Page 70 By Frank Giorno The Bucket Shop is T imminsbased company owned by the W oodward family that started as a local service company to the areas mining and construction industries and now is ex panding into major export markets What services does The Bucket Shop provide As Paul W oodward The Bucket Shop V icePresident puts it Our name says it all If you are in the business of moving muck excavation reclamation min ing trenching or any other earthmov ing enterprise the Bucket Shop would like to be your company of choice The Bucket Shop TBS is presently ofering 23X wear solutions for all mining bucket applications It is TBS mission to improve lifecycle and re duce operating costs by providing clients with new innovative options TBS s branded 5 Piece Lip system ac companied with their specialty alloy THE BUCKET SHOP laden heel castings will reduce down time improve lifecycle increase pro ductivity and they have the results to prove it Customers are starting to catch on to the why and value added life cycle management added W oodward They understand that every pound thrown away is a pound paid for and we sit down with a customer and show them why we recommend something they see a light bulb go on he said That produces results that our customers appreciate and it separates us from our competition The Bucket Shop is undertaking their fourth major expansion to meet the ev er increasing demand for their services the repair and service of excavators backhoes and other heavy equipment that uses buckets and scoops The company s success comes from a closeknit workforce that focuses on a client relationship based on mutual trust and respect W oodward further explained In April TVO s Steve Paikin and the entire production crew descended on the new facility where it broadcast a regional report on the economy of T im mins The brandnew facility show cased the buoyant T immins economy For The Bucket Shop building cus tomer relations based on trust created the success that led to the fourth major expansion for the TBS in 2017 Perseverance and commitment to qual ity is also opening doors to major ex port markets That is without question one of the most exciting things we have going right now said Paul W oodward V ice President of the Bucket Shop W e now have buckets in Africa Peru Mexico Y ukon Alaska and those are big things for us and we are doing that all out of T immins a northern success with global r each