Recycling News – CRM 19#6
RECHARGED RECYCLING “Li-Cycle has announced it has closed a Series C equity funding round with intentions to use the funds for developing its Rochester, New York, commercial hub, along with an international market expansion. New York-based firm, Moore Strategic Ventures LLC, led the financing round. Founded in 2016, Li-Cycle says it has“reinvented the recycling process,” […]
NAVIGATING THE NEW YEAR – Santa knows who’s skipping the sanitizer
BY STEVE KNOX WHEN HE CAME DOWN THE CHIMNEY, WAS SANTA WEARING A MASK? Oh, what a different world we’ve found ourselves in. Looking back to 12 months ago, Canada now seems like it was an untamed wild west. In the not-so-far-off olden days, we would sit closely and talk to customers visiting our businesses. […]
BREAKING THE GROUND – The struggles and successes of starting out
BY TOM BISSONNETTE I fell into the auto body trade almost by accident. My car had been in an accident and I took it to a local shop where I got to know the owner and manager and we became friends. My original vocation was a mechanic at a local farm machinery dealership. My father […]
WHEN IT COMES TO TRAINING, THE TIME IS NOW – ‘Later’ is a Synonym for ‘Never’
BY STEFANO LIESSI Does anyone remember the year 2000, and all the speculative horrors associated with the roll over from 1999? All the computers were predicted to crash, stock markets would shut down, electrical grids would perish, and we would be left in the dark ages. When New Years Day arrived, nothing happened. The odd […]
FIND YOUR MISSING PIECE – How do you hire the perfect fit?
BY CHELSEA STEBNER RIGHT PEOPLE. RIGHT BUS. RIGHT SEAT? We hear so much about making sure we’re all hiring the right people to join our teams. When it comes right down to it, how do we really know? I bet that none of us are HR experts or have specialized training in that area and […]
THE NUMBERS GAME – Pay attention to what KPIs are telling you
BY JAY PERRY There is a great deal of emphasis on key performance indicators (KPIs) these days, and with good reason. These numbers tell a story—but that’s where they can become very confusing and start us down a road that can take us away from our goals. Before we get any farther into this conversation, […]
ROMANS REPORT – Canada’s top 10 collision networks make up 76.1 percent of industry revenue
BY ALLISON ROGERS The Romans Group has released its annual whitepaper, A 2019 Profile of the Evolving U.S and Canada Collision Repair Marketplace, which looks at current, historical and future trends for both the U.S. and Canadian collision repair industries. “For the U.S. and Canada, the North American auto physical damage ecosystem and the entire […]
Cyberhackers on the loose – Top ways to keep your business safe from cyberhacks
BY JULIA LLOYD WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CYBER ATTACKS? MALWARE A general term for any software with intent to damage a computer and/or computer system. This can include, viruses, spyware, trojan horses and other malicious forms of cyber attacks. This is commonly contracted through email links from unknown sources—sometimes even pop-up ads have […]
Perceive and achieve – Solve your capacity-planning conundrum with ProgiPlanning
BY JULIA LLOYD AND ALLISON ROGERS Running a well-oiled collision centre can be challenging—but Progi has a solution. Last week, Charles Aubry, account manager at Progi took the CCIF virtual stage to discuss how the ProgiPlanning software, combined with a capacity planning mindset, can help collision repair facilities establish a capacity-planning ecosystem. ProgiPlanning is more […]
Shifting Gears – NAIT navigates hands-on learning in unprecedented times
BY JULIA LLOYD Amid the pandemic, many students have been forced to take education into their own hands, pursuing courses from home via the internet—but students of skilled trades don’t have the luxury of remote learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive shift in the realms of education as university and college students across […]
