// COMPANY DOSSIER
Mill-Right Woodworking Inc.
Architectural millwork shop producing custom cabinetry, casework, store fixtures, and commercial furniture (boardroom tables, retail checkouts, kiosks) for retail, hospitality, corporate, and institutional clients. Affiliated with general contractor RCS Construction.
📍 Bedford, Nova Scotia, CanadaEst. 1999✓ 80% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM Mill-Right Woodworking Inc.
“i met a guy on a plane that was running chc helicopters”
“we immediately made a lot of changes significant changes in the office”
“i started on a construction site sweeping floors and i just worked my way up”
“sub trades are no different than your own employees”
“the reason i bring it up my old boss that was one of my mentors when i first started”
“there's the old rule that 20 60 20 it's a harvard business study”
“i can tell you one and it's not a real big project but it was big enough”
“i was a little messed up to be honest having the baby at such a young age”
“this was an 08 going into nine and you know an 08 that had already fallen in the us”
// LESSONS FROM Mill-Right Woodworking Inc.
Process is the bridge from a small company to a mid-sized one — most employees need process to deliver consistently, regardless of who the client deals with.
Installing an operating system (EOS/Traction) — including firing key staff not in the right seats — took RCS from roughly $60M to $100M in sales in two years.
Profit papers over partner conflict; the real test of a partnership only arrives when the money stops — RCS's partner breakups came in the 2009 downturn.
Apply the 20/60/20 rule: don't try to move people two notches — give the average 60% process and tools instead of trying to rescue underachievers.
Pay sub-trades within 48 hours of receiving the owner's check, as written policy — it built 25 years of trade loyalty with only one lawsuit, settled out of court.
Treat sub-trades like your own employees: on negotiated CM work, shortlist three capable trades rather than sole-sourcing, and pay up front when a sub is short on cash.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Pier 21 Museum (Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21)
CompletedArchitectural millwork / casework
Listed by Mill-Right as a completed historic project; no date or dollar value disclosed by the company.
Halifax Central Library
CompletedArchitectural millwork / casework
Listed by Mill-Right as a completed project; the library opened in 2014. No millwork-specific date or value disclosed.
RBC Corporate Offices
CompletedArchitectural millwork / casework
Listed by Mill-Right among completed corporate-office projects; no date or value disclosed.
Bertossi Group restaurants (Halifax)
CompletedCustom hospitality millwork for 'all of Halifax's Bertossi Group Restaurants'
Wording is Mill-Right's own ('all of Halifax's Bertossi Group Restaurants'); ongoing relationship, treated as completed work.
// KEY PEOPLE
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Andrew Doucetpartner
Co-Owner (also Director of Operations at RCS Construction; President & Co-Founder of PMco Inc.)
profile ▸// NOTABLE
Incorporated in March 1999 in response to demand for quality retail fixtures and store casework.
SOURCE ▸Named one of the founding members of the re-established AWMAC (Architectural Woodwork Manufacturers Association of Canada) Atlantic chapter in 2002.
SOURCE ▸Affiliated with RCS Construction (Bedford, NS general contractor) within the Doucet group of companies; co-owner Andrew Doucet is also RCS's Director of Operations.
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