# SOPREMA Canada

> SOPREMA Canada is the Drummondville-based Canadian arm of a family-controlled French building-materials group founded in 1908. It manufactures waterproofing membranes, insulation, air and vapour barriers, green-roof systems, soundproofing products and civil-engineering solutions, then wraps those materials in specification help, installer training, warranties, testing and project support. Its current bet is that local production and auditable performance - from wind resistance to product carbon - can make an old-line materials supplier more valuable to architects, contractors, owners and public-infrastructure teams.

- **Founded:** 1908
- **Headquarters:** Drummondville, Canada
- **Founders:** Charles Geisen (Founder of the SOPREMA group)
- **Team size:** More than 1,000 employees in Canada; the company reported over 1,070 in January 2025. LinkedIn lists a 1,001-5,000 employee company-size band.
- **Products:** SBS-modified bitumen roofing systems, SOPRANATURE, ALSAN, SOPRA-ISO and SOPRA-XPS, 2-1 SOPRASMART
- **Notable:** Established Canadian operations in 1978 and reports 16 manufacturing plants, 11 sales offices and a North American R&D centre in Drummondville., The Woodstock plant won the international Smart Building award at the Green Solutions Awards presented during COP30 in 2025., Two Canadian plants received Canadian Institute of Steel Construction excellence awards in 2019.

## Products & services

- **SBS-modified bitumen roofing systems** — Multi-ply, self-adhered, adhesive-bonded and heat-welded membranes for low-slope roofs and waterproofing assemblies.
- **SOPRANATURE** — Vegetated and hybrid/blue roof systems designed to add planting, water retention and roof-level amenity.
- **ALSAN** — Liquid-applied polyurethane and PMMA waterproofing systems for complex details, traffic areas and refurbishment.
- **SOPRA-ISO and SOPRA-XPS** — Polyisocyanurate and extruded-polystyrene insulation lines, including tapered and high-density roof-board formats.
- **2-1 SOPRASMART** — Factory-laminated roof panels combining a support or insulation board with a bitumen base-sheet membrane to reduce installation steps.
- **Building-envelope systems** — Air barriers, vapour barriers, wall membranes, drainage products and foundation waterproofing assemblies.
- **Civil-engineering waterproofing** — Systems for bridges, parking decks, tunnels, foundations and other concrete infrastructure.
- **Acoustic and cellulose insulation** — Soundproofing membranes and thermal-insulation products, including recycled-paper cellulose.
- **Professional services** — Specification assistance, tapered-design support, technical drawings, wind-uplift testing, training, warranties and job-site support.
- **Carbon calculator and invoice footprint data** — Tools that use third-party-validated environmental product declarations to estimate available product emissions and report them on invoices.

## Achievements

- Established Canadian operations in 1978 and reports 16 manufacturing plants, 11 sales offices and a North American R&D centre in Drummondville.
- The Woodstock plant won the international Smart Building award at the Green Solutions Awards presented during COP30 in 2025.
- Two Canadian plants received Canadian Institute of Steel Construction excellence awards in 2019.
- Released transparency declarations for 141 products in 2017 in response to programs such as LEED v4.
- Reported recycling more than 10,000 tonnes of polystyrene in 2023 for use in XPS insulation manufacturing.
- A Dartmouth office-and-warehouse retrofit case study reported a 64% reduction in carbon impact after efficiency and solar work.
- Its products have been specified on major Canadian projects including the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge, CHUM, Bank of Canada and Old Crow Health Centre.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Launched an online product carbon calculator and began adding available carbon-footprint information to invoices.
- **2025-11** — The Woodstock manufacturing plant received the international Smart Building award at the Green Solutions Awards during COP30.
- **2025-10** — Added an in-house wind-uplift testing table for roofing-system evaluation.
- **2025-06** — Marked 30 years of SOPRANATURE vegetated roof systems in Canada.
- **2025-04** — Joined the WELL MADE HERE program for Canadian-made building materials.
- **2025-02** — Published a case study on a Granby partnership that densifies polystyrene for recycling into XPS insulation.
- **2024-10** — Published results from its Dartmouth solar-roof and solar-wall retrofit, reporting a 64% reduction in carbon impact.
- **2024-08** — Presented SOPRALOOP, an initiative that recovers residual materials for conversion into insulation products.

## Links

- Website: https://www.soprema.ca/en/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/soprema-canada
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMXzwW1TuZD1SKcza1xerEA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sopremacanada/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sopremacanada/

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