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Software, Web & Automation for Drummondville Manufacturers

Global Maple System builds custom software, web platforms, and AI-driven automation for the manufacturers, processors, and logistics operators that make Drummondville one of Quebec's most industrially dense cities. When hiring isn't fast enough, we build the systems that let your current team do more.

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  • Acute, chronic labor shortage: about 2,000 jobs stood unfilled among roughly 650 manufacturing companies in the Drummond region, with close to 69% of vacancies in manufacturing
  • Businesses turning down contracts or idling equipment for lack of staff — e.g. metal-coating firm Sixpro declining major client contracts, and trucking company SGT Transport leaving around 50 trucks parked for lack of drivers
  • Heavy, costly reliance on manual international recruitment (temporary foreign workers, refugee hiring) including employer-funded housing and French-language training, instead of process automation
  • Existing industrial parks running near full capacity, pushing expanding manufacturers into newly created zones and forcing operational/relocation logistics

AI & Automation · Drummondville

With roughly 2,000 manufacturing-heavy jobs unfilled across the Drummond region and a dedicated centre (CNIMI) already pushing local SMEs toward Industry 4.0, the real opportunity in Drummondville is AI-assisted automation that absorbs repetitive floor, dispatch, and back-office work so existing teams can operate at the capacity currently locked behind those unfilled positions.

Doing business in Drummondville

Drummondville is an industrial city first. With a population of 79,825 at the 2021 Census, it carries one of the highest per-capita concentrations of manufacturing firms of any city in Quebec — a density visible across the Parc Industriel Régional de Drummondville, Parc Industriel Vitrine 55, and the Parc Municipal de Drummondville, alongside a commercial corridor built around Boulevard Saint-Joseph and the Centre Carnaval shopping centre. This isn't a city where software is an afterthought bolted onto an office; it sits next to production lines, processing plants, and loading docks.

That density comes with a well-documented strain. The Drummond region currently has roughly 2,000 jobs sitting unfilled across about 650 manufacturing companies, with close to 69% of those vacancies in manufacturing itself. The consequences aren't abstract — metal-coating firm Sixpro has turned down major client contracts, and trucking company SGT Transport has left around 50 trucks parked, both for lack of staff. Many local employers have responded by leaning harder on manual international recruitment — temporary foreign workers, refugee hiring, employer-funded housing, and French-language training — rather than on the process automation that could ease the same pressure from the inside.

The region already recognizes this. CNIMI, the Centre national intégré du manufacturier intelligent, is a $30-million project — $19 million from the Quebec government and $8.1 million from private donors led by Groupe Canimex and Entreprises Soucy — built specifically to diagnose local manufacturers' processes and map out digital transformation plans. Cégep de Drummondville, the UQTR campus in Drummondville, and the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Drummond (CCID) round out a local ecosystem already pointed toward Industry 4.0. What's often still missing is the studio that actually builds the software those plans call for.

That's where Global Maple System comes in. We're an AI-first software, web, and automation studio, and we build for the industries that make Drummondville run — smart manufacturing, agri-food processing, building materials and plastics, industrial equipment and power-transmission, and trucking and logistics along the Highway 20/55 corridor. If your business is feeling the same labor squeeze as your neighbours in the Drummond region, we build the systems that let the team you already have do more, instead of waiting on a hire that may not come.

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What Drummondville businesses tell us

  • ✕ Acute, chronic labor shortage: about 2,000 jobs stood unfilled among roughly 650 manufacturing companies in the Drummond region, with close to 69% of vacancies in manufacturing
  • ✕ Businesses turning down contracts or idling equipment for lack of staff — e.g. metal-coating firm Sixpro declining major client contracts, and trucking company SGT Transport leaving around 50 trucks parked for lack of drivers
  • ✕ Heavy, costly reliance on manual international recruitment (temporary foreign workers, refugee hiring) including employer-funded housing and French-language training, instead of process automation
  • ✕ Existing industrial parks running near full capacity, pushing expanding manufacturers into newly created zones and forcing operational/relocation logistics
  • ✕ Local manufacturing SMEs recognized as needing outside help to adopt Industry 4.0 digital tools and automation — significant enough that a dedicated $30M public-private centre (CNIMI) was built specifically to diagnose processes and build digital transformation plans for them
What we build

For Drummondville's key industries

Advanced/smart manufacturing

Drummondville has one of the highest per-capita concentrations of manufacturing firms of any city in Quebec, with operations clustered across the Parc Industriel Régional de Drummondville and Parc Industriel Vitrine 55. That density is also where the region's labor shortage bites hardest: manufacturing accounts for close to 69% of the roughly 2,000 jobs currently unfilled across about 650 manufacturing companies in the Drummond region. CNIMI's $30-million mandate is to help manufacturers plan a path to Industry 4.0 — we build the software, dashboards, and automated workflows that turn that plan into something running on the floor.

Agri-food processing

Agri-food processing runs deep in Drummondville, anchored by Olymel's pork processing plant on rue Rocheleau alongside the region's broader meat-products sector. Plants like these live and die on throughput, traceability, and compliance — work that becomes unmanageable on paper or spreadsheets once volume climbs and staffing stays tight. We build production tracking, inventory, and reporting software that keeps a processing operation moving without adding headcount for every new order spike, so the staff you do have can focus on the plant floor instead of paperwork.

