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Sault Ste. Marie

Making their mark in industry

By IAN ROSS It’s a little-known operation on Industrial Park Crescent, but the Nelson Paint Company of Canada has marked their spot with foresters, loggers and surveyors across Canada.

Home design software wins IT award for Sault company

IDI Technology emerged the big winner at the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre’s SSMart IT Awards, Sept. 29.

Trade mission to China

By Ian Ross Northern Ontario manufacturers can get a first-hand glimpse next spring of the eye-popping economic growth in China. The Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce and the Sault Ste.

Empowering Algoma Steel with energy

By IAN ROSS While Algoma Steel searches for a new international partner to build wind towers, the Sault Ste. Marie steelmaker is investing $135 million in a co-generation facility.

Intermodal begins in SSM

By IAN ROSS Intermodal shipping is taking its first fledgling steps in Sault Ste. Marie with a new 60,000-square-foot terminal in the city’s west end. The $3 million Sault Intermodal Inc.

What a dream: partners win $8,600

By MARIE CLARKE Sault Ste. Marie – Pam Dalton and Katie Oberegger probably never thought they would be handed a trophy for daydreaming.

EDC looks to boost sagging tourism industry

By IAN ROSS Re-invigorating the Sault’s sagging tourism industry is among the priority issues for the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation (EDC).

College developing low-cost fix for water in remote locales

By IAN ROSS Sault College may have a low-cost solution to the plight of the Kashechewan Crees and other remote communities suffering chronic water quality problems. Staff members from several departments there are collaborating with the Sault Ste.

Government jobs still bleeding out of city

By IAN ROSS The transfer of eight federal fisheries employees out of Sault Ste. Marie has city officials and politicians wondering if the exodus of civil servants from the community is still continuing.

All-in-one house design tool has Home Depot courting

By IAN ROSS Mark Maki knows the value of a cold call. The Sault Ste. Marie software developer and president of IDI Technology thought he had a web-based communications tool that might appeal to the second largest retailer in the world.