// COMPANY DOSSIER
SOPREMA Canada Inc.
Manufactures waterproofing membranes, thermal and acoustic insulation, vegetated (green) roof systems, and air/vapour barrier products for the roofing and building-envelope sectors. Operates a North American R&D centre and a network of manufacturing plants and technical-sales offices across Canada.
📍 Drummondville, Quebec, CanadaEst. 1908✓ 86% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM SOPREMA Canada Inc.
“certainly in the in the halifax market specifically we've got exponential growth in development”
“it's a lot of things to balance you always have to be aware that as a manufacturer”
“realistically in the maritimes we get what eight to twelve good construction weeks a year”
“this matterport camera and what it does it takes a 3d render of your building”
“i did one in halifax the building it's now called the crane building where the crane fell”
“there's conflict on site whenever you're an installer and someone's coming by checking your work”
“we're in a cold climate here so we typically would have a vapor barrier then some insulation”
// LESSONS FROM SOPREMA Canada Inc.
Justify premium materials by quantifying the labor they eliminate, not just the product cost — if you can show the expensive membrane saves two layers of install, contractors will buy in.
Do a thermal (IR) scan before speccing any roof replacement — pinpointing wet sections lets you recap only the damaged 10-20% and save the building owner substantial cost and material.
In a supply-constrained market, check manufacturer lead times and contractor availability before writing the spec — then design around what's actually obtainable.
Labor shortage is a product-design signal: Soprema created laminated Smart Board panels specifically because fewer skilled hands meant quality-control problems on-site.
Vertical integration of essential components gives a manufacturer supply-chain control that competitors lack — acquiring upstream suppliers is a deliberate strategy, not just M&A.
A building sciences firm going 'on site before specking it out' — doing core tests, thermal scans, and leak investigations first — earns the trust of building owners who don't know where to start.
// ON THE RECORD WITH
IRC Building Sciences Group, A Rimkus Company
Works with
Collaborated on recap projects including one in Newfoundland; share preferred-contractor lists; joint market approach during 2021 supply crunch
Flynn Group of Companies
Supplies
Soprema supplies roofing materials to major building-envelope contractors including Flynn in Atlantic Canada
generic roofing membrane manufacturers
Competes with
Charles notes unnamed competitors stopped taking orders during 2021 supply crunch; Soprema still managing expectations and supplying
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Acquisition of ModulR TS (prelaminated roof insulation plant)
CompletedAcquirer; integrated ModulR TS as a SOPREMA company
Announced December 4, 2017. ModulR TS specialized in factory-prelaminated roof insulation; SOPREMA had been its customer since 2002 (15+ year relationship). The New Brunswick prelaminated-roofing-panels plant is still listed among SOPREMA's current Canadian manufacturing plants (first_party, products-made-by-canadians page), so the facility is treated as ongoing.
SOPREMA waterproofing-membrane production plant
CompletedOwner / client (Pomerleau was general contractor)
Completed May 2020; ~7,432 m2; LEED v4 certified. Ontario, not Atlantic Canada — included as a verified named project but lower Atlantic relevance.
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
Parent company SOPREMA was founded in 1908 in Strasbourg, France; SOPREMA began operations in Canada in 1978.
SOURCE ▸SOPREMA Canada employs more than 1,000 people (the company cites over 1,070) across 16 manufacturing plants and 11 sales offices, plus its North American R&D Centre in Drummondville, Quebec.
SOURCE ▸SOPREMA operates Atlantic Canada technical-sales offices in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (305 Cutler Avenue) and Dieppe, New Brunswick (1000 avenue Aviation).
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