How five years turned into 36 years and ownership for Jeff Baumen at Baumen Ltd. Baumen Ltd. is celebrating 48 years in business this year – but more...
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5G, the fifth generation of connectivity, is here. Faster mobile internet connections and increased bandwidths have the potential to connect billions of people and devices, handle and react quicker to...
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As a team you need a game plan to move forward and win. A team of individuals playing their own game is not the recipe for success. However, when individuals work together, follow...
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Resilience and its counterpart, innovation, are the hallmark of a business’s success. This has never been truer than in the past few years. The ability to learn, pivot and integrate new technology has been a differentiator in outcomes. Here at Baumen we have witnessed some heroic efforts to navigate and strategize around unplanned events. 1 The innovation that has resulted…
Canadian manufacturing has shone brightly during this pandemic demonstrating creativity, adaptability, and resilience as an industry. At the front of the pandemic was our awakening that critical manufacturing such as electronics, PPE, and vaccines, had left Canada. The pandemic further forced us to reckon with our vulnerabilities, particularly to small, microscopic air-borne virus particles and an indoor ventilation infrastructure that…
Manufacturing is the creative expression of the human mind. Throughout history, humans have problem solved and created technology to make life easier. From harnessing fire to using simple tools, manufacturing has allowed humans to build complex machines and societies. It is the most human expression of innovation –to meet a need. Even within the smartest manufacturing plants in the world – it is…
Greta Thunberg. Volcanoes erupting. Australia burning. If we’re listening, we need to ask if what we’re doing is enough to protect the planet and cool the effects of the current and very real climate crisis? As we start a new year and a new decade, we have been inspired by those driving environmental change around the globe. For example, have…
On the night of October 21st, Canadians voted and elected their 43rd government – a Liberal minority government and only the 14th minority government in Canadian history. The significance of this minority government and what it might mean for Canada and our manufacturing partners is what Baumen is paying close attention to as the Liberals appoint their cabinet on November…
The Tariff Effect It’s hard to listen to the news without hearing the word, ‘tariff’. Since March 20181 tariffs have hit Canadian manufacturing industries hard. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) started a show this fall called ‘Cost of Living’. The very first show focused on the sustained uncertainty and unpredictability tariffs have caused in our economy and their far-reaching impact on…
In a special report to Canadian Business (2018) the single largest sector represented in Growth 500 companies in Canada was manufacturing. Across Canada’s provinces, from British Columbia to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, manufacturing in a variety of industries is seeing between 363%-1,635% average 5-year growth.1 Specifically, 705% average growth in Ontario alone.1 What’s exciting is that Canada is moving…
