SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (TSX: SNC) is a large Canadian engineering firm. It is one of the ten largest engineering firms in the world and is based in Montreal, Quebec. It formed in 1991 from the merger of SNC and Lavalin, another Quebec based engineering firm.
The company was established by Arthur Surveyer in 1911 in Montreal. Surveyer’s private practice at first specialized in hydraulics (rivers, hydropower projects and flood control), but soon br...
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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (TSX: SNC) is a large Canadian engineering firm. It is one of the ten largest engineering firms in the world and is based in Montreal, Quebec. It formed in 1991 from the merger of SNC and Lavalin, another Quebec based engineering firm.
The company was established by Arthur Surveyer in 1911 in Montreal. Surveyer’s private practice at first specialized in hydraulics (rivers, hydropower projects and flood control), but soon branched out into the industrial sector (particularly pulp and paper and mining and metallurgy).
Surveyer formed a first 10-year partnership with Emil Nenniger and Georges Chênevert in 1936. A second partnership agreement was signed in 1946, and the firm’s name was changed to Surveyer, Nenniger and Chênevert. The name would eventually be abbreviated to SNC.
Lavalin was formed in 1936 by engineers Jean-Paul Lalonde and Romeo Valois. Bernard Lamarre was named President and CEO in 1962, and led the company for the next 29 years. During that time...
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