History
- 1956-1991
- 1992-1996
- 1997-1998
- 1999
- 2000-2010
- 2011-2012
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ADF began its operations in 1956 as a blacksmith shop named "Au Dragon Forgé", founded and operated by Jacques Paschini, whose children, Jean, Pierre and Marise Paschini, became the principal shareholders and officers of the Company in the early 1980's.
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Jacques (Giacomo) Paschini,
founder of the Company |
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One of the first street signs
of the blacksmith shop |
Au Dragon Forgé's old facilities in
Ste. Rose, Laval |
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| ADF started expanding its activities in the U.S.A., where the structural steel market was growing. As a result, ADF obtained larger contracts, mostly in the commercial and recreational sectors. | ||
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Walt Disney Boardwalk
(Orlando, FL, U.S.A.) |
Reedy Creek Sports Complex
(Kissimee, FL, U.S.A.) |
American Indian Museum
(Suitland, MD, U.S.A.) |
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In April 1997, the Company moved its main production operations to a new plant in Terrebonne, Quebec, which maximized the utilization of high-technology, computerized and fully automated production lines |
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Head office and new fabrication plant in Terrebonne (1997)
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Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
(San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.) |
Alcan Smelter Plant
(Alma, Quebec, Canada) |
Ravens NFL Stadium
(Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.) |
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In July 1999, ADF became a public company which shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (Ticket symbol: DRX). |
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Memphis Cook Convention Center
(Memphis,TN, U.S.A.) |
U.S. Federal Courthouse
(New York, NY, U.S.A.) |
Ultramar Refinery
(St.Romuald, Quebec, Canada) |
After doubling the size of the fabrication plant in 2000 by adding new fabrication and storage bays, the Company invested, in 2007-2008, in the refitting of one of its storage bays into a new fabrication bay (the fifth one), and in purchasing the latest-generation equipment and CNC machines, increasing the fabrication capacity to more than 100,000 tons per year.
Airports, high-rises, industrial complexes, performing arts centers and sports complexes are just a few of the contracts the Company completed during this period.
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Goldman Sachs Head Office (New York, NY, U.S.A.) |
O'Hare International Airport Canopy (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.) |
Passenger Automated Transport L.B. Pearson (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
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New World Symphony America's Orchestral Academy (Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.) |
Holcim Cement PLant (Ste.Genevieve, MO, U.S.A.) |
EnCana Tower (The Bow) (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) |
ADF is also awarded some of its most complex engineering and fabrication contracts ever, those related to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site: the One World Trade Center tower and its antenna, the 4 World Trade Center tower, and the WTC Transportation Hub, in New York.
The Company pursues the fabrication of the World Trade Center extremely complex steel structures in New York, of which heavy build-up steel components and trial-assemblies of remarkable dimensions.
One World Trade Center |
WTC Transportation Hub |
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One of the corner nodes near the 20th floor
(New York, NY, U.S.A.) |
Hub complex steel component (New York, NY, U.S.A.) |
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4 World Trade Center
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WTC Transportation Hub |
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Trial-assembly of an oversized steel truss of the tower (New York, NY, U.S.A.) |
Triall-assembly of the East Box Girder (New York, NY, U.S.A.) |
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ADF keeps strenghtening its position as a North American leader in structural steel, and developing the overseas market by entering into strategic alliances with major engineering firms and steel fabricators who have a continued presence on the international scene.