The Bellemare group from Trois-Rivières in the Mauricie region will draw up a concrete production plan to build future factories in Bécancour in the Center-du-Québec region when the emergence of the battery industry is already attracting other companies.
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It will be a $5 million investment with about twenty jobs.
“We are currently building a high-tech concrete plant with high production in Bécancour. In view of the large-scale work to be done on the Laviolette Bridge and the upcoming mega-projects, we wanted to gain a foothold in the Bécancour area,” reveals Thomas Bellemare, project manager at Groupe Bellemare.
The family business Fournelle in Bécancour does not want to miss this opportunity either. It is preparing to start construction of an automated factory to house modules, walls, floors and roofs to speed up the construction of neighborhoods in Bécancour to accommodate hundreds if not thousands of future workers.
“We should be able to accelerate the execution speed of our sites by three to four times to meet the demand that comes with the battery sector,” said Jérémie Fournelle of Fournelle CO.
The member representing Nicolet-Bécancour considered it important for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to break into the battery industry.
“It’s part of my mission and part of the strategy to create jobs and let our subcontractors benefit as much as possible from all the spinoffs,” argued Donald Martel.
Groupe Bellemare’s concrete plant can be installed quickly and put into operation next summer. It will be semi-portable and have a large production capacity.
The company does not want to reveal anything about its recipe, but its concrete will be ecological. At least we know it will contain recycled materials.