About Thiessen Team

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Thiessen Team provides shotcrete and grout products and a wide variety of mining equipment and supplies to the resource industry. We proudly supply and service a wide range of customers in both Canada and the USA.

Thiessen Team is a solution driven manufacturer and supplier, dedicated to providing cost-effective products and services to the mining community and related industries.

Thiessen Team is proud to have provided over 65 years of superior service to the resource industries. Since our inception in 1954 as Thiessen Equipment Ltd., we have proudly served our customers with innovative solutions and products in their quest for, and extraction of, base metals and minerals from nature's storehouse. Along this path we have competed, fought, struggled and survived the tides of growth and decline in the resource sectors.

The success that Thiessen Team enjoys is entirely due to the enthusiasm and dedication displayed by its knowledgeable and experienced staff.

Every success has hinged largely on these sound principles: quality comes first, customers are the focus of everything we do, team member involvement is a way of life, suppliers are our partners and integrity is never compromised.

Our commitment to our customers is that we will continue to use our experience, financial, and technological strengths to continue what must be done...when and where we have to do it. Surviving and thriving with our customers and partners in North America and abroad we will continue to move forward.

 

2019 marked the 65th anniversary of Thiessen Team & we are proud of our history.

Thiessen Equipment Ltd. was founded in 1954 by Abe J. Thiessen in B.C. Canada.

Like all new businesses the first years were difficult. The product range was small, consisting of grinding wheels and wire rope for the underground mines. Abe slept in his car when traveling and I recall he spoke with fondness towards a mining industry that even offered to pay in advance for products so he could have the cash to buy & supply them.

Abe developed and successfully patented the 'T-Dome' rock bolt that became the preferred roof support bolt for many years.

In the mid sixty's the company moved out of the family home into its Glen Drive location and hired its first employee.

For over sixty years the company grew. Customer service has and remains a keystone to its success.

The company had many milestones over the past sixty years as it followed its customers to many global locations.

What began as a small business in its founder's home grew to eight locations around the world employing 350 team members worldwide.

Looking ahead, we continue to listen to the needs of our customers through our talented and dedicated Team members, and ready to be of service to the mining industry from Langley, Elko and Big Timber for many years to come.

- Lawrence & Sandi Thiessen