Vaughan, ON – January 30, 2024 – BFC Technologies Inc. (BFC) is celebrating 20 years in business as a preferred supplier of integrated process solutions in North America. 

When Dave Eccleston and Ron Lalonde co-founded BFC in 2003, their goal was to build a boutique company offering customized design-build process solutions to a select group of clients. Over the following two decades, BFC has built multidisciplinary teams that deliver end-to-end personalized integrated process solutions for multinational manufacturers in the biotech, pharmaceutical, dairy, food, beverage, consumer product, nuclear and animal health industries.

“I am thrilled by the capabilities of BFC after 20 years in business,” said Lalonde. “Our engineering and technical capabilities are world-leading. There are a handful of companies around the world that can do fundamental detail, design, build, test, execute — but not many companies can do it over the variety of industries BFC can. Our success is all down to our people, many of whom have dedicated significant parts of their careers to the company.”

Eccleston added: “It is a great achievement. As a company owned and run by engineers, we are always looking to expand our knowledge and our capabilities. We stay on top of new processes and actively seek out new and unique challenges because that enables us to maintain and expand our broad scope of business.”

BFC now has 70 full-time employees — a mix of engineers and tradespeople — located in three offices: Vaughan, ON, Vancouver, BC and Buffalo, NY. The company headquarters in Vaughan features a 55,000 sq ft facility with 32 ft ceilings, offering super skid and complex module fabrication abilities.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary, BFC held a special celebration in December 2023, featuring a three-course meal, live band and recognition of some of the company’s longest-standing employees.

“It was very fulfilling to look across the room and realize the talent we have at BFC. I had the feeling that we can build anything,” commented Lalonde. “As people stay with us and grow more experienced, the company’s capacity and capability continues to expand. We’ve now reached a point where, as a leader, my goal is to help steer BFC rather than drive it. Our talented engineers have their own ideas about what we should do with our capabilities, what projects and industries we want to look at and what problems we want to fix.” 

BFC engineers are eager to tackle unique challenges across a broad range of industries, according to Eccleston. He explained: “If a company has 11 completely different modules they want to build — and nobody has built anything like them elsewhere around the world — we want to have that conversation and deliver those modules. Our willingness to talk through our clients’ unique problems and provide bespoke solutions to those problems is one of our major strengths.”

Looking ahead to the next 20 years, both Lalonde and Eccleston see major opportunities for BFC in international expansion, as well as product innovation and tapping into new industries. 

“I would like to see BFC having an impact on the environment, whether that's through clean energy sources or helping clean up the environment,” said Lalonde. “I want BFC to be involved in making the world more habitable 100-years from now.”