In just more than a year, Richelieu Hardware combined multiple Western Canada facilities into one much-larger, much more efficient structure in Calgary, Alberta, in the process speeding up customer order fulfillment through automated technology and sophisticated software, and adding a major product line to its already burgeoning product portfolio. And, it is not done yet. The Canadian hardware company’s numbers are big, no matter how you look at it. Sales are $1.8 billion (CAD) in 2024. It serves more than 130,000 customers from 116 facilities throughout North America, and product SKUs top 145,000 items; throwing in special orders, that number can easily triple. And those numbers are constantly changing. …One of the facility’s newest additions is a 104-foot-long Evans Midwest brand laminating line from Choice Machinery Group. The company makes the laminated boards from substrates in its inventory, and laminates from most of the major laminate suppliers that it distributes.