Driven by people and passion, Mack Kirk Industries Limited has served the construction industry with quality and dedication since 1908. With a flurry of positive changes sweeping the company this year, the team has been hard at work ushering in a new era. A rebranding campaign saw the company go from Mack Kirk Roofing & Sheet Metal Limited to Mack Kirk Industries Limited. With its evolution from a roofing contractor into a multi-talented general contractor over the past decade or so, the name change is timely. Now representing its full portfolio of trades, with space to diversify even more, the company trades under its new banner with great pride.
This process of transformation has taken a tremendous commitment. Changing the company’s name meant rebranding 150 vehicles and clothing for around 200, a new website, digital stationery, and all the marketing such an undertaking entails. Now, Mack Kirk’s departments include parkade waterproofing replacement, new construction, fabrication, advanced coating solutions including polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) applications, sloped and flat roofing, and much more.
The company also opened its new headquarters earlier this year. As such, Mack Kirk Industries is equally proud of its new, two-and-a-half-acre footprint on 198 Street, Langley Township, British Columbia. The new building allows the team to showcase its diverse offerings in novel and exciting ways. “We offer a wide spectrum of services under one umbrella,” says Christina Laplante, Vice President. The new, larger building allows Mack Kirk to employ the professionals it needs to support its wide range of services.
Laplante is open about the sincere appreciation the company’s leadership has for its incredible team—the people who have made this natural progression from roofing to welding to concrete and beyond possible. “We keep hiring really great people. We’re very fortunate to have the team that we have and the employees that we have,” she says. Christina and her husband, company President Gino Laplante, have been working together for over two decades after buying the company in 2003, and looking back at how far they have brought the business makes overcoming the challenges against all the odds worth the effort.
The company’s development was an organic progression, one that evolved by providing customers with a level of quality and service they couldn’t find in the market. Traditionally serving clients as diverse as universities, parkade owners, multi-family complex developers, hospitals, and commercial and industrial developers, the Mack Kirk team has a vast depth of understanding and experience across many disciplines. “The moment you get into commercial and industrial roofing, it’s not just roofing anymore,” Christina says.
Gino concurs. “It becomes a general contractor role… Contractor management is where we’re going,” he points out, highlighting that the company has established a reputation as a general contractor capable of managing and completing building projects through their entire life cycle, with the added benefit to its customers of being an expert roofer specializing in flat and low slope roofing. Mack Kirk is also favored for its outstanding knowledge of specialized processes like asbestos removal, waterproofing installation, and seismic and safety codes. Moreover, the team is a trusted go-to for repairs to older buildings where weathered rebar can cause structural damage.
As the recipient of numerous industry awards across British Columbia, Mack Kirk has also specialized in certified green roofing and green wall consultation and installation since its early days, becoming increasingly sophisticated in these capabilities over the years. In fact, its new building will soon feature its very own partial green roof and vertical garden.
To best serve its roofing operations, Mack Kirk Industries runs an independent roofing maintenance and repair outfit, Mack Metals, complete with a high-tech sheet metal shop which is also open to the public. Besides this service, it also offers solar installations, electrical and mechanical services, and its well-known custom welding, carpentry, and fabrication.
“When you hire Mack Kirk, you hire a well-rounded general contractor. Mack Kirk is no longer a roofing company; we passed that years ago,” says Gino. Accredited by the Canadian Roofing Contractors Association (CRCA), the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and the Roofing Contractors Association of British Columbia (RCABC), the Mack Kirk team is accustomed to dealing with a large variety of jobs and challenges in the field. Its customers in British Columbia know they are hiring the best in the business, a team that is seasoned in delivering well-thought-out solutions.
In the process of building the company’s future, the Laplantes felt it was important to also honour the company’s heritage. One of their initiatives was to research the origins of its founder, Mack Kirk, who originally established the business in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. After reaching out to relatives, the team started piecing together the company’s timeline, a task that is as sentimental as it is crucial to preserving its origin story. “[Tracing company history] is something we’ve always wanted to do,” Christina says. “We were always very passionate about that,” and the team will be creating an exhibition wall to showcase this history.
Certainly, powerful growth has brought with it a number of impressive projects. One of Mack Kirk’s most historic moments presented itself not long ago when the team poured 30 truckloads of concrete in four hours. One of its largest current projects is on the Red Bull Ingredients Facility’s 7-acre building in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and recent months have also seen 20 school reroofing projects, shopping malls, and other projects executed by the team.
Gino is especially proud of Christina’s role as the only woman on the RCABC’s board of 13 members. “I’m very proud of that. It’s her third year now… It’s a good way of giving back to the roofing industry and to keep her finger on the pulse,” he says about the role, in which she has served as Director for two of those three years.
Christina speaks of the RCABC with high praise. “It’s been a very positive experience. The foundation of RCABC is very solid,” she says. “The respect for the brand and the direction that the association wants to take forward to maintain its integrity and efficiency and to be leaders in the roofing industry for all of Canada is incredible,” she adds, sharing how much she enjoys being a part of such a meaningful mission. With all her years of hands-on industry experience, Christina’s position and ability to contribute at such a high level while serving the sector comes as no surprise.
And, as if 2025 was not eventful enough, Christina took what she calls “another leap of faith” by enrolling in an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) graduate degree course, commencing this month. “I’m doing it because I’m passionate about learning,” she tells us. “I want to bring some knowledge and education back to the industry and our company on how we can do things better.”
As a firm believer in being only as good as its last job, this team makes continuous improvement a priority. Not only does the quality control afforded by self-performing most of its trades prove invaluable in the company’s growth; by bringing its characteristic sense of warmth and integrity to everything it does, the Mack Kirk team continues to lead with heart as well as skill.
When it comes to their plans and vision for the future, the company’s leadership remains as pragmatic yet positive as always. “We’ll continue to strive. We’ll continue keeping our families employed,” Christina Laplante says, highlighting that so far, 2025 has seen a record number of employees further their education courtesy of Mack Kirk Industries Limited. Excited about the future, she prefers allowing things to unfold as they always have. “I guess we’ll see. We’ll see where this journey keeps taking us.”
