Fibreglass pool manufacturing company in Shuswap sees success

Business is booming for a institution that creates fibreglass pools successful nan Shuswap.

Otter Pools, a subsidiary of Performance Poly Tek, is based successful Malakwa, B.C. and creates ready-to-install fibreglass pools for clients crossed nan country.

“You commencement pinch a excavation mould and you spray it pinch a gel overgarment which is nan existent outer colour of your pool, then, successful down that, we will commencement bulking it up pinch different layers of fibreglass,” said nan proprietor of nan 2 businesses, Scott McCuaig.

“There’s different resins and materials we usage to bulk it up to springiness it spot and a spot of elasticity to grip immoderate activity successful nan ground.”

The business has been manufacturing nan fibreglass pools for 5 years now which has helped springiness nan organization of Malakwa an economical boost.

“Malakwa is simply a awesome community. We unrecorded successful Malakwa, and we conscionable recovered an opportunity to prime up this large shop correct wherever we live. There’s a awesome workforce present and it supplies immoderate labour to nan area.”

The business being successful municipality is simply a triumph not only for nan manufacturers and nan clients but besides for nan residents.

“Fibreglass is what they make astir boats retired of,” said Konnor McCuaig, a foreman astatine nan company.

“It’s wholly waterproof. It’s strong, durable, it doesn’t degrade. You don’t person to interest needfully astir cracks if it’s installed correctly. There’s a batch of benefits erstwhile it comes to fibreglass, particularly erstwhile it comes arsenic a pre-formed shape.”

Currently, nan institution has 14 employees. It takes betwixt 80 and 100 hours for a squad of up to 5 group to make 1 pool.

In 5 years, nan institution has expanded its fibreglass excavation manufacturing process. It presently has 3 different excavation moulds on pinch different accessories for illustration slides, tanning ledges and more, and nan squad is presently moving connected 2 much excavation creation moulds.