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BW
Technologies Ltd.
designs, manufactures and markets a full line of gas-detection
equipment. Poisonous gases are a daily risk for people who work in
many industries, including mining, fire rescue work and the oil and
gas industry. BW makes portable, hand-held instruments, as well as
detectors that can be stationed or affixed in buildings. All of BW’s
products protect both personnel and the facilities where they work.
Think of BW’s gas-detection instruments as high-tech, modern-day
canaries in a coalmine.
BW’s
headquarters are located at a new 33,000 square-foot facility in
Calgary, Alberta. The local staff relocated to this building in July
2001, where both the administrative and production team work. All of
BW’s products are designed and manufactured in house.
BW
Technologies is a Calgary-based company, but it also has sales and
customer service offices reaching around the world, including those
in Texas, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
BW’s
History
BW
Technologies was founded in 1987 by Cody Slater, when he invented
what would become the company’s very first product—the
Rig Rat. At the time, Slater was working towards an astrophysics
degree at the University of Alberta. But the innovative Rig Rat—the
world’s first wireless, solar-powered gas detector—was
enough to change Slater’s career plans. He left university to
pursue the creation of a new business, and BW Technologies was born.
Today, BW Technologies Ltd., employs more than 350 people around the
world. BW is a leader in the gas-detection industry with nearly 30
technologically advanced products.
Slater
was recently recognized by Report On Business in the magazine’s
annual “Top 40 Under 40” feature—a
list of the country’s best and brightest innovators under the age
of 40. There, he’s quoted as saying: “Do what you enjoy because
everything comes from that. If you have a passion for what you do,
then everything else will pretty much fall into place.” Advice to
follow from a man who started with his own invention and has since
built an international, multi-million dollar company.
BW’s
Customers
As
for BW’s diverse list of customers, you can find people using the
company’s instruments around the world. BW makes instruments for
British Petroleum, Shell, the Paris Fire Brigade, Weyerhauser, the
U.S. Coast Guard, the cities of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Montreal, Toronto and Sydney, Australia—just
to name a few. | |
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