Finning gets into power game
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Equipment-maker Finning International is expanding into the generator-set market, with two key acquisitions.
Finning will be purchasing 35 per cent of Maxim Power Corp., a Calgary-based small power plant maker, and the company will be also be buying Diperk, an engine and gen-set distribution company in Chile.
“We formed a separate global power and energy systems group in 2001 to be able to take advantage of the growth in this sector,” says Doug Whitehead, Finning’s chief executive.
Finning sells, rents, finances and supports Caterpillar equipment and engines in Western Canada and overseas.
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