Links to our industry partners
Forward North's seven industry partners listed below currently employ over 9,000 people in Manitoba, and contribute $6 billion to the Manitoba economy every year! These companies are looking for skilled workers to fill many different kinds of jobs right now, and expect to hire many more in the years to come.
Mining
Vale Inco
Vale Inco is a leading producer of nickel, and also of copper, cobalt and precious metals. Vale Inco has operations around the world including in Thompson, Manitoba. The Thompson complex includes three mines. Two of these operations are underground – the Thompson Mine and Birchtree Mine. The third mine, the Thompson Open Pit, is above ground. The Thompson complex also includes a mill, smelter and refinery, which turn raw nickel into a range of products for industrial customers all around the world.
Garson Gold
Garson Gold Corp. owns the New Britannia Mine and ore processing mill located in Snow Lake, Manitoba. Garson Gold currently operates an extensive exploration program to find out exactly where gold-bearing ore in the area is located, and to determine how much gold the ore contains. Garson Gold also has active exploration programs near Sudbury and Espanola, in northern Ontario.
HudBay Minerals Inc.
HudBay Minerals Inc. is a leading Canadian base metals mining company. Its focus is the discovery and production of zinc and copper metal. HudBay Minerals has an extensive exploration program focusing on its 400,000 hectare mining property in the Flin Flon Greenstone Belt. The company operates mines, concentrators and metal production facilities in northern Manitoba (Flin Flon and Snow Lake) and Saskatchewan. It also owns a zinc oxide production facility in Ontario, a copper refinery in Michigan, and a zinc mine in New York state.
Crowflight Minerals
Crowflight Minerals Inc. is a junior mining exploration and development company active in the Thompson Nickel Belt in Manitoba, and the Sudbury Basin in Ontario. It is currently focused on construction of the Bucko Lake Nickel Mine, located near Wabowden in northern Manitoba. This mine is scheduled to begin producing nickel in mid-2008.
Forestry
Lousiana Pacific
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, known worldwide as L-P, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of wood and engineered wood building products. It has 25 manufacturing plants in Canada, the U.S. and Chile. L-P’s manufacturing plant in Swan River, Manitoba makes oriented strand board (OSB). OSB is a panel product made from poplar trees, and is used in all kinds of construction projects, from houses to offices to warehouses to factories.
Tolko Industries
Tolko is a family-owned company based in Vernon, B.C. that has operations in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Tolko makes a wide range of building products from wood including dimension lumber, oriented strand board and extremely strong kraft paper that is in demand worldwide. Tolko’s complex in The Pas, Manitoba includes a sawmill, kraft paper mill, and the woodlands division that harvests the needed trees and then replants the trees that are cut down.
Energy
Manitoba Hydro
Manitoba Hydro is Manitoba’s major energy utility, supplying electricity to homes, businesses and industries across Manitoba. Manitoba Hydro also sells power to over 30 electric utilities in Canada and the mid-western United States. Nearly all the electricity Manitoba Hydro generates comes from self-renewing water power from 14 hydroelectric generating stations. These generating stations are located along the Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, Nelson and Laurie rivers. Manitoba Hydro also has an extensive system of transmission lines and related equipment to transport the electricity that’s generated in northern Manitoba to southern Manitoba and beyond.
