Another project which provided Steel Improvement with further expertise in the
aircraft industry and experience in the international arena involved Canada. In
the late 1940s, the Canadian government decided to develop an aircraft industry
tailored to the unique conditions confronting that nation. When the Korean War
broke out in 1950, the Defense Production Ministry took bids to establish a turbine
and compressor blade production forge plant. Steel Improvement was the successful
bidder and in early 1951 broke ground for Canadian Steel Improvement, Ltd., in
Etobicoke, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Steel Improvement invested the necessary
technical and management expertise to operate the company. The facility, designed
by Steel Improvement, was built at the expense of the Canadian government and
then leased to Steel Improvement. In its first year, the plant produced more than
a million precision forged turbine and compressor blades for A. V. Roe's Orenda
engine. The Avro Canada CF100 was powered by an Orenda engine.
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