Target Products Ltd.
Target Products Ltd., incorporated in 1961, is a privately owned Canadian company with production and distribution annual sales in excess of $25 million. The company operates manufacturing plants in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan and distributes products across Western Canada and northwestern United States. Target has interests world-wide and exports its products globally. With sales representatives in South America and the Pacific Rim, it has sold its products from the Antarctic (a British Air Force base) to the Polaris mine on Cornwallis Island in Canada's far north. Target has sold abrasives (used in sandblasting) to Chilean marine firms and mines in the Chilean desert. Target has successfully completed significant ($5M-$7M) supply contract work in Northern B.C., Washington and Hawaii. The company has strong, experienced management, is sound financially and takes pride in all work done; staff complement varies between 90 and 110 people.
As other opportunities become available they are assessed and pursued if they fit overall Target objectives. Other ventures are under continual review.
Supply and Disposal of Abrasives & Foundry Sands into the Cement Industry:
Target's program for the removal of spent abrasives to Lafarge Canada Inc. - Richmond BC Canada or to Lafarge Corporation - Seattle WA; USA has been developed to meet the increased need to recycle or reprocess waste products rather than dumping those materials in landfills; the use of spent abrasives in the cement manufacturing process converts a waste material into a useful product, thus removing the potential
risk that land-filled abrasive wastes will become a future problem.
Projects which require lead base paints to be removed that result in greater than 5ppm lead in the spent abrasive can usually be handled under our program with Cominco Ltd in Trail, B.C. The spent abrasive is used for fluxing in the process of producing lead.
In 1995 Target Products Ltd investigated the potential use of spent abrasives and foundry sands to be recycled and used as filler for dry mix concrete products. Target worked with the Ministry of Environment to develop the use for waste abrasives and foundry sand. The company developed the process to clean, dry and screen the sand and re-use it in the manufacturing of dry concrete products.
The life-cycle management of products is a service option for Target Products customers. We found that customers prefer to pay for the added cost of life-cycle management at the time they purchase our products rather than retaining the responsibility for disposing of their wastes and incurring possible long term liabilities should wastes not be properly disposed or should government laws become more stringent.
The overall cost for waste management is lower in most cases than the cost of disposal to landfills because the wastes have a value in the end products. The major influencing factor for Target's clients in choosing the life-cycle service option, however, remains with their ease of mind in not having to deal with or worry about their waste products.
Target finds a suitable end user for the waste and also assumes the responsibility for transporting the wastes from the customer's point of use to the end user of the waste grits. For example, Cominco Trail is able to use spent grits of silica sand in a metallurgical process that is benefited by the silica content in the wastes while Lafarge Corporation of Seattle is able to utilize certain metal-containing grits to augment its
cement manufacturing process.
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Neil Duke
Title:
Manager
Area of Responsibility:
Domestic Sales & Marketing
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(604) 420-3620
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(604) 420-3610
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John B. Giraud
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Manager
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Management Executive
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(604) 420-3620
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(604) 420-3616
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Environmental Products And Services
Production Of Concrete Materials Using Hazardous By-products.
The silica sands, olivine sands and nickel slag used in metal parts casting operations generate solid wastes in foundries that require landfilling. Target Products developed a processing method that is able to re-use these wastes by incorporating the material in admixtures of dry mix concrete products sold by the company. A number of BC Foundries have been using the waste utilization service rather than sending their wastes to landfills. Target Products Ltd. a Canadian Company operates plants in British Columbia and Alberta, where fly ash from coal-burning generating plants is used in mixing with cement to produce a high quality, high strength, concrete material. Silica fume from the silicon and ferrosilicon industries is used in cement mixes to give enhanced properties.
Recycling Of Glass Bottles.
At Target Products' plant in Morinville, Alberta, glass bottles from the beer and pop industries and from the blue box recycling program are crushed for use in the manufacture of glass and fibreglass and as an abrasive product for the sandblasting industry. The cardboard boxes used as packaging for the glass bottles are compressed into bales and sold to make roofing shingles. Within the industry, Target has been unique in being able to develop glass crushing technology that is able to produce a marketable product as a blasting abrasive, water filtration media or traction media for locomotives. The Canadian Railways have a great concern with the exposure of free silica in their current traction sand. Target is currently studying the possibilities of replacing silica sand with glass for this industry. In many cases glass abrasive is able to meet a combination of service application needs while being free of metal contaminants contained in other abrasive products, which pose environmental hazards when deposited in aquatic environments.
Recycle Waste Products.
Target's life-cycle management concept was adopted as a corporate mission and extended to other waste products associated with their business. The recycling of the waste eliminates the otherwise possible long term liabilities associated with their disposal to on-site or off-site landfills. Energy savings occur when spent blasting abrasives are used in ready-mix concrete products because they directly offset the need for a comparable quantity of sand aggregates. When spent abrasive is used in the production of cement, cement pricing would be more economical to the end user. For example, the High Level Bridge in Edmonton was funded Federally, Provincially and Municipally. There was great concern with the lead paint contamination after the bridge was sandblasted. Target Products Ltd. selected their own silica sand to be used as the abrasive and they also selected Cominco Ltd. in Trail, BC for the complete destruction of the abrasive. Target Products Ltd. supplied approximately 4,000 tons. The savings for disposal on this one job for the Canadian people would have been approximately $2,000,000. Target Products Ltd. offers this spent abrasive disposal service to provide a cost-effective method of reprocessing a waste material to provide a new, useful product and reduce the amount of material being placed in landfills.
Substituting Silica Sand With Glass.
Within the industry, Target has been unique in being able to develop glass crushing technology that is able to produce a marketable product as a blasting abrasive, water filtration media or traction media for locomotives. The Canadian Railways have a great concern with the exposure of free silica in their current traction sand. Target is currently studying the possibilities of replacing silica sand with glass for this industry. In many cases glass abrasive is able to meet a combination of service application needs while being free of metal contaminants contained in other abrasive products, which pose environmental hazards when deposited in aquatic environments..
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