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Layfield Group Ltd. is a manufacturing, distribution and installations company. The company is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. The CEO and president of the Layfield Group is Tom Rose. The company has 3 divisions – construction products, environmental containment and flexible packaging solutions. The company manufactures water containment systems, secondary containment systems, mechanically stabilized earth solutions, geosynthetics, storm water management solutions, and erosion and sediment control products. The company offers construction materials such as geotextiles and geogrids. The company also provides packaging products. Layfield has around 400 employees located in its various facilities and office locations viz. Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, San Diego, Seattle, Houston, North Dakota, West Virginia, Australia and Asia. In 2017, Layfield Group Ltd. received Canada's Best Managed Companies designation. The 2017 Best Managed program recognizes the best-in-class of Canadian-owned and managed companies with revenues over $15 million demonstrating strategy, capability, and commitment to achieve sustainable growth.

History
Layfield was originally established in the mid-1950s as a fabricated plastics business. The company was then called Layfield Plastics. It predominantly dealt with fabricated plastic, and for the next 20 years, they mostly created signage, name tags and acrylic displays.

In 1978, Eric Layfield retired and sold his company to the Rose family. Tom Rose, who continues to this day as the company's president and CEO, took over the reins of the firm and further diversified its line of production. Initially he started with a single operation in Edmonton, Alberta and from there they expanded over the course of time. He expanded the business of rigid plastics to include other markets like Environmental Containment, Industrial Fabrics and Blown Film production.

In 2010, Layfield announced the launch of Enviro Liner® 6000HD. It’s a geomembrane that offers uv resistance, tensile strength and flexibility through formulation of flexible polyolefin alloys and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE).

In 2012, Layfield Group announced its capital expansion plans for its Vancouver, B.C., and Edmonton, AB, operations.

In 2014, Presto GeoSystems recognized Layfield as its top North American distributor for the year 2013 and presented an award to the company. The award was presented at Presto’s National Annual Dealer conference held on 8 April 2014, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the same year, the group commissioned the world’s largest combined geotextile sewing and geomembrane welding production line, Geo Fab 5X. it is designed to sew high-strength geotextiles and thermally weld geomembranes. In 2014, Layfield Construction Products was also awarded the rights to distribute E’GRID® Biaxial Geogrids in the United States. The company already had rights to distribute E'GRID Biaxial Geogrids in Canada for more than five years.

Layfield Environmental Containment was awarded a contract fabricate and install a new Chlorosulfonated Polyethylene (CSPE) floating cover system for the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) Eagle Rock Reservoir. This project required installing 500,000 ft2 floating cover complete with a rainwater removal system and cover appurtenances.

Among the other projects, Layfield Environmental Systems was also awarded a contract to supply and install 105,000 m2 of Enviro Liner® 6040HD in a secondary containment application for Enbridge’s South Edmonton Terminal Expansion Project.

Growth Timeline
1950’s - Layfield started as Layfield Plastics 1978 - Tom Rose, CEO, acquired the company 1989 - Built Richmond plant 1992 - Expansion into the United States 1997 - Acquisition of Geogard linings 1997 - Expansion into Central and Eastern Canada 2004 - Opened Richmond extrusion plant 2005 - Acquisition of CW Neal floating cover technology 2005 - Purchased co-extrusion line 2008 - Acquisition of vision packaging 2008 - Acquisition of aqua dam 2013 - New line 9 wide-width extrusion line commissioned 2013 - New 115,000sq.ft fabrication plant 2015 - Robotic, high speed geosynthetic conversion line

Products and services
Environmental Containment Layfield Environmental Containment provides various environmental containment services. These include designing, manufacturing, installations and maintenance services for geomembranes, specialty geosynthetics and floating covers.

Construction Products Layfield Construction Products supplies several major kinds of geosynthetic, industrial fabrics and building products. This branch mostly deals with supply-only products for many industries across North America and other international locations. Layfield Construction Products is also one of the largest distributors of geotextiles, moving over 100 million square feet a year.

Flexible Packaging Layfield Flexible Packaging deals with high quality food, medical and industrial films. It uses low-impact manufacturing processes to create plastic products that preserve water and food items. These processes also aid in the effective utilisation of energy and enhance green initiatives.

Layfield Locations
Corporate office and manufacturing plant - Richmond, British Columbia

Fabrication Facilities
 * San Diego, California
 * Edmonton, Alberta
 * Toronto, Ontario

Other offices and warehouses
 * Calgary, Alberta
 * Kent, Washington
 * Wellsburg, West Virginia
 * Adelaide, Australia
 * Brisbane, Australia

Affiliations
Layfield Flexible Packaging
 * California Film Extruders and Converters Association (CFECA)
 * International Society of Explosive Engineers (ISEE)
 * Canadian Produce Marketing Association (CPMA)
 * BC Food Processors Association (BCFPA)
 * Flexographic Technical Association (FTA)
 * Alberta Food Processors Association (AFPA)
 * Plastic Processors Environmental Association of BC (PPEA-BC)
 * Layfield Construction Products
 * Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI), and the Geosynthetics Materials Association subgroup
 * Founding members of the Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (FGI)
 * Participates on the D35 committee of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Layfield Environmental Containment
 * Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA). Permit to practice #PO6886
 * International Association of Geosynthetics Installers (IAGI); Approved Installation Contractor
 * American Water and Wastewater Association (AWWA); Member of the committee for Floating Covers

Construction Materials(US) & Environmental Systems(US)
 * AGC - Associated General Contractors - Southwest Chapter
 * CMAA - Construction Managers Association of America - Northwest Chapter
 * AWWA - American Water Works Association

Awards and Accolades

 * Layfield Announced as Finalist For the 2017 BC Exports Award
 * Layfield Group Ltd. was honoured Canada’s Best Managed Companies designation in 2017
 * BC Export Awards finalist in the Manufactured Products category, 2016
 * Tom Rose, Layfield’s President & CEO awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association in recognition of his outstanding achievements and contributions

Research Papers

 * Protecting geomembranes from animal damage - By Andrew Mills and Timothy D. Stark