Two local manufacturing companies are joining forces to expand their portfolios globally.
Active Industrial Solutions has acquired Radix and together the companies hope to bring innovation to the manufacturing sector.
"They take us into vision, and software development and very good with controls, all areas of expertise that we don't have at the moment," says Chuck Curtiss, president of AIS Automation.
VP of Operations at Radix Shelley Fellows says they are the problem solvers for automation and tool and dye plants.
"Those kinds of unusual and advanced technologies, those are the innovations that are going to put our manufacturers in Canada and the manufacturers in the U.S. head and shoulders above the rest of the world," says Fellows. Company officials say they are on a rapid growth curve and expect to double the current employment of around 400 employees in the next four years. In the immediate future the companies will hold a job fair in June to fill 35 positions. "We'll be looking for those highly skilled, highly qualified individuals that Windsor-Essex is so known for. Skilled trade electricians, millwrights, machinists, engineers, designers, software developers, those people who make us so very strong as a region and we love to bring in our respective AIS and Radix teams," says Fellows.
