About Us

In addition to reviewing appropriate literature and test results, the ECG team
contacted several existing manufacturers of AAC, of Cellular Light Concrete (CLC) and
of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) in Europe, the USA, Mexico and Canada. 

We determined that the best system designers and manufacturers were in Europe and
contacted Xella, the largest European designer/ manufacturer in Germany. Xella
designs the systems that are then manufactured in over 40 countries by its subsidiaries

Hebel and Ytong or by licensed manufacturers. We negotiated with both firms in
Holland, Germany, the US and Mexico. Competitive quotes for several indigenous
homes in Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC suggested that freight costs from Europe and
the US East coast made the AAC product expensive and slow to arrive in Western
Canada. Therefore, the construction of a Western Canadian manufacturing facility
would be desirable as sales volumes of AAC homes warranted. In the meantime, AAC
components could be imported from Mexico via the US.

Decision: To import AAC Product from the Hebel Mexico plant; and
to sign a Joint Venture Agreement with AAC West, LLC, Cheyenne,Wy.
We determined that the Hebel AAC product from its Mexican plant in Monterey via AAC
West, LLC was the most cost effective method of bringing AAC blocks, panels etc. into
Western Canada.
Following negotiations with several contractors in the US, we entered into a Joint
Venture agreement with AAC WEST, LLC, of Cheyenne, WY, the largest distributor of
AAC components in the US (See Website), to assist in the training of Canadian
installers and in supporting the entry of AAC products into the Western Canadian
market including product certification in Canada and the eventual design/construction
of an AAC manufacturing plant. In 2022 we incorporated AAC Canada Inc.

Note: An AAC manufacturing plant to be built in Edmonton or in the interior of BC
would cost ca. US $ 40.0 million of which ca. US $ 18.0 million would be the cost of
equipment