has an 88 per cent ownership share of Orca Sand & Gravel with the local ‘Namgis First Nation owning the remaining 12 percent. Considered one of the most efficient operations in North America, the Orca Quarry produces premium quality aggregate that is noted for its performance in high strength concrete, and as a result is in demand in regions such as California with its high seismic code requirements. “The main deposit of the quarry is essentially a prehistoric river bed that accumulated masses of sand and gravel as the glacier run off flowed into the ocean. At the end of the last Ice Age, as SEE POLARIS MATERIALS | PAGE 11
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Nanaimo Engineering Practice Helped Design Chinese Fish Farm Founded In 1994 Herold Engineering Is A Leading Civil & Structural Engineering Firm BY DAVID HOLMES
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ANAIMO – A Vancouver Island engineering firm has played a pivotal role in helping to enhance the Chinese food fish industry. Nanaimo-based Herold Engineering Limited has completed its work designing components of a shorebased fish hatchery in China, one of the first international
assignments for this multi-faceted firm. “The project was in essence an on-land fish farm, an operation created to produce salmon as food fish. The client basically takes the fingerlings and grows them on site, with the young fish actually originating on northern Vancouver Island,” explained project engineer Holly Monaghan. “We didn’t actually go to China,
but carried out the concrete design of the raceways for the fish, some other firm designed the rest of the facility. One of the unique aspects of the job was that we had to produce all of the drawings for the project in both English and in Mandarin, with one of our own staff looking after the translations.” Herold Engineering is a civil / structural engineering firm that has worked over the years with
a wide range of clients including municipalities, institutions and various corporations. The company was founded by Mike Herold in 1994 and currently has a team of more than 60 providing consulting civil and structural engineering services with production offices in Nanaimo and Victoria and with satellite offices in Fort Nelson and Ucluelet. SEE HEROLD ENGINEERING | PAGE 13