Each year, our President, Bob Parr, along with other business leaders, is invited by Home Improvement Retailer Magazine to profer his thoughts about where the industry has been and where it’s going. Last year, he made a few predictions, and we thought it was time to see how well he fared. “Many Home Improvement Retail […]

The times we live and work in are nothing if not unprecedented. The pandemic has had a significant impact on health, businesses and entire sectors. Many businesses have not survived the impact. The construction industry has been lucky – booming in Ontario, BC and across the country. Everywhere you turn, you see a flurry of […]

R&D is the heart of any successful manufacturing company. It paved the way for Atlas Polar from our engine designs back in 1938 to our renowned Polar Remote controls and state-of-the-art waterway debris removal systems: Polar Trash Racks, HydroRake® and HydroBrush®, and specialized HiVOLT ALERT™ early warning systems. And it certainly paved the way for […]

Climate change has reached the crisis point, and the heavy equipment and logistics industries need to step up and take some responsibility for the levels of CO2 emissions. It’s driving a new industrial revolution and HIAB is leading the charge. According to experts Oliver Wyman, in their insights on manufacturing industries riding the green wave, […]

Innovation is about pursuing ideas for positive change – and we surely need that. It’s often the driver for start-ups and entrepreneurs and at the core of long-standing successful businesses. Innovations are great ideas that tend to pay homage to other great ideas that came before them. They’re sparks that bring light to the challenges […]

Home Improvement Retailing Magazine is the go-to publication for the building supply industry at large – equipment, retailers, dealers, distributors, contractors, building products and materials, manufacturing, merchandising and fixturing, sales professionals to point-of-sale. Each year, it features a state-of-the-industry report with predictions from key industry leaders on the year to come. To say that this […]

Are you in the concrete forming industry and in search of a truck mounted crane that can get the job done? If you are, you won’t want to miss out on the HIAB XS 410K Forming Day at Mitryk Services. This one-of-a-kind event takes place from 10am to 4pm on September 26, 2015 at 1127 […]

ARW Truck Equipment, a high-quality truck-mounted equipment provider, was recently featured in YardStick magazine for their ability to move LBM resources safely and efficiently. The article highlights the many benefits of using quality truck-mounted equipment for companies in the LBM industry; however, it is a useful resource for many different types of industries which need […]