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Fortis Sets It's Sights on Fabricating Skid Steer Attachments for Sister Company

In an effort to diversify it's fabricating services, Fortis has begun fabricating high quality Skid Steer Attachments exclusively for their sister company Certified Mining & Construction Sales & Rentals. Certified has a vast client base to go along with a diversified list of products for the Construction, Mining, and Agriculture industries. Certified regularly sells Skid Steers, Skid Steer Attachments and similar types of equipment. In the past, Certified's Skid Steer Attachments were purchased by a third party manufacturer. Certified began selling a significant amount of attachments to companies all over Saskatchewan. At that point, Certified contacted Fortis and asked if this was something they would consider fabricating for them. Of course, Fortis took up the challenge!

Fortis now fabricates a number of attachments including:

  • Smooth Dirt Buckets
  • Tooth Dirt Bucks
  • Tree Scoops
  • Stump Buckets
  • Forklift Jib Booms
  • Skid Steer Jib Booms
  • Hydraulic Skid Steer Jib Booms
  • Trailer Hitch Attachment
  • Blank Quick Attach Plates
  • Snow Buckets
All buckets are fabricated with AR400 Cutting Edges. Lifting Jibs are Engineered and Load Rated. 

Fortis is ISO 9001 Certified and a CWB Certified Fabrication Shop. You can be confident that all products fabricated by Fortis are of the highest quality. 

Fork Lift Lifting Boom



Contact Certified directly to purchase Skid Steer Attachments:
Phone: 306-384-8593
Toll Free: 1-844-384-8593
sales@certifiedsalesandrentals.com

Fortis is well known for their engineering and fabrication capabilities in the mining and construction industries. They have fabricated hundred's of different types of products ranging from Wire Rope Reel Winders to Galloways. Visit Fortis' Fabrication page for examples of completed projects: https://www.fortiscorporation.com/projects-fabrication.aspx 



Contact Fortis for a quote on your next fabrication project
Phone: 306-242-4427
Toll Free: 1-844-542-2247
Email: info@fortiscorporation.com

Fortis Fabricates Torpedo Counterweights for International Customer

Fortis was contracted by Kibali Gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo to perform consulting and procedure work. The consultation resulted in a order to Northern Strands, Fortis' sister company, for a torpedo Counterweight. Fortis manufactured the torpedo for Northern Strands to sell to Kibali Gold. The purpose of the torpedo is to increase safety and the efficiency of the client's operations. 

The Torpedo Counterweight is used as a rope end attachment, adding weight to end of a hoist or reeving rope. This helps to keep rolling back over a sheave in the headframe (or otherwise) if the rope weight from the hoist to the sheave exceeds the rope weight from the sheave down to the highest point you will need to hoist the rope end. 

The Torpedo Counterweight is an engineered in-line counterweight that adds a lot of functionality and mitigates risks involved while doing rope work. The unit was pull tested (proof loaded) at 50,000 pounds, which is 2.5 times the working load limit. This test was completed in Fortis' horizontal test bed. The unit was then visually and non-destructively (mag-particle) tested following the proof loading. 
Shipped in an International shipping container, the Torpedo Counterweight along with additional rigging products then left the Saskatoon Warehouse and travelled to Kibali Gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 
If your business needs consulting, procedure development, and manufacturing work completed, please contact us! 


Fortis Mining Engineering Manufacturing
802, 57th Street East
Saskatoon, SK S7K 5Z

Custom Mine Shaft Skip Dolly Fabricated by Fortis

Fortis was recently contracted to manufactured a Mine Shaft Skip Dolly for Nutrien Allan. The skip is rested on the dolly and then is picked up at the other end using a loader to help with easy maneuvering when loading. 


This Skip Dolly is site specific, but Fortis is able to manufacture and modify them for additional sites and uses. 



This Skip Dolly was manufactured to replace an old non-engineered model. 


Other examples of Fortis fabrication and engineering include:
  • Jib cranes
  • Spreader bars / lifting beams / lifting devices
  • Monorails
  • D-plates
  • Deflection sheaves
  • Reel unwinder
  • Reel transportation trailers
  • Explosive transporter
  • Mobile reel handlers
  • Material baskets
  • Man baskets
  • Electrical Cable Brackets
  • Mine site shaft steel
  • Concert buckets
  • Working Platforms / Head covers
  • Brine tanks
  • Handrail
  • Specialized products for mining industries
  • Fall protection anchors
  • Galloways
  • Gin Cart
  • Custom Mobile Reel handlers
  • Explosives Cabinet
  • Emergency Man Capsule
  • Zim Car
  • Reel Trailer

If you are interested in more information about Fortis' Manufacturing and other capabilities, click here: https://www.fortiscorporation.com/ 

Contact Us

802, 57th Street East
Saskatoon, SK S7K 5Z1

Phone: (306) 242-4427
Toll Free: (844) 542-2247
Fax: (306) 242-3713
Email: info@fortiscorporation.com

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Fortis Engineering & Manufacturing is One of the First Companies in Canada to Receive ISO 45001-2018 Certification

Fortis Engineering & Manufacturing Inc. has successfully been audited by an expert third party certifier for ISO Quality Management System (QMS) and is pleased to announce that it meets all the requirements of ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001-2016, and ISO 45001-2018 and are certified to these Standards.

