Crownsmen Partners

Today we have Scott Fomenoff from CIF Construction here to highlight their projects in different industries, like mining, energy, forestry and many more. He discusses oversight on major projects by Komatsu, explains the terminology “bolt down”, outlines CIF’s approach to collaborating with Indegous communities in the areas they work. CIF Construction Ltd. (CIF) is a premium concrete and civil cont...

Charles Nyabeze B.Eng MBA, Vice-President Business Development and Commercialization for CEMI joins Mining Now! The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation, is Canada’s expert in mining innovation. They deliver commercially viable innovations to improve heat & rock stress, mine productivity, safety, ore discovery and environmental performance. Charles and Jerrod Downey discuss how companies...

Ben Rapple CEO of BR Attachments, discusses their full line of products from excavator and loader attachments to asphalt pavers and to walk us through creating partnerships, valuable leadership lessons running a business teaches, and the importance of correctly structuring your financing. Watch Episode Here: https://youtu.be/fIe7A84IFOc

Drillform Technical Services Ltd. offers innovative automated drilling equipment & service solutions for the global market. Their CFO, Jesse McDougal joins Crownsmen Energy to discuss how they are “Forming the Future of Drilling Equipment” with a line of Automated Floor Wrenches and Drilling Catwalks. She also discusses supplying equipment for major projects by Exxon and Chevron around the wor...

This episode features Managing Director of NGIF, John Adams https://www.ngif.ca/team-member/john-adams/ . He is responsible for launching the Natural Gas Innovation Fund https://www.ngif.ca/ and raising capital from its industry investors for project investments and building its strategic partnerships. He is responsible for developing the fund's investment process, governance and accountability, a...

40,000,000 upgrades to a crushing facility, dredging in the Fraser River, and what happens when the big corporation takes over the small family run business. These are just a few of the topics covered with Mainland Construction Material President, Kevin Spenst. Mainland Construction Materials ( https://mainlandcm.com/ ) and their companies, Mainland Sand & Gravel ( https://mainlandcm.com/mainl...

CEO of Absolute Combustion, Koleya Karringten, joins Jerrod Downey for episode 8 of Crownsmen Energy to discuss developing their “high-performance combustion burners that meet expectations without compromising on environmental values.” Koleya shares the story of building the company with her father at only 21 years old, the challenges of partnering with inventors, seizing an opportunity to enter t...

David Yager is President and CEO Winterhawk Well Abandonment and author of “From Miracle to Menace” https://www.miracletomenace.ca/ and he joined Crownsmen Energy to discuss the energy sector in Alberta and Canada. In the first part of the interview David discusses the Federal government’s funding of $1.7 billion into cleaning orphan and inactive wells. We then move on to Winterhawks new technolog...

Rick Zemlak, a partner at Lakewood Electric joins Jerrod Downey on The Crownsmen Show to discuss major mining and energy projects ( https://www.lakewoodelectric.ca/projects/all-projects ) like Coalspur Mine by Bighorn Mining in Hinton, Alberta and. Tidewaters (formerly owned by Husky) Oil & Gas Refinery in Prince George BC. Rick also discusses the development and integration of instrumentation...

Turkana ( https://turkana.ca/ ) is an innovative data and analytic service company offering a host of services built around it’s revolutionary imaging technology while fostering industry collaboration and integration of services through an Ultra Fast Universal Data Platform. The CEO and Founder of Turkana, Tim Davies ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-davies-9a71659/ ) joins Crownsmen Energy to dis...

SGS is a true global leader in inspection, testing, and verification services across all industries including mining, energy, transportation, manufacturing, construction, and agriculture. In this episode we focus on their geological services with Minerals Global Business Manager, Marc-Antoine Laporte. We unpack their service offerings including the application of machine learning to exploration ta...

Acceleware is working towards a cleaner future for oil sands and heavy oil production. They have developed RF XL. Acceleware's RF XL ( https://www.acceleware.com/technology/overview.html ) is a transformative innovation that uses radio frequency ("RF") energy to heat and mobilize heavy oil and bitumen, resulting in dramatically cleaner and lower-cost production relative to traditional steam-based...

