The Puratone Corporation

Ab Freig is President and CEO of Puratone, a world-class, fully-integrated Canadian Agri-business. He believes that investing in good people is the key to sustaining a successful business. As a member of CME, Ab has been able to gain access to valuable Lean tools to help Puratone continuously improve, while providing employees with a disciplined approach to achieving greater efficiencies that will keep the company competitive in this challenging market environment.

Puratone was listed as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies in 2006. The company is diversified into hog, poultry, and feed production and related products and employs 366 people, most of them in Rural Manitoba.