ISO 45001-2018
  • A new International Standards (formally OHSAS 18001) that specifies requirements for an Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) management system, to enable Fortis to proactively improve OH&S performance in preventing injury and ill-health. Fortis is one of the first companies in Canada to achieve this Standard
ISO 45001-18 demonstrates that Fortis is committed to improve OH&S performance by:
  • Developing and implementing an OH&S policy and OH&S objectives
  • Establishing systematic processes which consider its "context" and which consider its risks and opportunities, legal, and other requirements 
  • Determining the hazards and OH&S risks associated with its activities; seeking to eliminate them, or putting in controls to minimize their potential effects
  • Establishing operational controls to manage its OH&S risks and its legal and other requirements 
ISO 9001-2015
ISO 9001-15 demonstrates that Fortis is committed to:
  • Total quality management
  • Customer focus
  • A continuous improvement process approach implemented throughout the organization
  • Critical processes and their interactions are understood and documented
  • A strong management commitment to all these facets of the ISO 9001 
  • Integrating Risk Management into all aspects of the business 
ISO 14001-2016
  • Environmental Management System (EMS) is a systematic framework to manage the immediate and long-term environmental impacts of Fortis' products, services, and processes. Through Certification in this Standard, Fortis can assure stakeholders that our environmental management system meets international industry specific environmental standards.
ISO 14001-2016 demonstrates that Fortis is committed to:
  • Minimize the environmental footprint
  • Diminish the risk of pollution incidents
  • Provide operational improvements
  • Ensure compliance with relevant environmental legislation
  • Develop their business in a sustainable manner
  • Identify cost savings with greater emphasis on resource, waste, and energy management
  • Increasing awareness of OH&S risks
  • Evaluating its OH&S performance and seeking to improve it, by taking appropriate actions
  • Ensuring workers take an active role in OH&S matters

How Quality Control Affects Fabrication, Machining and Welding Safety

At Fortis we have really come to respect how much quality affects safety. 

Our Quality Assurance Coordinator, Ken Ross states, "At Fortis we clearly understand the correlation between quality of product and safety. If you aren’t in control of the quality of your product, you can potentially (even though unintentionally) cause injury or death to others. We’ve all seen examples of this in the auto industry when defects such as wiring issues caused fire, tires blew out and accelerators stuck causing several injuries and deaths."

Fortis understands one of the keys to success is getting employees to “buy in” on the shop floor. One of the ways to get that “buy in” is to educate your work force to ensure they understand what can happen when we deviate from the quality control processes that we have in place. If you have any kind of a quality control system in place, you know how important it is to: question something that doesn’t look right, document any issues (even if they are small), communicate between steps, take the time to double check or have someone verify your work, sign off the appropriate steps, have qualified person check along the way, etc.

Our philosophy has been “Think of the news article”. When disaster strikes the news reports are often cruel and misleading, reporters don’t worry about the small details of what really happened or whose reputation they are destroying. It’s bad enough that someone was injured or killed, now the ripple effect starts. If you consider the news article approach, you are more apt to take the time to double check and be very particular as to what you are checking and signing off.

We coach people only to sign quality control steps that they agree with, to add comments, to seek further explanation and bring issues to their Supervisor’s attention. For example, a welder finishes the last welds on a unit before it goes on to the next step in the process, he or she didn’t complete the welds on top of the unit and doesn’t like the look of them, the welder should sign “I didn’t complete these first welds on the top of this unit, I question whether or not they meet our standards. Please have our Welding Inspector and/or Supervisor re-check them and sign off.” If the welds were up to our standard, then we coach the welder as to how to meet them and (most importantly) thank them for raising the concern. If they weren’t up to standard this person may have potentially saved the lives of people, saved our reputation and kept us out of a news article.

Recap:  

  • Quality will affect safety
  • Get control of the quality checks on the shop floor
  • Educate your workforce -Don’t sign off on a step that you aren’t happy with, ask questions, write comments, and/or ask for a second opinion, etc.
  • Think of the news article approach.
Fortis has taken it's quality control to the highest level by achieving ISO 9001 certification. ISO 9001 is the international standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system (QMS). Organizations use the standard to demonstrate the ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and regulatory requirements. 

Contact Fortis Mining Engineering and Manufacturing to inquire about our fabrication, machining and welding services. We have CNC machining capabilities and our welding shop is CWB certified. 

Phone: (306) 242-4427
Toll Free: (844) 542-2247
Email: info@fortiscorporation.com 


Fortis Mining Engineering and Manufacturing is proudly Saskatoon, Saskatchewan owned and operated.

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