Thursday, 31 May 2018
#DavisControls would like to thank everyone who came out to visit us at the DEX 2018 and CPECN 2018 trade shows
#DavisControls would like to thank everyone who came out to visit us at:
DEX Design Engineering EXPO Moncton
MAY 29, 2018
and
Nova Scotia Process & Automation Show
MAY 30, 2018
Come out and see us at our next show:
FABTECH Canada
Toronto Congress Centre (South Building)
650 Dixon Road
Etobicoke, ON, M9W1J1
Tel: 416 245-5000
JUNE 12-14, 2018
Monday, 14 May 2018
#DavisControls would like to thank everyone who came out to visit the Davis Controls booth - CPECN Southern Ontario - May 10, 2018 - Ian Hegi from Davis Controls and Stephen Kalau from ABB pictured.
Our next show will be the DEX Design Engineering EXPO Moncton on May 29, 2018 - for more info go to: https://www.dexexpo.com/attend/
Our next show will be the DEX Design Engineering EXPO Moncton on May 29, 2018 - for more info go to: https://www.dexexpo.com/attend/
Friday, 29 July 2016
Davis Controls Ltd. - What’s New In The Neighborhood In 2016?
What’s New In the Neighborhood In 2016 ?
Exactly one year ago today, I posted a blog about the construction of a new engineering office building across the street and I recall wondering then, who our new neighbours might be. Today, one year later, the construction is complete, the parking lot is paved and lined, trees and shrubs have been planted and the irrigation system has been running non-stop during our recent heat wave….and we are still wondering who our new neighbours will be. The lights are on, but there is nobody home?
Here is a sample of the price of admission:
- Est. Monthly Rent: $82,368
- Floor: 7
- Size 27,648 SF
- Gross Rent $35.75/SF
- Base Rent $24.00/SF
- Additional Rent $11.75/SF
- Availability Now
Hopefully this new complex has been designed with an upscale cafeteria that will give DCL / Oakville employees one more dining option for lunch. Not that there is a shortage of dining options already. In addition to the dozen or so fast food outlets within a 5 minute drive, we already have several dining (fine and otherwise) choices within a 5 minute walk. The 24 cinema theatre complex just around the corner is surrounded by no less than 12 eateries ranging from elegant to unsophisticated.
In this same complex, they are currently renovating the building that used to house LA Fitness. This facility will soon become the new home of Dave & Busters.
Billed as the ONLY place to Eat, Drink, Play & Watch Sports all under one roof, at Dave & Buster's visitors can play hundreds of the hottest new arcade games in the Million Dollar Midway. AND, there will be even more places to eat, from wings to steaks, as well as a premium bar featuring innovative cocktails, an impressive wine selection and more than 20 selections of beer. Sounds like my kind of place! You will soon be able to watch your team on one of the massive HDTVs with epic stadium sound that will surround you from every direction in the sports bar.
Our little corner of Winston Churchill Business Park is quickly becoming a major center of Leading edge Technology, Engineered Solutions, Fine Dining, After Hours Clubs and Entertainment.
Exactly one year ago today, I posted a blog about the construction of a new engineering office building across the street and I recall wondering then, who our new neighbours might be. Today, one year later, the construction is complete, the parking lot is paved and lined, trees and shrubs have been planted and the irrigation system has been running non-stop during our recent heat wave….and we are still wondering who our new neighbours will be. The lights are on, but there is nobody home?
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Here is a sample of the price of admission:
- Est. Monthly Rent: $82,368
- Floor: 7
- Size 27,648 SF
- Gross Rent $35.75/SF
- Base Rent $24.00/SF
- Additional Rent $11.75/SF
- Availability Now
Hopefully this new complex has been designed with an upscale cafeteria that will give DCL / Oakville employees one more dining option for lunch. Not that there is a shortage of dining options already. In addition to the dozen or so fast food outlets within a 5 minute drive, we already have several dining (fine and otherwise) choices within a 5 minute walk. The 24 cinema theatre complex just around the corner is surrounded by no less than 12 eateries ranging from elegant to unsophisticated.
In this same complex, they are currently renovating the building that used to house LA Fitness. This facility will soon become the new home of Dave & Busters.
Billed as the ONLY place to Eat, Drink, Play & Watch Sports all under one roof, at Dave & Buster's visitors can play hundreds of the hottest new arcade games in the Million Dollar Midway. AND, there will be even more places to eat, from wings to steaks, as well as a premium bar featuring innovative cocktails, an impressive wine selection and more than 20 selections of beer. Sounds like my kind of place! You will soon be able to watch your team on one of the massive HDTVs with epic stadium sound that will surround you from every direction in the sports bar.
Our little corner of Winston Churchill Business Park is quickly becoming a major center of Leading edge Technology, Engineered Solutions, Fine Dining, After Hours Clubs and Entertainment.
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Davis Controls Ltd. - So much to do…so little time.
So much to do…so little time.
