CONCORD, ONT. — French firm Saint-Gobain recently announced it has completed the acquisition of the Bailey Group of Companies, a Canadian manufacturer of metal building products.Bailey Hunt Limited is headquartered in Concord, Ont. and has 12 locations in Canada in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. With the deal, Saint-Gobain is in a position to add $500 million in revenues.
Saint-Gobain has previously invested $3 billion in the Canadian market over the past three years. Other deals have included the acquisition of Kaycan, a siding and exteriors provider, in 2022, and Building Products of Canada, a manufacturer of residential roofing shingles and wood fibre insulation panels, in 2023.
In February, Saint-Gobain completed the installation of a recovery system at its gypsum facility in Vancouver. In June 2022, Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed CanadaThe plant will also transition away from fossil fuels to renewable electricity from Hydro-Quebec, making it the first zero-carbon wallboard plant in North America for scopes one and two emissions. Work on that project is currently underway.Team effort landed $1.