We were a company that started off manufacturing steel wire products, things like display stands and newspaper racks, and way back when, we made sock dryers—if you're old enough to remember what a sock dryer is. We grew into steel fabrication. We were doing work for many agricultural companies. If you look at my written brief, I mention that we were doing work for Nortel, and we were a preferred supplier for Nortel. As a small company, that is amazing. We did work for John Deere, Motor Coach, New Flyer, etc.
We don't know what BDC lost. We haven't yet seen the determination. Even the way that they handled the dissolution of the business was—it's not too strong to say—reprehensible. They didn't manage it well at all. For a paint line that would have been worth $350,000, they got salvage value of $7,500. I'm serious. It was $7,500, because they allowed somebody to just strip out whatever parts they could get, and they did that on the last day.
Can the company come back? No, not in the same way that it was. I'm not sure that we want it to, necessarily, but to lose a 70-year-old family-owned business is just a shame, because if you look at the statistics, there are so few of them around and this is another one that now has become a statistic.