About us / mission statement

CB Power and Industrial Equipment Sales is a manufacturer's representative corporation that has been sourcing and servicing new, replacement and spare parts of industrial equipment in Southwest Ontario for over 50 years. Our customers include electric utilities, cement plants, steel plants, mining and minerals, pulp and paper mills, and all general industrial plants.

NEIL FRASER, P.Eng.

Neil Fraser is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario who started his career as a metallurgical engineer for a gold smelting company. Realizing the real gold was his ability to solve challenging technical problems he specialized in project management and cost saving optimization projects for complex industrial processes.

Neil then moved onto a major fan company in Canada where his expertise was in applying custom heavy fans for large Coal Fired plants and mining and smelting operations. Although knowledgeable with the entire product line his unique abilities to balance maintainability, reliability, first time and life cycle costs on large rotating machinery such as multiple thousand BHP fans makes him a tremendous resource for industrial engineers working in the area of rotating industrial equipment such as industrial fans, blowers and pumps.

An avid canoeist and outdoorsman Neil looks at all applications with an eye to the environment and helps lead industry in how they might tread a lighter path as they produce goods that benefit our community.

JIM WYWROT, P.Eng.

Jim Wywrot is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario who started his career as a stack tester for an environmental control company. Testing stacks in below zero weather with windchills of -40C he came to the realization that he could probably work where there was heat. He went to Papermaking where Yankee Dryers run at 700 degrees F. In this industrial sector he was fortunate to work in all aspects of the business, from Maintenance Engineering to Capital Installations to Process Engineering and on to Operations.

He moved into the role of Manager of Environment and Energy for a major University where he identified cost saving measures and strategies for large campus power plants.

His strength lies with selecting and applying products related to power generation and environmental control strategies and equipment. His breadth of experience helps in his ability to look at problems from many sides and build into his selections, solutions that meet and address multiple needs.