Snow Melters in Sudbury, ON.
Sudbury's mining shifts run 24/7 — Highway 144 mine roads have plow priority over the downtown core during a major storm. Winters here are among the harshest in Canada — sub-zero temperatures hold for weeks and storm totals routinely top a metre over a season — and lots are large and drive-times between properties dominate routing. The local economy leans on Vale Sudbury, Glencore, Health Sciences North, and Laurentian University, which means our routes pre-treat Vale Sudbury's sites before residential bookings whenever a storm is forecast inside their shift change.
Cold-snap reality: operating in Sudbury
- Annual snowfall: 270 cm typical (heavy-belt band)
- De-icer cutoff: rock salt above −12 °C, calcium chloride below
- Response SLA: ≤ 4 hours from trigger
- Plowing trigger: 2 cm accumulation
- Winter temperature: -10 °C average (cold baseline)
- Inland factor: deep-cold reserve unit hot at the New Sudbury depot, winterised diesel blend below −20 °C
Why snow melters in Sudbury?
Snow Melters sold and serviced in Sudbury ships from the same depot that supplies our snow.ca crews — same equipment, same parts inventory, same operators who put 600+ hours on each unit per winter.
Where we cover in Sudbury
- Neighbourhoods: Downtown, New Sudbury, Garson, and Lively
- Postal coverage: every postal-code unit inside the city limits
- Outlying districts: same-day for accounts within 30 km of the Sudbury depot
How we route Sudbury
- Dispatch density: mid-tier metro coverage
- Priority routes: Glencore, Health Sciences North, Laurentian University on a separate route book — New Sudbury and Garson contracts never wait behind residential queues
- Unit replacement target: < 30 minutes during storm events (tier-B priority)
- Local depot crew: lives in Sudbury, knows the streets, named in your dispatch record — not a national call centre