Corporate Overview of Target Group

Target Products Limited was established & incorporated in 1961, as a privately held firm. In January 2008, the company was acquired by QUIKRETE® headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Employing over 100 people, the British Columbia offices and production facilities are located in Burnaby and Abbotsford, British Columbia. A new state of the art production plant was opened at the Abbotsford location in 2006.

The company has a policy of doing work in house. This policy encompasses everything from equipment design and fabrication, to mix design and product development. This experience and knowledge base has provided the means for the company’s expansion. Target also operates plants in Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Olympia WA. Other subsidiaries include a synthetic sports field division, Target Technologies Inc., an equipment design and manufacturing division, Forge Industrial Engineering, and a materials’ handling division, Team Mixing Technologies Inc. All are located in the Metro – Vancouver area.

Links For The Target Group Of Companies

• Quikrete
• Target Products
• Target Technologies International Inc

Products & Services:

Products – Manufactured, Distributed, Blended

• Abrasives for sand blasting
• Aggregates
• Artificial sports field silica sand blend
• Sports field blended materials
• Filtration Pea Gravel
• Golf Course Top Dressing Sands & Peat
• Grouts & Mortars
• Silica Sands (Industrial & Others)
• Specialized dry mix concrete (self leveling products)
• Specialized concrete building materials (Shotcrete, Steel Fibers for concrete)

Services

• Consulting
• Engineering
• Equipment Design
• Logistics
• Manufacturing & packaging
• Materials’ Handling
• Sales & Marketing

History

Target Products – Burnaby Est. 1961	The company’s original product line was based on the manufacturing and packaging of cementitious mixes primarily for lumberyards and do-it-yourself box stores. These products provide customers with convenient, quality products for small projects. Over time expansion of their product line included packaged materials that are tailored to the industrial market. These include grouts and floor levellers.The company’s sand division distributes a variety of blasting and filter sands. Besides supplying the Burnaby plant with dry aggregates, the Aldergrove plant produces some of the company’s sand products such as engine sand and forestry grit.The golf course and sports field division produces and distributes bunker sands, fairway mixes and greens mixes. Target owns soil blenders equipped with testing equipment and laboratories for blending different soils for the golf course industry. The company has supplied golf courses in Hawaii, Bermuda, Washington, Alberta and British Columbia.
Target – Calgary	Target expanded into the Alberta market with the acquisition of a plant in Calgary. This plant manufactures cementitious products for the Alberta retail market. The plant also produces shotcrete and distributes various blasting products.
Target – Morinville 1994	In 1994 Target purchased a sand drying and screening facility located just outside Edmonton in Morinville, Alberta. Target continues to distribute different blasting media and now processes its own silica sand. Target’s sand is used in a variety of industries such as: sandblasting, filtration, fluid bed power generation, tile grouts, paving joints, and poultry grit.
Mutual Target LLC 1996	A successful joint venture was formed in Seattle, Washington. Mutual Target LLC combines Target’s ability to build plants and design bag mixes with Mutual Material’s ability to sell to lumberyards and masonry contractors.
Cindercrete 1997	Target’s technical expertise as Western Canada’s leading shotcrete supplier to the Mining Industry combined with the tradition of Cindercrete Products in Saskatchewan (in 1997) led to the creation of Cindercrete Mining Supplies, a company dedicated to supplying the Saskatchewan market with shotcrete, grouts, shotcrete equipment and sandblasting materials.With plants serving Western Canada and the USA Target also has representatives in South America and the Pacific Rim.
Target Technologies International Inc. 2002	Target Technologies International Inc (TTII) is incorporated in 2002 as a new division of the Target Products Group of Companies. TTII is a virtual sales and marketing company offering quality products and supply chain management logistics services. TTII acts as a procurement agent, representing both vendors and buyers. TTII supplies many different products into one of its niche markets: the artificial sports field industry. TTII sources and delivers quality products across North America, Central America, South America and world-wide – on time!