In addition to re-establishing corporate operations at the plant site with our new offices during the first two weeks, the last of the month saw significant progress on the demolition of the damaged structure and remediation of salvageable tooling and production equipment.

The Before

The Now – A clean slab to start fresh.

Our next steps on the demo are to finish removing the remaining debris and then test our concrete to see if it is structurally sound.  That will help make decisions on location and design of the new factory.  We are fortunate to have plenty of land at our site if we need to shift the site of the factory.

While the demo was occuring, our team was also working to setup temporary fabrication operations.

Mobile tent structures that can be broken down and saved in the containers for future field use.

These structures will help conduct temporary operations and keep everyone out of the August heat.

We are also performing maintenance and rehabilitation on salvageable molds and production equipment.  This is much needed work that is always difficult to find time to perform so we are making the most of the production downtime.

One of our large mandrels in need of some TLC.

That’s Better!

We’ve also been working on touch ups on other upcoming tooling needs.

It won’t be long before we are performing work at the site again and slowly but surely we will be back on our feet soon.  Continued thanks to all for the well wishes and support.   Keep it coming!

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Since the fire, our production team and Diamond Services team have continued working at the plant while the office staff  were at temporary facilities.

Our first office setup at our attorney’s office conference room (very tight)

Our second office at the Courtyard Hotel in Victoria.  A special thanks to the team at the hotel for their support and accommodating our group and doing a great job making us feel at home.

In addition to a significant amount of client related activities during the prior two weeks, we have been working to obtain office space back at the plant.

We put together a triple wide trailer and had it wired for power, internet and plumbed for water sewer. While we were making the move to the new office, the road base was being installed for a new parking lot.

So this is our third move in three weeks and hopefully our last for a while

New Triple Wide Office Space.  This will be our new HQ during construction.

On the shop side, tear down has begun and we are making great progress.  The demolition contractor has cleared the front office steel and is working back to front.  As of today, its about 30% cleared.

Plant looking West.  The entire area on the left side of the picture was formerly our office and front fitting bays.  The tall structure is the back fitting bay.

Thanks to all for your continued support and we’ll post some closer shots of the tear down shortly.

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