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Phoenix Building Components continues
to expand its products and capacity
CADCR special feature
Phoenix Building Components is a
design/engineer and manufacturer of
wood based structural products in-
cluding roof trusses, wall panels, floor
trusses, timber trusses and engi-
neered wood beams and columns.
Since its opening in 2005, the com-
pany has grown its reach and scope
and now provides products across On-
tario and Quebec and into New York,
Ohio and New England.
The company expanded its capabil-
ities and ability to achieve greater lev-
els of service and quality when it
opened a new 50,000 sq. ft. facility in
Essa Township near Barrie in 2016,
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doubling its manufacturing space to
45,000 sq. ft., tripling yard space for
product storage, and almost doubling
its workforce.
Grant Gibbons, Phoenix president
and CEO, said the new location also al-
lowed the company to increase its
sales into non-traditional areas, and al-
lowed it to manufacture new product
lines. In 2017, the company purchased
the operations of Ex-Kent trusses, lo-
cated in Sundridge, ON, just south of
North Bay. The two locations ran dou-
ble shifts throughout 2017 in order to
maintain supply to meet the demand
for its product, says Gibbons. “We
have become the largest Ontario
based exporter of building compo-
nents to the U.S.”
From its roots designing and man-
ufacturing roof trusses, the company
has expanded over its more than 10-
year history to include wall and floor
panels and floor trusses. It is also a
wholesaler of engineered wood prod-
ucts including Rimboard, triforce
joists, structurally insulated panels,
glulam, connectors and hangers, and
timber structures.
Gibbons says his company’s prod-
ucts are used in residential, commer-
cial and agricultural construction, and
that the precision work allows it to be
used for mid-rise projects as well. “All
of our roof trusses are lasered and all