Company Profile

The McDowell group of companies is a privately held Canadian company founded by Bernard McDowell in 1968.  It's head office located in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. We specialize in Heavy Construction & Mining equipment, and offer brand new surface and underground equipment.

 

Our surface equipment department offers a variety of OEM's including Link-Belt Excavators "the inventor of hydraulic excavators" offering excavators from 15,000 pound to 180,000 pound.

 

Kawasaki wheel loaders "the longest on going articulated loader manufacturer in the world" offer loaders from ½ yd to 17 yard.

 

Bobcat offering skid steers, mini excavators, zoom boom forklifts, utility and personnel carriers.

 

McDowell equipment offers the largest rental fleet of compactors in the Ontario market with brand names like Bomag and Ammann.

 

Articulated dump trucks are a big part of McDowell's rental fleet adding approximately ten new units per year.

 

Our underground equipment department offers brand new equipment from Our Driftech company which manufacturers shotecrete machines, scissorlifts, anfo loaders, personnel carriers. We can also offer fully re-manufactured or reconditioned equipment at significant savings from new for our customers with fast delivery times.

 

Driftech rental fleet consists of underground loaders ½ yd to 10 yd, underground haul trucks from 7 ton to 40 ton, low profile Motor Graders, jumbo drills with one, two or three booms with various configurations.

 

Our service departments includes field service and in house service of  67500 sq ft of service bays with Engine rebuilding shop and engine dynomometer testing, Transmission rebuilding shop with transmission pressure check test bench, Fabrication shop consists of numerous welding machines with Bortech Welder® machines, align boring machines, portable align boring machines, plate cutting tables, lathe machines, milling tables and cylinder rebuilding bench.

 

Our service technicians consist of licensed mechanics, certified electricians, certified welders and most engineering is done in house with us also working very closely with numerous engineering firms depending on the scope of engineering.

 

In Our Electrical department, we design and manufacturer our own electrical schematics and sealed wiring harnesses with our dashes. When machines leave our work shops they are tested on site for a minimum of  6 hours with pressure checks and cycle times adjusted and recorded so when the equipment arrives onsite it is ready for work.

 

Our parts department can offer new parts, rebuilt engines, transmissions, and axles.We offer exchange service for hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic pumps and motors. We have also dismantled over 1000 machines for reconditioned and used parts.  If we don't have your parts in stock, we will get them for you.

 

Shipping, we have full export capabilities from containerizing equipment, trucking or air shipments; we can handle any delivery anywhere in the world in a timely and cost efficient manner.

 

Equipment Purchasing with our global network of clients, we provide an excellent consignment service. Let us browse through your surplus equipment yard and we will pay cash for your used equipment of any age and condition, or sell it for you.

 

Our professional staff has combined hundreds of years of experience in the heavy equipment business.  We can solve your equipment needs and problems with our experience. We strive to ensure success for our customers. We have welcomed customers to visit our facilities from around the world and we invite you, our customer to see for yourself. 

 

Please check our web site at www.bmcdowell.com to get an idea of just how our inventory can help you.

 

So whether you need to budget, buy, rent, or sell heavy equipment give McDowell a call at + 1 705-566-8190 or email at sales@bmcdowell.com for fast, courteous service.

 

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