Effigis Geo-Solutions Inc. and Provincial Pole Specialists, Inc. Are Rebranded to Osmose Utilities Services Canada, Inc.

Osmose is positioned now as Canada’s leading provider of essential asset inspection and maintenance services for utility and telecom-owned infrastructure.

Osmose Utilities Services, Inc. (“Osmose”), the leading provider of critical evaluation, maintenance, restoration, and engineering-related services for electric utility and telecommunications infrastructure in the U.S., announced today that it is rebranding and fully integrating its two Canadian service companies, Effigis Geo-Solutions Inc. (“Effigis”) and Provincial Pole Specialist, Inc (“PPSI”). The combined companies are now Osmose Utilities Services Canada, Inc., led by former Senior Vice President, Operations for Effigis, Claude Levasseur.

Founded in 1991 and purchased by Osmose in 2023, Effigis is a leader in geospatial information, pole evaluation, and design services, serving major Canadian electric utility and telecom providers in Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta. Effigis draws from a vast selection of geospatial data collection tools, providing a range of services from land information collection to the development of custom solutions that address land mapping, field operations tracking, asset management, and cable network monitoring needs.

Operating for over 30 years and acquired by Osmose in 2020, PPSI is one of the largest utility pole maintenance providers in Canada, serving Canadian electric utility and telecom providers in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. PPSI evaluates and treats more than 250,000 utility poles each year and provides pole reinforcement and a variety of other distribution line maintenance services throughout the country.

Coupling Osmose’s data-driven utility asset inspection, restoration capabilities, and structural analysis with the services of Effigis and PPSI, offers Canadian electric utility and telecom providers a new level of support for enhancing infrastructure strength and safety. “In the past several years, Osmose has extended our data-driven asset management offerings for Canadian electric utility and telecom providers through our acquisition and integration of these companies,” said John Rigney, Osmose’s Chief Administrative and Legal Officer. “From pole evaluation, treatment and restoration to geospatial information, storm response, grounding, underground system evaluation, engineering, and padmount transformer evaluation, we have helped to bolster the structural resiliency and performance of Canada’s electric utility and telecom infrastructure.”

“We are very proud to now be able to offer a wide range of services from coast to coast as Osmose Utilities Services Canada,” said Levasseur. “Our combined services, along with Osmose’s 90 years of experience, are invaluable to Canadian infrastructure owners.”

Osmose Utilities Services Canada is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, with regional offices in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.​

About Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.

Founded in 1934, Osmose is the market-leading provider of critical inspection, mobile contact voltage testing, maintenance and restoration services for electric transmission, distribution and telecommunications utilities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company employs more than 4,500 people. Osmose’s field technicians, professional engineers, wood scientists and corrosion experts utilize their expertise to identify and solve issues to make utility infrastructure safer, longer lasting and more resilient while lowering the total cost of ownership. Osmose is a portfolio company of EQT Infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.osmose.com/.

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