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The Saskatchewan Industrial & Mining Suppliers Association Inc. (SIMSA) is a non-profit organization consisting of Saskatchewan-based companies in the industrial and mining sectors. Founded one year ago by a small group of companies in response to opportunities arising from the province’s boom, SIMSA has been working tirelessly to promote Saskatchewan to potential investors.
As SIMSA president and general manager Tom Foster explained, the organization was created with the hopes of representing the diverse interests of the various individual companies within the sector, as well as promoting industry in Saskatchewan as a whole.
“A small group of companies were concerned about the new international companies and engineering firms coming to Saskatchewan and not being aware of or appreciating the capabilities of Saskatchewan’s design, manufacturing and construction support infrastructure.
Saskatchewan has developed a worldclass manufacturing base that supports the broad industry requirements ranging from forestry, mining, oil and gas to power and steel production, and Saskatchewan-based companies have the ability to not only compete for these projects, but also partner with each other when the scope is too large for an individual company,” Foster said.
SIMSA is made up of eight founding companies and their representatives. The board, led by Tom Foster of Industrial Machine & MFG Inc., consists of Ken Cenaiko of Croatia Industries Ltd., Jim Thompson of Brandt Engineered products Ltd., Dwayne Howatt of Continental Mine & Industrial Supply Ltd., Jim Nowakowski of JNE Welding, Bruce Lyle of GMR Electric Motors Ltd., Dwaine Friesen of AJ Machine and Manufacturing Ltd., and Francis Nagy of Deca Industries Ltd.
“The members of SIMSA and the board want not only to help educate potential international customers investing in Saskatchewan, but also to direct future development of the infrastructure or fabric of the province, by ensuring we influence procurement policies to look at the net benefit to both our potential customers as well as the people of Saskatchewan, rather than just low tender on bid day,” Foster said.
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