Is it possible to create a continuous source of green, clean, and affordable energy from deep earth? With governments moving towards carbon free fuels and lower CO2 emissions and consumers looking for alternative sources of energy outside traditional fossil fuels, there is certainly demand. Grant Strem, Chairman and CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-strem-017aa112/ of Proton Technologies http:...

The energy industry carries with it a new set of opportunities and challenges every day.  When Iggy Domagalski  the CEO of Tundra Process Solutions sat down to speak with host Jerrod Downey for Crownsmen Energy  he laid out a thoughtful and clear approach to navigating companies through both good and bad days. He discussed his journey from Winnipeg with a finance background to runni...

Where will the next generation of mining equipment operators, managers, and leaders come from? How do mining operators and contractors not only attract your talent but retain employees? These are just a few of the topics covered in this episode of The Crownsmen Show https://www.crownsmen.com/show/ featuring the Turner Mining Group www.turnermining.com President Keaton Turner linkedin.com/in/keaton...

In this episode Richard Masson joins the Crownsmen Energy to discuss the role of the World Petroleum Council – Canada https://wpccanada.com/ including helping their members stay connected and informed about the oil and gas industry worldwide, primarily by organizing the Canadian presence at the tri-annual World Petroleum Congress. He also discusses Fractal Systems’ JetShear technology https://www....

Riskope believes that through risk information and science they can better the world. Their mission? Increase value, sustainability for clients by giving them leading competitive edge through 360-understanding of risks and rational mitigative roadmaps. Risk assessments have to put all the risks “under the same roof”, be convergent, avoid “siloes”, include interdependencies. That’s what they do wit...

Projects in completely different environments and in separate industries show what it takes to design and deliver pump equipment for fluid handling requirements in the oil and gas industry, mining, and major drilling projects, and construction. Production Foreman for Power Zone Equipment, Greg Sanchez, joined Crownsmen Energy to explain the multiple stages of inspecting, designing, engineering, fa...

Have you ever wondered who tests critical care medical equipment to make sure it functions correctly, solar panels to ensure they are designed to last, or the safety of an electric motor that will be installed in hazardous locations? LabTest has been accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) as a Certification Body (CB) to certify, electrical/electronic devices, hazardous location equipm...

25 years ago Tom Palangio stepped away from his position at Dupont to further develop his fragmentation analysis technology. He had developed the technology in partnership with Waterloo University specifically for measuring rock blasts but quickly found multiple applications in the aggregate industry. Seeing potential competition Dupont and Tom reached an agreement that he would not operate in Nor...

In 2015 on a Friday afternoon, Ed Lingel got off the phone with the founder of Daequip and told his wife they had just bought an attachment manufacturing company. With her support (and his gratitude for that is very clear in the interview) he took the company from where the former owner ran it as a one man show with a handful of employees to a full service heavy equipment attachment company with d...

TransWorld Manufacturing Company is the company between the crane manufacturer and crane operators. They design, engineer, and manufacture for the heavy lift and haul industry; specializing in boom dollies, spreader bars, engineered lifting beams, spreader bars end cap, and outrigger mats. Crystal Dieleman began the company in 2015 and is the 3rd generation in her family to be in the heavy haul in...

In this episode we discuss the changes in the railcar industry including the shift in who actually owns the rail cars and how storage facilities are ever increasing in demand, along with some very good tips for being a new company in a massive industry. Joining The Crownsmen Show is Vice President, Business Development Managers, and Partner of  MGH Railcar, Robert Skarzynski. MGH Railecar’s s...

Avenue Machinery is perhaps best know as a Kubota tractor dealer but it didn’t take long for Jerrod Downey and Chris to “dig” into how long it takes to move the right people into a company and move out people who aren't, how the technology in new equipment can be frustrating for the older generation of farmers but how new technology lowers maintenance time, and the lessons Chris learned about lead...

The XGraphic engineering company develops tailor-made software solutions for individual technical tasks in various economic sectors and industries including for mining and processing. In this interview Dr Buttgereit discusses how XGraphic provides optimized decision support based on real-time data including how to turn the underground mining cycle into operational intelligence and how they are clo...