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"Main Street" Factory - Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada Bought in 1993, Expanded in 1994 – 12,000 square feet dozers, loaders, excavators and scrapers. The wide variety of parts and lower run quantities of these parts dictates a flexible manufacturing system that is able to process order quantities from 1 to 10 efficiently. Larger run quantities, although less frequent, are also easily processed. 1996 saw further expansion of production capacity in Selkirk with the construction of a 29,000 square foot facility on Railway Street, adjacent to the steel mill. In 2003 Black Cat began to develop an offering of complimentary cast wear parts to offer a broader range of parts for their distributors. Investing heavily in research and development, design, and quality assurance, the company was determined to develop a "first-tier" product offering. The range of these parts grew quickly and now includes a Black Cat Quality Wear Parts, Bucket Teeth, Blades, Segments, Shrouds large variety of bucket teeth and adapters, ripper teeth, bucket lip and sidebar protection items, bull dozer end bits, half arrow shaped blades and segments, and numerous other complimentary wear parts for a broad range of applications. In 2005 a 24,000 square foot warehouse and distribution facility was opened in Edmonton primarily to inspect, package, and distribute these parts to distributors in North America. IDA UNIVERSAL July-August 2013 Continued on page 15 "Railway Street" Factory - Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada Built in 1996 – 29,000 square feet - Gerdau Ameristeel steel mill in background Warehouse - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Leased in 2005 - 24,000 square feet 13