For three days, March 13 – 15, 2016, the city of New Orleans played host to ‘The Danfoss Drives Conference’, billed as the world’s largest Drives conference, with more than 50 speakers, 80 breakout sessions and 600 VFD experts in attendance. One of the main objectives of the conference was to present the ‘New’ Danfoss Drives organization and extended portfolio created through the acquisition of Vacon. In addition to new product launch announcements, business news and highlights, AC drive application case studies and success stories, discussions about current megatrends and insights into the AC drives future, attendees were encouraged to embrace the Jazz club / gangster / speak-easy look of New Orleans in the 1930’s. Thankfully there was no prohibition this week and Brent O’Connor and I did our best to blend in.
The event was so successful that Danfoss decided to take the show on the road and from June 8 – 10, 2016, hosted a similar but smaller Canadian forum at the Four Points by Sheraton, Niagara Falls Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Davis Controls took full advantage of this local Canadian conference by sending 15 of our own sales reps, who in turn each invited VFD customers from their respective sales territories. The event was a huge success and Danfoss plans to continue this initiative with other sales and customer events in the future.
For the Ontario sales reps, the training didn’t end with Danfoss. On June 21, Naas DeJager from ABB Measurement Products conducted an Actuator & Positioner portfolio overview as well as sales and technical training on the TZIDC / EDP300 products, including Programming & Diagnostics. Then on the second day, the four Product Managers of the Pressure, Temperature, Analytical, Recording & Control and Flow portfolios presented an overview with highlights of their products, complete with sales success stories and helpful selling tips.
Within the last 30 days, our Business Development Managers have been out to work with our people in Vancouver and Saskatchewan, manning trade shows in Dartmouth NS and making joint calls with our team in Montreal. On July 12, we are off to Los Alamitos, California to visit our friends at Flowline and learn all about their next generation of products and soon we will be in Winnipeg and then Vancouver again to make more joint calls with our people there. There is a lot going on right now and while we can’t be everywhere, we are doing our best to be where we are needed when it counts.
www.daviscontrols.com
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| Brent O'Connor and Neil Montgomery at Danfoss Drives Conference - March 2016 - New Orleans |
The event was so successful that Danfoss decided to take the show on the road and from June 8 – 10, 2016, hosted a similar but smaller Canadian forum at the Four Points by Sheraton, Niagara Falls Fallsview in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Davis Controls took full advantage of this local Canadian conference by sending 15 of our own sales reps, who in turn each invited VFD customers from their respective sales territories. The event was a huge success and Danfoss plans to continue this initiative with other sales and customer events in the future.
For the Ontario sales reps, the training didn’t end with Danfoss. On June 21, Naas DeJager from ABB Measurement Products conducted an Actuator & Positioner portfolio overview as well as sales and technical training on the TZIDC / EDP300 products, including Programming & Diagnostics. Then on the second day, the four Product Managers of the Pressure, Temperature, Analytical, Recording & Control and Flow portfolios presented an overview with highlights of their products, complete with sales success stories and helpful selling tips.
Within the last 30 days, our Business Development Managers have been out to work with our people in Vancouver and Saskatchewan, manning trade shows in Dartmouth NS and making joint calls with our team in Montreal. On July 12, we are off to Los Alamitos, California to visit our friends at Flowline and learn all about their next generation of products and soon we will be in Winnipeg and then Vancouver again to make more joint calls with our people there. There is a lot going on right now and while we can’t be everywhere, we are doing our best to be where we are needed when it counts.
www.daviscontrols.com
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Davis Controls Ltd. - The Neighbourhood is Changing
The Neighbourhood is Changing
For twenty seven years, our view looking out from Davis Controls across the street toward Winston Churchill Blvd. has been that of a few acres of vacant field covered with weeds and scrub. This all began to change early this year when the land was cleared for what will soon become 869 parking spaces surrounding a new seven story engineering building, which is now well under way and should be glassed in by the end of July. This property was one of the few remaining undeveloped properties in the park and while the new building partially blocks our early morning view of the rising sun, we welcome the change of scenery and look forward to meeting our new neighbours. Having 869 additional cars spilling out onto Bristol Circle every night might complicate the drive home, but on a positive note, we will be able to walk to these sales calls.
While we’ve been watching the construction project across the street, we became aware that the front corner garden, planted when our building was built in 1989, has matured, and in the case of the sprawling junipers, has become overgrown. The oak trees are now well established and provide a nice canopy over the entire front corner, but the original garden underneath was in need of a makeover. With a little bit of TLC, we have transformed the front corner so that it no longer hides our main entrance and once again exposes our front door, sign and lobby.
