Fabricator links success to exporting, innovation. (North Bay).Ask Ron Miller Ron Miller or Ronald Miller can refer to several different people:
Even if it means sending mechanics to a mine in Tanzania to service one of their underground vehicles, he will do it if that is what it takes to satisfy the customer. "We would have no growth at all if we didn't export," says Miller, president of North Bay's Miller Technology Inc. and RHM RHM Right Hand Man (band) RHM Rank Hovis McDougall (UK company) RHM Right-Handed Media RHM Remains Handling Model RHM Routine Health Maintenance RHM Registered Housing Manager RHM Red Hub Module Equipment, who estimates about 30 per cent of their equipment line leaves Canada to the U.S. and overseas." Miner Technology, which started out 23 years ago as a three-man operation in his garage, today employs 30 people at their Seymour Street shop and at a new sales office on Ferris Drive with a total combined space of 20,000 square feet. "Almost every mine in Canada knows us and has bought something from us over time," says Miller, 56, who counts Inco, Falconbridge, Cameco and several potash potash: see potassium carbonate. potash Name used for various inorganic compounds of potassium, chiefly the carbonate (K2CO3), a white crystalline material formerly obtained from wood ashes. and smaller mine operations among his regular clients. Very much a family affair, one son, Chad, heads up the sales and marketing division of its underground equipment, while the other son, Kent, oversees the engineering department. Miller, a former chief designer with Jarvis Clark, a forerunner company to mining equipment giant Sandvik Tamrock, started his own business in 1979 rather than end up caught up in some management and philosophical changes in the company. When the city and neighbours began complaining about his diesel tractors "making a lot of noise," he shifted activity to his present site on Seymour in 1985 with a 3,000-square-foot shop and warehouse. The company's "bread and butter" has always been manufacturing or modifying underground personnel carriers, a process that began with a four-wheeled 'Mine Kart', which Miller's describes as a "overgrown overgrown said of a part that has not been kept trimmed. overgrown hoof overgrown hooves put unusual stresses on bones and tendons and allow for distortion of the wall and sole. golf cart," before eventually expanding into other multi-functional utility carriers. Rather than go head-to-head with mass producers like John Deere and Caterpiller, Miller Technologies worked out a deal to buy Toyota Underground Landcruiser cabs and chassis and specially outfit them with accessories to suit customers needs. Miller estimates about 90 per cent of the equipment they sell are custom builds in some fashion. They also operate a spinoff Spinoff A new, independent company created through selling or distributing new shares for an existing part of another company. Notes: Spinoffs may be done through a rights offering. company, RMH RMH Ronald McDonald House RMH Rocky Mountain House (Canadian national park) RMH Rochester Methodist Hospital (Rochester, MN) RMH Real Manly Hug RMH Report on Macroeconomics and Health RMH Recent Medical History Equipment, which sells Komatsu Forklifts, JCB JCB Noun trademark, Brit a large machine used in building, that has a shovel on the front and a digger arm on the back [initials of Joseph Cyril Bamford, its manufacturer] JCB® n abbr heavy equipment and a snowmobile snowmobile, vehicle designed to travel over snow, ice, and similar surfaces that offer limited traction and weight-supporting capability. As the performance of the vehicle depends to a large extent on keeping its weight as low as possible, there is no enclosure for trail groomer. However, the design wheels at Miner Technology's continue to turn with their latest innovation - a high lift-capacity, multi-purpose fork lift and utility vehicle with front and back attachments. They also manufacture a variety of ancillary equipment for the application of shotcrete shotcrete or gunite Concrete applied by spraying. Shotcrete is a mixture of portland cement, aggregate, and water conveyed by compressed air to a spray gun. For structural uses, shotcrete is usually sprayed over a framework of reinforcing bars and steel mesh. , cable bolt installation, explosives loading, electrical cable handling, road maintenance and rock drilling. www.millertechnology.com |
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