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Page 8. Whltb Fr,. Pros, Woclnesday, March 8,1995 hwty bsns BrdyGoup laps mb massive market By John Diijay Kovin Brady had worked for 15 yeare with the Eame company. Eventually, ho branched out and formed bis own firm. Thon ho went back and bought bis old compan Ho is the owner of theBrady Group of Whitby, a re- manufacturer of high-tech equipmont including such items as fax machines, computers, U hotocopies and ""pewriters. btwat makes the Brady firm different is hie work with liquid cryetal display (LCD) terminale. LCD isformed by producing a vertical and a horizontal grid on two glass ecreens. Liquid crystal ie thon poured into the epce between the two panels te fi Ilit. When an' lectrical current reaches the crystal, it twistes ad refracte light from behind to form different images. This je how images are formed on computer ecreens. What Brady bas come up with je a method that repareLCD terminale for such mao computer manufacturers as Dell, Toshiba and Xerox. They are also working on'securing contracte with Compaq and Decreens bave as many as 1l te 16 difféent laminated layers. Brady Group takes apart the layers and repaire them, wbich je much cheaper to mnufalctiurers thano-cing a now -screon. Hoe aye an ostimated $70-million wiorth of ecreene are sont te landfill oach year. LCD ecreen probleme include burned-in linos, emeare bens, ercatches or low light love;1s. Thoir first shipment last year included 3,000 repaired ecreens 0f that number, only three failed. Working in partnereip with the National Research Council, Brady spont about $35,000 to develop a method of repairing ecreens. Hie company put up about 60 per cent of the cost. "LCD je the emorging dieplay technology," says. Brady, during a recent interview from bis plant located on Hopkins Street in Whitby. Somo television manu- facturera bave staked their future on developing higb- definition telovision screons, which je basically just an KEVIN BRADY of the Brady Group comgo nenits found in computers, -fax oversees an employee working on repairing Machines, photocoplers and other business a compute r LCD soreen. The Whitby firm machines. Poob akReoWIh rePe remanufacturers ail types of electronloPoob ar esr hlb rePo improvemont on eisting television technology. Brady says e3mart manufacturers euch as Sharp and Panasonic are using ýLCD tecbnology -- which produces technology that excoode HDTV," much improved rosolution, asks Brady. "Why would we stop sometimes as much as 30 per back?" cent botter. "Wo've already developed the Although ho keeps buey at bis office, -Brady is not one-sided. Ho je very active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1982, ho was called to ho a bishop for the Oshawa district. "I had 'to put my university on hold," ho says. At that time ho was taking night courses to upgrade bis knowledge in business management, economice and marketing. He estimates ho spent about 35 to 40 hours a week working as bishop. This was on ýtop of bis fuli-time work. Although it was taxing, Brady thinke it was very beneficial. I think it wag a tremendous benefit to my career," ho says. DUtgave me a lot of interpersonal s~lel." Brady travels ail over the world selling bis product. Recently, ho bas travelled to Kentucky, New York, Ireland and Germany.. Brady graduated in 1973 fromn Control Data Institute and started working as a technician with General Automation. Ho worked for 1 15 years with the company before branching out on hie own. In 1988 ho started the Brady Group and eventueily bought out the repair centre arm of hie old company. Brady bas boon inivolved in recycling automated parte since 1975 wben ho began studying the technology. "It's kind of gratifying to 500 today that- reçycling is the fasteet growing induetry in North America," ho Hesays that it's eetimated a bout $4 billion a year will ho spont on recycing matorials. This will translate into a savinge of about $8 billion per year. "One of our customers refers to it as assot recovery," ho says. DREEN to focus on committee set-ups The Durham Region Employment Equity Network (DREEN), a network for buman resource professionale and employment equity practitioners, will meet on March 14. DREEN will offer a workshop on 'Establishing Effective Employment Equity Committees.' Guest speaker will be Carol Sharpe, president of Ljohnes & Associates. She is a buman resource consultant, in business in Durbam Region for more tban sevon years. She bas been involved witb employment equity implement- ation since 1987,, bas experience in the public and private sectors, witb large and small employer., and in unionized and non-unionîzed workplaces. 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