June 2021

As our loyal readers know, we enjoy sharing a Featured Project each month to highlight one of our customer’s stories and their project. We’re changing it up for this month to fill you in on some things we’ve been working on behind the scenes. The first change we’ll note, as it is pretty apparent, is our E-Newsletter is now in a new format within our brand new website! This new format is more user-friendly with no need to download a PDF, and it is responsive for all the mobile readers out there. After you’re done with the E-Newsletter, take a tour around the new site, we’d love to hear your feedback at marketing@dairylane.ca. Now let’s get to it!

If you haven’t been to our shop in the past year, the first thing you’ll notice as you pull into DLS is a new building with DLS logos across from the main office! This building is our new dedicated fabrication facility. For many years the former fab facility was a small area within our main L-shaped facility. Space was a challenge when it came to fabricating large items such as parlours and crowd gates. Mike and John van Logtenstein said,

“We invested in new equipment with more advanced technology that would allow us to produce more parts in-house. Ultimately our goal was to produce higher quality products for our customers at a competitive price.”

Some of the equipment that we invested in includes a robotic welder, laser cutter, a high accuracy 6 axis press brake and a CNC triple stack rotary draw bender. Numerous half-ton cranes are situated throughout the fabrication facility, and we have one large crane rated at 5 tons. Now our employees can move heavy or awkward shaped equipment with ease, and in a safe manner. 

Within the fabrication facility, we currently fabricate the following items on an ongoing basis: 

• Complete parlour systems (stainless steel cabinets, hot-dip galvanized parlour stalls and parlour frames)
• Hot-dip galvanized crowd gates
• Stainless steel sort gates
• DLS stainless steel tip troughs
• Numerous types of hot-dip galvanized DLS specialty gates for stabling
• Numerous smaller scale items such as grates, galvanized stands, various hardware and mounts, manure drop doors and much more!

In addition to this, to best suit the needs of our customers, we always seem to have an assortment of custom projects on the go too! 

With the expansion of the fabrication facility and the increase in our production levels, especially as it relates to the milking parlours, we decided to restructure and reorganize that division of the company to a new company, DLS Manufacturing Inc.

Another big piece of news for DLS took place earlier this year. We are excited to publicly announce that we entered into a distribution agreement with GEA to sell our parlour stalls exclusively through the GEA dealer network! As a long-time GEA dealer, we have always had a great working relationship with GEA, and we are looking forward to growing together in the parlour department. For our local customers, we maintain the direct sale of our parlour stalls within our primary milking territories. 

While all of these changes were occurring behind the scenes, we have also been busy working on our customer projects. We would like to express our appreciation to YOU, for putting your confidence in us and for allowing us to have the opportunity to play a part in improving cow comfort and providing excellent quality dairy products to today’s consumers.

If you would like to learn more about how DLS has evolved over previous years, we invite you to see our history milestones.