Building materials and plastics manufacturing

SOPREMA runs its North American R&D centre for waterproofing and insulation right here in Drummondville, part of a broader building-materials and plastics cluster that also produces polyethylene products. R&D-driven manufacturing like this generates constant product, testing, and formulation data that's easy to lose track of in disconnected spreadsheets and shared drives. We build the internal software and web platforms that keep product data, quoting, and production records organized, so a new formulation or product line can move from lab to plant floor without the handoff getting lost.

Industrial equipment and power-transmission manufacturing

Groupe Canimex's gearmotors, Entreprises Soucy's rubber track systems, and Siemens Canada's electrical control panels — built at its roughly 400-person Drummondville plant after a $14-million modernization — put Drummondville on the map for power-transmission and industrial equipment manufacturing. Companies investing that kind of capital in modern equipment need software and ordering systems that match the pace: custom quoting tools, production scheduling, and configuration software in place of manual order processing. We build the systems that let a modern plant floor run on modern software.

Trucking, freight and logistics

Sitting on the Highway 20/55 corridor, Drummondville is a natural freight and logistics hub — but the same labor shortage squeezing manufacturers hits trucking just as hard. When a carrier like SGT Transport is forced to leave around 50 trucks parked for lack of drivers, the constraint usually isn't the fleet, it's everything around it: dispatching, route planning, and paperwork that eats into a driver's available hours. We build dispatch, scheduling, and back-office automation that gets more capacity out of the trucks and drivers you already have.

How we help

Built for Drummondville businesses

Process Automation for Tight Floors

With close to 2,000 jobs unfilled across roughly 650 manufacturing companies in the Drummond region — nearly 69% of them in manufacturing — hiring your way out isn't always an option. We automate the repetitive, manual steps on your floor or in your back office so the team you already have can cover more ground.

Capacity & Dispatch Software

When metal-coating firm Sixpro has had to turn down contracts and SGT Transport has left trucks parked for lack of drivers, the bottleneck usually isn't demand — it's coordination. We build scheduling, dispatch, and capacity-planning software so you can say yes to more of the work you're already capable of doing.

Industry 4.0 Build-Out

CNIMI was built with $30 million in public and private funding to diagnose manufacturing SMEs and map a digital transformation plan. We're the studio that builds what comes after the diagnosis — the connected systems, dashboards, and automated workflows that make an Industry 4.0 plan real on your floor.

Recruitment & Onboarding Workflow Software

Many Drummondville manufacturers currently lean on manual international recruitment — temporary foreign workers, refugee hiring, employer-funded housing, and French-language training — just to keep positions filled. We build the software that manages that pipeline end to end, so recruitment and onboarding coordination take less manual admin off your HR team's plate.

Systems for New & Expanding Facilities

With existing industrial parks running near full capacity, growing manufacturers are increasingly relocating or expanding into zones such as Parc Industriel Vitrine 55. We build the inventory, production, and business software a new or expanded facility needs from day one, so a move doesn't mean falling back on spreadsheets while your systems catch up.

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Industries we serve in Drummondville

Advanced/smart manufacturing (Drummondville has one of the highest per-capita concentrations of manufacturing firms of any Quebec city) Agri-food processing (pork processing and meat products) Building materials and plastics manufacturing (waterproofing, insulation, polyethylene products) Industrial equipment and power-transmission manufacturing (gearmotors, rubber track systems, electrical control panels) Trucking, freight and logistics (Highway 20/55 corridor) Retail and commercial/tertiary services (boulevard-based retail corridor)

Serving businesses across Parc Industriel Régional de Drummondville, Parc Municipal de Drummondville, Parc Industriel Vitrine 55, Boulevard Saint-Joseph (main retail/commercial artery), Centre Carnaval Drummondville (shopping centre).

Drummondville questions, answered

That's the industries we build for. Whether it's smart manufacturing, agri-food processing, building materials, industrial equipment, or freight and logistics, we start by understanding how your operation runs — scheduling, production, compliance, dispatch — before we write a line of code, so what we build fits how your floor works, not a generic template.

That's exactly the problem automation is meant to solve, not add to. We scope projects so your team's time investment is front-loaded and light, and the payoff is fewer manual tasks eating into the hours of the staff you already have — not a second job on top of the one they're already stretched thin doing.

CNIMI diagnoses manufacturing SMEs and builds a plan for digital transformation and Industry 4.0 adoption. We're a separate, independent software and automation studio — if you've already got a plan from CNIMI or elsewhere, we build the actual software and systems that plan calls for; if you don't, we can start from scratch with you.

Yes. Drummondville sits on the Highway 20/55 corridor at the centre of one of Quebec's densest manufacturing regions, and that's exactly the kind of business we build for — whether you're in the Parc Industriel Régional, Vitrine 55, or along Boulevard Saint-Joseph.

Automation won't replace the people you need, but it can reduce how many additional people a given task requires — which matters when the region has close to 2,000 manufacturing-heavy jobs sitting unfilled. It's a way to get more done with the team and the hires you already have, not a substitute for hiring altogether.

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