SNC-Lavalin
SNC-Lavalin , founded in 1991 by the fusion of SNC and Lavalin, is a firm of Ingénierie whose head office is with Montreal. By the number of employees, it is classified among the 10 larger firms of the kind in the world. According to its corporative Web site, it has offices in about thirty country.
Description
This firm provides primarily labor to conceive and manage various works asking for an expertise in civil engineering (buildings, roads, systems of aqueduct, etc) or in energy (thermo plant, for example).In 2005, it provides services of engineering, provisioning, construction, project management and financing of project in various economic branches of industry: chemical products and Pétrole, mine S and Métallurgie, Pharmaceutique, Agroalimentaire, all that touches with civil engineering, energy, Environnement, military defense and Télécommunication S.
History
This company is the fusion of two firms of engineering: SNC and Lavalin.Jacques Lamarre, the brother of Bernard Lamarre, ex-owner of Lavalin, is at present the president of the SNC-Lavalin firm.
February 23rd, 2006, SNC-Lavalin sells its subsidiary company SNC Technologies, specialized in the propelling powders, with General Dynamics for the sum of 315 million dollars CA ().
According to the Canadian Press of September 30th, 2007, SNC-Lavalin would have become the first firm of engineering in the world preceding the USSR, of San Francisco (the USA). Its sales turnover exceeding the 5 billion $ in 2006.
See too
Related articles
- SNC
- BPR
External bonds
- Official site
- On Lavalin
- Google Chart of the head office, with Montreal