History

Founded in Montreal in 1988 as a small entrepreneurial company, Monmet has grown into a global player in specialized engineering and consulting for heavy industry with an international reach, thanks to strong people skills, uncompromising quality standards and a passion for improvisational problem-solving. 

Monmet works in close cooperation with a worldwide group of partners, manufacturing an extensive range of components for the Mining, Cement, Pulp & Paper, Wood Processing and Power Generation industries.

President and founder Mark Cahill has a family history in the metals business stretching back over 100 years. His great-great-grandfather was a foundryman and molder. In 1919, his grandfather and his great-great uncle were specifically recruited from Massachusetts to build and operate the new foundry of the Dominion Engineering Works in Lachine, Quebec. And his father, Maurice Cahill, worked for Allis Chalmers in Lachine throughout its many incarnations. Upon his retirement after forty years of service, the company had become part of the Metso group, now one of the world’s largest manufacturers in mining, cement and pulp & paper.

Mark Cahill brings an old-school self-made approach to forging business relationships, with the accent on the second part of that term: relationship. Monmet was built from the ground up with a founding principle: a comprehensive devotion to customer support. The Monmet team was groomed with that philosophy: that a reputation is created one handshake at a time, that people are the foundation of every contract. In a corporate world overflowing with clichés, Monmet is that rarest of organizations: a family.

Monmet’s custom-designed office loft is an expression of that thinking: inspired by Cahill’s original design, it is expansive yet human-scaled, with creativity and functionality in perfect harmony. The elegance of the space empowers our team to think innovatively, embracing new ideas and new technologies, while remaining faithful to the fundamentals. Our quality and performance meet or surpass industry standards, with physical quality and dimensional integrity meticulously checked against specifications and technical drawings.

And the Monmet space is more than an office: with a passion for military history, Cahill has collected an impressive, museum-quality array of memorabilia and artifacts from World Wars I and II, which are on permanent display in Monmet headquarters. At Monmet, passion, pursuit of excellence and attention to detail aren’t just the company guidelines. They’re words to live by.