The Times Advocate, 2005-01-05, Page 3Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Exeter Times -Advocate
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Hensall company works
all over the world
Daryl Keys, president of Hensall's Industrial Drive Service Inc., stands with a
motor control system the company recently sold to a gold mine in Venezuela.
(photo/submitted)
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
HENSALL — While it may be a small
local company with a staff of only six,
Hensall's Industrial Drive Service Inc.
(IDS) does business all over the world.
IDS manufactures motor control sys-
tems for many automated processes,
including the gold mining business. Not
only does the company build the motors
in Hensall, but employees travel around
the world to install the systems, presi-
dent Daryl Keys told the Times -
Advocate Monday.
Recent international work for the
company includes the sale of a 600
horsepower motor starter and control
system for the Hecla gold mine in
Venezuela and another sale to a mine in
Peru. The company works with a min-
ing consultant in Burlington to get most
of its leads on mining work.
The biggest part of IDS's business is
industrial motor controls for uses such
as hoisting and extrusion. The company
did all the controls for Kongskilde's
Exeter plant and still does work for the
company in the U.S. IDS has also done
work with United Plastic Components in
Exeter, but Keys says most of his com-
pany's business is in northern Ontario,
with about 25 per cent of their business
in the U.S. Other international sales
have taken place in Tanzania and
China.
The company does little local work,
something Keys would like to see
change.
IDS has been in business for 16 years
and, while Keys admits Hensall is "a lit-
tle out of the way" for such a business, it
wouldn't matter where he located IDS,
because employees would still be travel-
ling around the world installing prod-
ucts. Keys decided to situate IDS in
Hensall because he's always lived in the
area.
UTRCA delegation speaks to council
By Mary Simmons
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
LUCAN — A delegation
from the Upper Thames
River Conservation
Authority (UTRCA) pre-
sented its preliminary
budget to Lucan Biddulph
council Monday night.
General Manager Ian
Wilcox and Lucan
Biddulph's representative
on the board of directors,
George Marr, made the
presentation and fielded
questions from council.
Wilcox told council the
conservation authority
provides excellent value to
its member municipalities
through staff expertise,
efficient programs and
financial leveraging.
He said municipal con-
tributions are matched
and often exceeded
through other sources of
revenue, but additional
revenue is required from
all sources for 2005 to
meet minimum environ-
mental protection needs.
Wilcox also explained
that although capital costs
have not been included in
the budget for the past 10
years, it has been added
to this year's budget
because it was becoming
unmanageable and there
were health and safety
issues.
The 2005 preliminary
budget, which will be dis-
cussed by the board Jan.
11 and go to a vote Feb.
22, is set $9.6 million, of
which member municipal-
ities contribute 33 per
cent.
Lucan Biddulph is being
asked to pay $4,734, an
increase of $770 from last
year, although this figure
could change if the board
makes adjustments.
Of this figure, $4,386
goes to the general and
flood control levy, $82
goes to specific projects
and $266 is a capital sur-
charge.
Wilcox also outlined the
projects which benefitted
the municipality in 2004.
He said there were three
Clean Water projects, 335
trees planted, ongoing
surface and groundwater
monitoring, flood monitor-
ing and warnings, Species
at Risk research, develop-
ment application reviews
and outdoor recreation
and education activities at
the Wildwood and
Fanshawe conservation
areas.
Council accepted the
report and agreed to dis-
cuss any concerns about
the budget with Marr so
he could take their recom-
mendations to the board.
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Ethanol sites submitted
By Pat Bolen
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
GODERICH — The
Huron County Panning
Department has narrowed
the list of potential sites for
a proposed ethanol plant
from five sites down to
four, which will be sent to
the Canadian Renewable
Fuels Association (CRFA).
Huron County planner
Monica Walker -Bolton
said the sites are being put
forward on behalf of
Huron County.
They are based on what
the planners believe are
the best fit for the criteria
requested by the CRFA in
its letter in late November
requesting proposals.
Walker -Bolton said the
goal of the proposal is to
make Huron County look
like an ideal location for
an ethanol plant.
"Each of the sites has its
own special things about
which we think makes
them attractive and give
us a competitive advan-
tage over other regions."
The four sites to be sub-
mitted by Huron County
are in Goderich, Seaforth,
south of Exeter and
Hensall.
The CFRA letter outlined
a lengthy list of criteria a
site would have to meet
including rail access, a
water source capable of
providing 1.5 million to 2.5
million litres of water per
day, natural gas and elec-
tricity.
Secondary site require-
ments include a steam
host, grain handling facili-
ties, nearby feed markets
as well as any incentives
offered by the municipali-
ty.
According to Walker -
Bolton, the CFRA is not an
investment group and is
acting as a pre-screening
group for potential
investors to make the pro-
posals available for
investors.
Although the letter
received from the CFRA
proposed five ethanol sites
across Ontario,
Walker -Bolton said it
wasn't known for certain
there would be that many,
with several already locat-
ed across the province.
"But we do know from
the provincial announce-
ment ethanol is going to be
mandated at least five per
cent in all gasoline for
2007, and we have also
heard it is going to go up
in 2010 to 10 per cent.
There is going to be a long
term demand for more
ethanol availability so it is
good to have our name out
there as a location for the
future too."
"So the angle we're tak-
ing on it is we want to
establish ourselves out
there in the potential mar-
ket place as a region that
is very ideal for this type of
industry, to attract the
jobs it would create and to
make use of the agricul-
tural product grown here.
We think it would be a
very good fit."
Walker -Bolton added let-
ters of support have been
received by the depart-
ment from across the
county.
The deadline for the cri-
teria to be received is Jan.
7 although Walker -Bolton
said it wasn't the same as
most other proposals.
"It's more a situation
where they want to have
the information available
at their fingertips and they
want to promote and pro-
file a number of communi-
ties in Ontario to the
potential investors...but we
won't know we're the win-
ner until an investor is
knocking on our door and
talking to us about setting
up a plant."
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