Technoflex International, Inc. (commonly named Technoflex) is a Canadian company headquartered in
Bois-des-Filion
Bois-des-Filion is an off-island suburb of Montreal, located in Quebec, Canada, to the north of Montreal.
Historically, hundreds of families annually travelled to this region seasonally to experience the magnificent maple forests; however the ...
,
Canada
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that designs, develops and distributes products made from 100% recycled post-consumer materials.
The company was founded in 1993 in
Longueuil
Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly acr ...
,
Canada
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by former
CEO
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
Jean-Luc Hebert and Pierre Bourgeois.
History
In 2009, Technoflex became part of a private Canadian consortium. The new owners aimed to position Technoflex as a market leader in their industry sector. A year later, in 2010, the head office and the manufacturing operations of Technoflex moved to a new facility on Montreal’s North Shore to ensure high potential growth. In 2014, Technoflex create a partnership with CCPME
(Desjardins Development capital)
to ensure its fast growth by financing some of its operations with
Desjardins Group
The Desjardins Group (french: Mouvement Desjardins) is a Canadian financial service cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions (french: caisses populaires) in North America. It was founded in 1900 in Lévis, Quebec by Alphonse Des ...
development capital.
CCPME is an investment fund that provides Québec SMEs patient capital to support them in their expansion, R&D and business acquisition.
Industry Sectors
Retail
The core business of Technoflex is
retail
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...
. They mainly manufacture and distribute retail products for the end consumer to home improvement retailers all around the globe such as
Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (), often shortened to Lowe's, is an American retail company specializing in home improvement. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, the company operates a chain of retail stores in the United States and Canada. A ...
,
Canadian Tire
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas stations a ...
,
Rona, Inc.
Rona, Inc. (stylized as RONA) is a Canadian retailer of home improvement and construction products and services, owned by the United States-based retailer Lowe's. Founded in 1939, the company operates a mixture of company-owned and franchised ...
,
Brico Dépôt
Brico Dépôt () is a chain of DIY and home improvement stores, headquartered in Longpont-sur-Orge. The chain was created in 1993 by Castorama Dubois Investment and later purchased by the British group Kingfisher which operates 135 stores in Belg ...
,
Castorama
Castorama () is a French retailer of DIY and home improvement tools and supplies, headquartered in Templemars, France, and is part of the British group Kingfisher plc, which has 101 stores in France and 90 in Poland. The company became a subsidia ...
and much more. Technoflex begins its first commercializing activities with the Secure Step, an anti-slip stair tread made of
recycled rubber
Tire recycling, or rubber recycling, is the process of recycling waste tires that are no longer suitable for use on vehicles due to wear or irreparable damage. These tires are a challenging source of waste, due to the large volume produced, th ...
tires.
Traffic Safety
The second core business of Technoflex is
traffic safety
Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle passengers, horse riders, and passengers of on-roa ...
. They manufacture and distribute traffic safety products such as speed bumps, speed humps, parking curbs, signalling bases and much more to specialized companies in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
and
United States
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.
See also
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Rubber recycling
Tire recycling, or rubber recycling, is the process of recycling waste tires that are no longer suitable for use on vehicles due to wear or irreparable damage. These tires are a challenging source of waste, due to the large volume produced, th ...
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Plastic recycling
Plastic recycling is the reprocessing of plastic waste into new products. When performed correctly, this can reduce dependence on landfill, conserve resources and protect the environment from plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
A ...
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Rubber mulch Rubber mulch is a type of mulch used in gardens and landscaping that is made from recycled rubber, most often crumb rubber sourced from waste tires.
Composition
Rubber mulch generally consists of either waste tire bits or nuggets of synthetic ru ...
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Plastic mulch
Plastic mulch is a product used in plasticulture in a similar fashion to mulch, to suppress weeds and conserve water in crop production and landscaping. Certain plastic mulches also act as a barrier to keep methyl bromide, both a powerful fumigant ...
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Compression moulding
Compression molding is a method of molding in which the molding material, generally preheated, is first placed in an open, heated mold cavity. The mold is closed with a top force or plug member, pressure is applied to force the material int ...
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Injection moulding
Injection moulding (U.S. spelling: injection molding) is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mould, or mold. Injection moulding can be performed with a host of materials mainly including metals (for ...
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Vulcanization
Vulcanization (British: Vulcanisation) is a range of processes for hardening rubbers. The term originally referred exclusively to the treatment of natural rubber with sulfur, which remains the most common practice. It has also grown to include ...
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
References
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Recycling industry
Plastic recycling