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Coulson Ice Blasting Blows Cleaning Tech Out of the Water IceStorm Set to Revolutionize the Industrial Cleaning Industry
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ORT ALBERNI - IceStorm is poised to sweep across the globe. Coulson Ice Blast recently announced the release of their new product, IceStorm. This industrial cleaning solution is the first machine that allows users to blast surfaces with either ice or dry ice at the switch of a button. The Coulson Group of Companies began in 1960 when Cliff Coulson founded Coulson Forest Products Ltd. Nearly 60 years later, the company is run by Cliff’s son, Wayne, and grandsons Britton and Foster. Coulson Ice Blast, which is run by Fosterm is one of the newest wings of the business. The industrial cleaning equipment business is a multi-billion dol la r busi ness. Every th i ng needs to be cleaned. Coulson Ice Blast is the only manufacturer of industrial cleaning equipment to produce machines that blast with real ice. “We were looking to de-paint one of our aircraft,” says Foster. “Many of the available cleaning methods were too expensive,
and we had an engineer who had worked with a company that developed a mechanism that would take regular ice, crush it into small particles, and would blast out at high speeds using pressurized air.” The company that developed this technology had gone bankrupt over a decade before, so they had this engineer build a system. “It was very large at the time, but we knew we had something special and unique,” says Foster. “There was nothing else on the market like this.” Foster took the helm of the newly acquired Coulson Ice Blast in 2015 and started investing in research and development the following year, creating a smaller, more affordable machine. “We were recognized by R&D Magazine for one of the top 100 technologically significant products of the year,” he says. “From there, things have started to snowball. We have more traction, more distribution partners, which is part of our path forward for disrupting the industry.” SEE COULSON GROUP | PAGE 7
Foster Coulson has been leading Coulson Ice Blast since its beginnings in 2015
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Western and Northern Canadian Environmental Consulting Firm Boasts Down to Earth Consulting
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ANAIMO – EDI brings a dow n-to-ea r t h approach to environmental consulting. For over 24 years, EDI Environmental Dynamics Inc. (EDI) has been helping companies navigate the environmental regulatory process through to the completion of their project.
EDI is an environmental consulting firm that provides practical services through their team of aquatic and terrestrial scientists, working on everything from single property developments, to collecting baseline information to large-scale environmental assessments and environmental construction monitoring.
The company started in Prince George in 1994, initially focussing on providing environmental guidance to the forestry industry. Over the years, it has expanded to have eight offices across Western and Northern Canada, including the Southern Region offices of Nanaimo, Victoria, and Vancouver led by Ian Redden, as well as
the Prince George, Whitehorse, Calgary, Grand Prairie, and Saskatoon locations. “The company has grown to include 85 specialists, but it still has a family feel. We work to understand the markets we work in and what our clients need,” says Rahul SEE EDI ENVIRONMENTAL | PAGE 22