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Major Wire Industries Ltd.

, also known as Major Wire, is a High Performance Screen Media manufacturing company. It was originally manufacturing screen mesh cloth for different purposes (security, industrial sieves, commercial sieves as well as other commercial applications). Currently, Major Wire mainly manufactures two types of screen media; traditional woven wire screen cloth and High Performance Flex-Mat 3 screen media. The corporate headquarters are located on the south shore of Montreal, in the city of Candiac, Québec, Canada. They are also manufacturing in the United States, at their facility located in the suburb of Seattle, in Fife, Washington and are known under the name of Major Wire Screen Media. The second facility is located in Salisbury, North Carolina and is known under the name of Major Wire Screening Inc. (formerly known as W.S. Tyler Screening Inc.). Since 2007, the company has been producing a portion of their OptimumWire® Woven Wire products in partnership with a sole provider in China.

History
The company has been promoting the year 1884, although the actual year was 1879 as their foundation date. Major & Gibb Company, created by E. J. Major and Patrick Thomas Gibb, was already manufacturing screen mesh for different purposes since then. In 1884, Major & Gibb Co. merged with R. Jellyman & Co. – a paper box manufacturer, to create The Major Manufacturing Company. 1972 - the company was bought by Richard Pinsonneault and the name was changed for Major Wire Industries. Its main product remained screen mesh. 1985 - the company was divided in two, leaving The Major Manufacturing Company for The Major Paper Box which stayed on the Montreal island while the Major Wire Industries moved to the south shore and concentrated its efforts to maintain the wire mesh production. In 1990, Jean Leblond, current owner and CEO of the company, bought Major Wire from M. Pinsonneault. The company’s mission was redefined and directed towards the aggregates, mining and quarrying markets. The company began to distribute a hybrid product from Europe across North America named ONDAP GOMME5. It was a self-cleaning screen cloth made of two different materials. In 1996, Major Wire began to manufacture in their Montreal facility (Candiac) its own hybrid self-cleaning screen cloth under the name of Flex-Mat. Unlike the European cloth that they used to sell, Flex-Mat was and still is manufactured with high abrasive polyurethane instead of rubber. They also do not use cross wires in the manufacturing process. The company says that this last particularity increases the vibration of the screen, resulting in higher throughput for the customer. 2000 was the year where the Montreal facility was certified ISO 9001 for the first time. 2005 - The 3rd generation of Flex-Mat 3 was officially launched at the ConExpo-Con/AGG 2005 show. 2007 - The company opened a manufacturing facility with a business partner in China. This alliance enabled the company to provide to his worldwide network of finishing facilities (operated by Authorized Major Wire dealers) with flat woven wire standard sheets. The quality of the steal available in China and the partnerships with local business partners helped Major Wire to increase significantly their woven wire sales.

On January 1st 2012, Haver & Boecker, a privately owned German company already in the mining and quarrying industry, has acquired 40% of the company’s shares and will get full ownership in 2016, at the end of a 4-year transition period.