Les Équipements Lapierre have been in the maple syrup business since 1972 and the water treatment business since 1990. With a reputation as an inventor, innovator and visionary, Mr. Lapierre runs a business of more than 30 employees that hasn’t stopped expanding. Always pleasing the clientele, Les Équipements Lapierre inc. have adapted to modern technology and have even upgraded several times. Well known amongst the high technology industries, Les Équipements Lapierre dawn highly specialised tools and machinery. Fabrication is computer assisted. The sophisticated units of programming serve to conceive and produce standardised parts for fabrication of equipment. The industrial parts programmed are saved on computer which allows the perfect recreation of any parts without the slightest difference. This process allows the one site fabrication of more than 80% of the parts from raw materials.

Les Équipements Lapierre have at their disposition a sugarhouse of more than 125000 taps which serves as an excellent experimental research and development center. The sugarhouse is used in the final conception and testing process for new equipment. It is here that Les Équipements Lapierre tests their products to determine whether or not they are ready for the market place. These tests confirm the quality and the trustworthiness of the product whether it is for a small or large sugarhouse.

Over the years Les Équipements Lapierre have distinguished themselves. Amongst others at the “Salon de la P.M.E. Industrielle Mégantic Compton” Weedon 1988, as “Enterprise of the year” for “Technological innovation”. In 1989 at the Beauceronne enterprise Gala “Chamber of commerce of St-Georges”, Les Équipements Lapierre were classed as regional industrial enterprise finalist and in 1998 they were given “Honourable mention” for the Quebec municipal affairs minister prize for the “Potable water treatment plant using the nanofiltration process” project.