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Salit Steel in Action! The sheer size, weight and length of this cage required out of the box thinking by Salit Steel Rebar , Stelcrete in Welland, SRI installations, detailing and Salit trucking to come up with a cage support system, method of building, and special freight requirements in order to ship this cage that was 27 tonnes. As construction and infrastructure projects become larger and designers become more and more creative, the Salit Group of Companies has a tremendous opportunity to c...

Salit Steel teamed up with Anchor Shoring (Now GFL) to tackle some of the largest caisson cages ever supplied in the GTA. This project had many obstacles, from no room on site to build cages, to 10 foot diameter cages with 55M – Grade 500 rebar with each cage weighing up to 15 metric tonnes. The sheer size, weight and length of these cages required out of the box thinking by Salit Steel Rebar Sales in Grimsby, Stelcrete in Welland, SRI installations, detailing and Salit trucking to come up with ...

Recently at Salit Steel HQ we asked for our Team to send in some shots from their 2018 summer fun! The results were fantastic and we’re happy to say that the Salit family had many happy moments of summer fun to share with us! Thank you to everyone who shared their photos and stories, the results were REALLY great and here is one of our favourites sent in from Gary at our Bowmanville location. My Kidney Story by Gary Vander Meulen, Salit Steel Bowmanville This summer was vastly different from any...

Earlier in the spring the team at Stelcrete opened their doors to welcome some students from Niagara College. These students are graduating students of the Construction Engineering Technology program, just like our own Mark Young, StelCrete Engineering Co-ordinator. The students made the trip to StelCrete in Welland, Ontario to get a look at the production side of the rebar/steel industry and to learn about the many aspects of this business so the students are aware of what opportunities could b...

The Keeyask Project is a hydroelectric generating station that is being developed in a partnership between Manitoba Hydro and Manitoba First Nations. Salit Steel was awarded the contract to be the primary supplier and installation of rebar for the Keeyask Generating Station in Northern Manitoba. Once completed, The Keeyask Generating Station will be a source of renewable energy providing approximately 695 megawatts of capacity and producing an average of 4,400 gigawatt hours of electricity each ...

In 2017, Salit Specialty Rebar, known as SSR, consolidated from two plants into one. We closed our Niagara Falls facility and moved all staff and operations to our Buffalo facility in order to increase productivity by reducing material handling time and promoting easier communication. Before the big move SSR renovated the Buffalo office, and transformed approx. 6,000 square feet of previously unusable space into SSR’s headquarters. If you take a look at the pictures you’ll see that they even use...

During the Month of December Salit Steel locations across Canada took on the challenge of “Food Fabrication”. Working in teams, the challenge was to build something out of food items that then would be donated to a local Food Bank. There were a few parameters for this challenge and to keep thing interesting, and bonus points were offered if a team chose to recreate a Salit Steel project. As you can see from the pictures, it turns out that we have a competitive bunch around here, and many creativ...

Recently Salit Steel was recognized with an award from the city of Niagara Falls. Larry and Daniel Cohen were honored to accept the Corporate Sponsor Award for 2017. We would like to thank Project Share for the nomination, and look forward to many more opportunities help out our community! Every year Salit Niagara takes on the challenge to raise awareness and donations to support Project Share, our local foodbank . Salit team members help out by competing in food drive challenges, volunteering t...

Over the past year, employees of Salit Steel in Niagara have volunteered their time to organize a number of BBQ’s and a golf tournament in efforts to raise funds for Niagara Children’s Centre. As part of their 2016-2017 initiatives, the employees were tasked to choose an organization that promotes healthy living and activities for children living in the Niagara Region. This year, Niagara Children’s Centre was the lucky recipient of their efforts. Click here to view the article on Niagara Childre...

Every year, Salit Steel partners with local Colleges and Universities to offer summer employment opportunities to students who are in full time post-secondary education. As our summer students head back to class this week, we’d like to share some thoughts from one our students, Justin Caporuscio, who is embarking on a new adventure this fall – moving to France to study abroad! Justin has spent the last three summers working for Salit Steel. Justin’s first year was spent in Production, and in his...