I recall that when we were looking for a place to move to from 4251 Dundas St. W, one of the things we liked best about this property was that it was strategically located at one of the main entrances to the business park. It would be a shame to allow this prestigious location to become untidy or unkempt. Cosmetic upgrades like these are necessary from time to time to maintain a clean, fresh and colourful appearance and this was a transformation whose time had come. I’m sure that they will install some attractive landscaping across the street and we want to be sure to look just as good as they do.
www.daviscontrols.com
For twenty seven years, our view looking out from Davis Controls across the street toward Winston Churchill Blvd. has been that of a few acres of vacant field covered with weeds and scrub. This all began to change early this year when the land was cleared for what will soon become 869 parking spaces surrounding a new seven story engineering building, which is now well under way and should be glassed in by the end of July. This property was one of the few remaining undeveloped properties in the park and while the new building partially blocks our early morning view of the rising sun, we welcome the change of scenery and look forward to meeting our new neighbours. Having 869 additional cars spilling out onto Bristol Circle every night might complicate the drive home, but on a positive note, we will be able to walk to these sales calls.  |
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www.daviscontrols.com
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Davis Controls Ltd. - 2014 in Review
2014 in Review
This year marked our 25th Anniversary at 2200 Bristol Circle in Oakville. Our Twenty Fifth year in our ‘new’ building (I really must stop calling it that) has been one of those generational milestone years where everything original is wearing out:
• The phenolic foam roof needed to be replaced
• The HVAC system is nearing the end of its life
• The foundation plants that were part of our original landscape plan are either just starting to develop into beautiful mature trees ... or … have just reached the end of their life expectancy and have started to die
• The IT infrastructure that was state–of–the–art twenty five years ago has already been replaced FIVE times
• The fluorescent lights and fixtures throughout our office and warehouse are old and inefficient and replacement energy-hungry tubes will soon be hard to find
• The parking lot needs resurfacing – again
• The office décor is in need of a makeover
I don’t mean to sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas. This list might actually become my Christmas gift list. In fact, these maintenance benchmarks are not problems. They are the naturally occurring scars and blemishes of a corporate veteran that has survived most of the material things used to conduct business long enough to even have this anniversary.
The really important things however are not wearing out. As we head into 2015, we are even more enthusiastic, more positive and more prepared for growth than ever before.
• Davis Controls Ltd has been in business in Canada for 81 years
• This year we are surpassing our previous sales record year by more than 20%
• We continue to add new Products and Technologies and people to support them
• New lines, new people and new R&D developments from established suppliers continue to breathe new life into our applications scope and solution capabilities
In many ways, 2014 was a year of positioning and investment in an even more promising future that begins with 2015.
From all of us here at Davis Controls Ltd. to our valued client and provider partners, we wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year.
www.daviscontrols.com
This year marked our 25th Anniversary at 2200 Bristol Circle in Oakville. Our Twenty Fifth year in our ‘new’ building (I really must stop calling it that) has been one of those generational milestone years where everything original is wearing out:
• The phenolic foam roof needed to be replaced
• The HVAC system is nearing the end of its life
• The foundation plants that were part of our original landscape plan are either just starting to develop into beautiful mature trees ... or … have just reached the end of their life expectancy and have started to die
• The IT infrastructure that was state–of–the–art twenty five years ago has already been replaced FIVE times
• The fluorescent lights and fixtures throughout our office and warehouse are old and inefficient and replacement energy-hungry tubes will soon be hard to find
• The parking lot needs resurfacing – again
• The office décor is in need of a makeover
I don’t mean to sound like the Grinch who stole Christmas. This list might actually become my Christmas gift list. In fact, these maintenance benchmarks are not problems. They are the naturally occurring scars and blemishes of a corporate veteran that has survived most of the material things used to conduct business long enough to even have this anniversary.
The really important things however are not wearing out. As we head into 2015, we are even more enthusiastic, more positive and more prepared for growth than ever before.
• Davis Controls Ltd has been in business in Canada for 81 years
• This year we are surpassing our previous sales record year by more than 20%
• We continue to add new Products and Technologies and people to support them
• New lines, new people and new R&D developments from established suppliers continue to breathe new life into our applications scope and solution capabilities
In many ways, 2014 was a year of positioning and investment in an even more promising future that begins with 2015.
From all of us here at Davis Controls Ltd. to our valued client and provider partners, we wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year.
www.daviscontrols.com
Monday, 26 May 2014
Davis Controls Ltd. - Where has the Time Gone?
As I think back nostalgically about the 25
years that we have been at 2200 Bristol Circle, I remember the people that have
come and gone and the product lines that we have represented since moving to
Oakville. I recall friendships and
relationships that have been important to our success and I think about all the
work that has been done here by all the people that have worked here.
Mostly I remember the fun that we’ve had
along the way; the parties and barbeques and meetings and dinners and
conferences and the social interactions around the office. I look at the people that I work with today
and then I look back through our photo albums at pictures of those same people,
5, 10, 20, even 40 years ago and I smile.
I thought of writing this posting just
yesterday, when a visiting supplier asked me if the office was new. When I explained that in fact we were
celebrating our 25th anniversary in this building, it dawned on
me. Twenty Five Years – WOW, where has
the time gone! I thanked him for the
compliment and said: No, we’ve been here
for a while and since business is good, we’re not planning on going anywhere
else soon.
www.daviscontrols.com
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