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To avoid any risk of fire, landscape architect Alex Néron proposed to put slate pebbles under the balconies of his client's apartment building in Montreal, where cigarette butts accumulated. He also built a Zen garden at the front of the property.
PHOTO SUPPLIED BY ALEX NÉRON ARTISAN PAYSAGISTE
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Denis Bisson began his career in the field of floor coverings during his third year of high school. The future owner of L'Ardoisière was laying ceramics to put money aside in order to finance his administration studies ...
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In the "Innovation" column of RADIO-CANADA, Vincent Maisonneuve presents a stonemason who, by dint of innovation, has managed to transform his small artisan workshop into a fully automated eco-SME.
Vendredi, 20 février 2015, 18h.
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A mosaic of slate
This slate from Canada, a Quebec discovery at the Pavillon des nouveautés, is like a puzzle. Cut by a computer controlled water jet cutter, in the plant of L'Ardoisière, Prévost, it reproduces a pattern of 18 different tiles, and sells with spacers and a precise plan. It costs $ 16.95 per square foot for a Terra-Nova uncalibrated stone covering (about 3/8 inch thick), and $ 22.95 for another calibrated stone (exactly 5/8 inch). thickness). Canadian slate, very dense and non-porous, does not crumble over time, unlike Chinese slate.
By CAROLE THIBODEAU
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1. Visit the showroom.
2. Visit the factory: door on the right.
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Entrepreneur Denis Bisson has a message: The multicolour Nova Scotia slate he cuts and shapes at his modest plant near St. Jérôme has unique qualities that low-cost imports from China and Brazil can’t match...
Denis Bisson, owner of l’Ardoisière Inc., shows off a counter top that was just cut from raw slate at his company’s high-tech slate production centre in Prévost.
PHOTO : L'Ardoisière.
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We first set foot on the Canadian slate of the outside staircase and the steps. Then, the door opens on an extension of the same bluish material, with a large mosaic turtle in the center ...
PHOTO OLIVIER PONTBRIAND, LA PRESSE
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The large balcony and bar-pool area of Josée and François
Learn moreCanadian slate is quietly making its place in our homes and gardens, revived on the market by L'Ardoisière, a Prévost company whose mission is to draw many surprising forms. Slate producers are rare in Quebec, and L'Ardoisière is the only one to push its transformation as far ...
PHOTO: DAVID BOILY, La Presse
The artisan Jimmy Thibault-Corbeil disintegrates the slate manually.
Innovation is a must for small manufacturing companies that want to distinguish themselves by offering high value-added products. L'Ardoisière understands this and does not hesitate to invest heavily in R & D to exploit its very particular slate ...
Learn moreDenis Bisson is a businessman from Prévost, in the north of Montreal. As a mining entrepreneur, he operates a slate quarry in Nova Scotia. But it is in his Prévost factory where he transforms stone into garden slabs, steps, tiles for walls and floors, which are suitable for both indoors and outdoors. "All shavings are revitalized with polished slate pebbles that are used like vegetable mulch," he adds.
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Thanks to its high density, Canadian slate is far superior to that imported from China, India or Brazil. A young Quebec company from Prévost in the Laurentians, Ardoisière, specializes in the extraction and processing of this noble material. It even has its own extraction site in Nova Scotia ....
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