"I
have the impression to give pleasure at each day, launch, so much I am at
ease in my workshop"
That was not easy to launch the company, but I had much assistance
of the CLD of my area. I was convinced of the need for caravans light and
built well for the Québécois market. However, to structure a company and
to make it progress required a technical support which I obtained from
them ". As Henry Ford who had built his first car in his garage, Martin
settles in spring 2000 in the residential garage and assembles of any part
his first Polaira. It occupies all space, so much so that he
must slip it outside before raising it to pose the wheels! It
becomes representing thereafter to find a first distributor.
He goes to A. S. Lévesque or he
makes a presentation with the personnel. André Lévesque will acknowledge to have been
very sceptic before seeing this first unit. However, with the first
glance, noting the quality of the product, he states with Mr James that it will
have to leave Polaira in the court, to be turned over some with his small
happiness and an order of several additional units. The first stake was
posed.
More roomy buildings
Of the family house, Martin
will move in a small workshop which will become too exiguous at the end of
one year, then in more roomy in the industrial park of Saint-Eustache. "We
will be able to produce approximately a hundred units per year in the
current room and I plan to double surface in 2005, if all is well".
Gradually, Prolite makes its niche. We can count on personnel of
experiment for which the quality of construction precedes ".
Made in Quebec
Martin
James reviews honour of saying that its products are to 90% Québécois.
"Our
suppliers are in Granby, Oka, Blainville. Steel, wood, the glass fibre and
the windows all are from here. Only the apparatuses such as the stove or
the refrigerators come from the United States. We know that these products
are of high quality since they are often conveyed in the south of the
border and return to us in top-of-the-range VR. All our units are
assembled with the hand, are approved SCA and are scrupulously checked
before the delivery. Except some pips of youth on the first units, we
never had the least failure ".
Major changes for 2007
A room of watch is opened at
the 1100, boul. industry with St-Jerome in order to present the models of caravans and the creation of a dealer at the same place for the customers
of the area of Montréal. This new site, of a surface four times more
important than the factory of St-Eustace, has modern equipment to be able
to manufacture more than 400 products per year. New services are also
offered for the hiring of travel trailers, a store of parts and obviously the
financing on the spot. A new model makes its entry in 2007, that is to say
the max 21, of a weight of 2750 pounds with two axles.
New models for 2006
The
eco 12, small caravan practises of 750 pounds. Removal on the Industrial
boulevard with St-Jerome.
New models for 2005
To adjust
itself at the requests of the customers concerning ultra light travel trailers,
the model Ultra 24 is replaced by a model very light and incomparable,
that is to say Mini 13 of a weight of 865 lbs. Some modifications with
the models Profile 14 and Polaira 17 will accompany this vision towards
increasingly light caravans in order to agree with the current practices
of life.