Around the Province.Sixty jobs will be created as a result of a $20 million expansion of Nexans Canada Inc. in Weyburn. This is the third expansion in the last eight years for the power cable manufacturing facility. IRD IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French) IRD Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand's tax revenue collection department) IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder Inc. is starting construction on a $1.2-million, 15,000-square-foot addition to its existing head office in Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. .
The company has also purchased a 1.2-acre lot next to the office, which
will be the location of a new manufacturing facility. In addition, IRD
has made a sale worth $1.25-million, after landing a contract with the
State of Wisconsin to supply weigh-in motion truck sales at its Hudson
truck inspection station.
Canada Safeway Ltd. has opened its first gas bar in Saskatchewan, employing nine full-time staff at its new facility in Moose Jaw. Construction has begun on the $25 million Saskatchewan Indian Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. College at the University of Regina History Origins In direct response to the award of the University of Saskatchewan to Saskatoon rather than Regina, the Methodist Church of Canada established Regina College in 1911 on College Avenue in Regina, Saskatchewan, starting with an enrollment of 27 students; . It is expected to be completed in 2003. NorSask Lumber Mill, owned by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council, has been named among the most productive lumber operations in North America. A survey by Pricewaterhouse Coopers shows NorSask is leading the industry in percentage return assets, return on equity and return on capital employed Return on capital employed (ROCE) Indicator of profitability of the firm's capital investments. Determined by dividing Earnings Before Interest and Taxes by (capital employed plus short-term loans minus intangible assets). . NorSask produces about 10,000 metres of lumber a week, and up to 95 per cent of its products are shipped to the United States. Hanson Lake Sand Corporation has set up a $3.6-million processing facility for silica sand on the Hanson Lake Road. The company will haul the processed product to Prince Albert, where a truck transfer facility has been built to move the product to Medicine Hat, Alberta Medicine Hat, known to locals as "The Hat", is a city located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is situated on the Trans-Canada Highway, the eastern terminus of the Crowsnest Highway, and the South Saskatchewan River. . The product is used in the gas/oil-drilling field. Two new tenants have been announced for the Cornerstone Development that is presently under construction in Prince Albert. Payless Shoe Source and Dollar Store will occupy a 7,000-square-foot facility that will be operational by the end of September. They will join the previously announced Wal-Mart and Garden Market IGA IgA abbr. immunoglobulin A IgA, n the abbreviation for immunoglobulin A. IgA immunoglobulin A. See immunoglobulin. stores. McDonald's Restaurant is building a new 125-seat restaurant across from the new Burger King at the corner of Main Street and MacDonald Street in Moose Jaw and will relocate from its present location at the Town & Country Mall. Wynyard Technologies, an ammonium sulphate producer, has expanded its secondary business. The expansion involves a newly-built warehouse, which will feature industry-sized freezers, for the shrimp-fishing operation. Weyerhaeuser has officially opened its new Oriented Strand Board Oriented strand board, or OSB, or waferboard, or Sterling board (UK), is an engineered wood product formed by layering strands (flakes) of wood in specific orientations. mill in Hudson Bay. Premier Lorne Calvert took part in the ceremonies held at the end of June. The state-of-the-art facility will employ 160 people in the mill and another 160 in the forest, Meanwhile, Weyerhaeuser's 4.9 million hectares of Saskatchewan Forestland operations have been certified to the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 14001 environmental management system standard. |
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