TCA recently had the privilege of celebrating two long-term employees’ retirements with a BBQ and Magic Show!
Thank you to both Carlos and Ken for your combined 39 years of dedication and service to Assembly and Machining!
We hope you both enjoy retired life as much as we enjoyed working with you!
Special thanks to Noah Nogueira for providing us some magical entertainment!
Employees and their family members were asked to break out their pumpkin carving kits and put their creative minds to work for our Pumpkin Carving Contest! We had 4 different age categories with a winner in each. Check out some of the tremendous work our participants did!
Representing TCA’s most cherished Events – BBQs and Donut Days
TCA employees LOVE a good BBQ! We were so happy to be able to bring these back for 2021, even if they looked a little different. Check out some pictures from our final Oktoberfest BBQ to wrap up the season.
We will patiently wait until May when BBQ season commences once again!
TCA hit the links for our annual golf tournament this September at Victoria Park Valley Golf Course. 5 Teams came out to compete in this friendly best ball tournament which finished with a delicious dinner and prizes for all participants.
It all starting from humble beginnings: a borrowed laptop, borrowed printer and modest line of credit. Two young men, only a few years out of school, dared quit their jobs to design and build TCA’s first machine. Money and time were lacking, but confidence, creativity, and tenacity were not! Now, 25 years later, confidence is based on experience. Creativity and tenacity continue with every employee and project. The result? We regularly ‘wow’ our customers with exceptional machines.
Today we celebrate the customers and employees who have given us 25 years.
Here’s to 25+ more!
To read more about the founding of TCA, check out our 20th anniversary blog blog.tcatech.com/2016/05/
Every employee at TCA takes pride in the work we do and the quality of equipment we made. While TCA’s employees are one big happy family, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some friendly competition.
Check out some pictures from this year’s go-kart race held at Hamilton Indoor Indy.
Check out our go-kart tournaments from previous years!
The planet has lost some 40 per cent of its arable land over the past few decades, and we’re rapidly depleting the rest. The farmers at We the Roots grow leafy greens for chefs like O&B’s Anthony Walsh in a hydroponic, automated vertical farm just off the DVP, using less space to cultivate more food year round. They’re boosted by some out-of-this-world technology from the University of Guelph, where researchers are developing plants that can thrive in hostile environments like Mars. The trick is tailored LED light combinations: scientists can tweak the lights’ colour and intensity to alter the nutrients, growth and even flavour profile of arugula, chicory and kale.
Source: Toronto Life, Photo by Derek Shapton
Since we opened our doors in 1996, TCA’s been committed to championing young talent and training the next generation of automation experts. With a critical shortage of skilled labour across the manufacturing industry, we believe educating our youths to the possibility of this career path is vital to sustain our local thriving automation industry.
Every year across Canada, students in Grade 9 are urged to spend the day in the workplace of a parent, relative, friend, or volunteer host. Through exposure to the workplace, student’s are prompted to focus on early career planning and given insights to make informed decisions about their future goals.
TCA’s safety culture means that our student’s were required to undergo Health & Safety coaching about safety in the workplace, and given instruction on how to safety interact with large and sophisticated automation equipment.
We had a great day with our group of kids, and left them with some knowledge of how Canada’s manufacturing industry works, along with a souvenir for their hard work on the job.
Those close to TCA team members or their families are very familiar with the food obsession fondly cultivated throughout the company. This may be the only company in existence where new employee’s are required to read the Donut Handbook before reading the Employee Handbook. Each year a calendar of events is created by the TCA Social Committee. This is when the planning for team events is done, and employee’s can vote on the employee-engagement events that are planned.
Beginning in May, the last Thursday of every month is BBQ day. Lovingly cooked by team members, a full spread BBQ is prepared for lunch every month until the end of September. We say a final farewell to BBQ season mid-October during the annual Oktoberfest BBQ and patiently wait for the next BBQ season to begin.
Each season the team looks for new ways to make BBQ days special. This years improvement? Games!
Kudos to the Social Committee for giving a fun and healthy break for the team working so hard designing and building exceptional equipment.
Our steadfast and diligent administrator is finally off the clock. This month we are saying good-bye to an instrumental member of TCA’s staff; someone who played a crucial roll in our company’s history. Wendy started with TCA almost 16 years ago. When she joined us, we were experiencing rapid corporate growth – and all of the growing pains that come with it. Many of our internal processes weren’t designed for scale and she happily jumped into the chaos. Wendy helped develop and streamline our internal structure with a laser focus on our customers’ needs.
Though Wendy’s work over the past 16 years has been exemplary, her strength of character remains her legacy. One of TCA’s most talked about corporate value is integrity. Our President Dave Nelson, refers to integrity as making the right decision, even when it is hard to make. Wendy’s character is integrity personified. She could always be counted on to do the right thing, regardless of the extra work, complication, or friction it may cause. With an attention to detail that is almost super human, Wendy easily navigated and organized complicated corporate contracts, maintaining customer records and ensuring a level of accuracy that could always be counted on. While her work skills are undisputed, Wendy was also a genuine, kind, and trustworthy friend to many. She was momma-bear to our sales team, working diligently to simply make their lives easier.
When such a tenured and respected member of the team retires, it is always bittersweet. Everyone here will greatly miss her, but she leaves a legacy behind she can be proud of.
Enjoy your travel and your gardens Wendy-loo!