Scroll through photos of the Grande Prairie, Alta., facility of the steel tank and oilfield equipment manufacturer run by a 26-year-old
Inside Western Manufacturing Ltd.'s facility in Grande Prairie, Alta. The company is a steel tank and oilfield equipment manufacturer. Here, a welder grinds a seam on an oil tank in preparation for welding it.Chris Beauchamp
Western Manufacturing has a 55,000-square-foot combined fabrication, sandblasting and painting facility. Here, a worker operates a "manlift" to access the top of an oil tank.Chris Beauchamp
The company was founded in 2008 and is growing tremendously, with revenue expected to break $60-million for 2012. Here, a Western Manufacturing employee operates a structural roller, which forms long pieces of metal tubing into rings.Chris Beauchamp
Inside Western Manufacturing's plant, a rough-terrain crane is pictured; it’s used for lifting and loading oil tanks.Chris Beauchamp
Three workers at Western Manufacturing's sandblasting bay, where external preparation of oil tanks prior to painting takes place.Chris Beauchamp
Western Manufacturing's painting and coating bay.Chris Beauchamp
A worker walks between two oil tanks in the company’s completions bay, where the tanks are finished.Chris Beauchamp
Western Manufacturing founder, president and CEO Lonny Thiessen in the plant's fabrication bay. Just 26, he is in search of advice on how to put together an advisory board.CHRIS BEAUCHAMP/The Globe and Mail