State trade fact sheets - Oklahoma

ProPipe Groundbreaking at Iron Horse

Under the direction of Citizen Potawatomi Tribal Chairman John A. “Rocky” Barrett, an historic international indigenous-owned partnership was launched in 2019 between CPN Iron Horse Industrial Park and Pro Pipe USA LLC, a Canadian Cree-owned pipeline manufacturing firm, that will operate a 50,000 square foot production facility located on 25 acres of land at Iron Horse Industrial Park. At peak production, Pro-Pipe USA LLC’s Iron Horse Industrial Park facility will employ 30 to 40 workers manufacturing high-density polyethylene pipe (HDPE) for the oil and gas, mining, irrigation, sewer, telecommunications, geothermal and municipal water markets.

Working Together at Tinker Air Force Base

Since 1979, Canadian Armed Forces personnel have been stationed at Tinker Air Force Base (AFB) in Oklahoma City in support of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). As partners in NORAD, the only bi-national command of its kind in the world, the U.S. and Canada work side-by-side to carry out aerospace warning and control, as well as maritime warning, in the defense of North America.

The Canadian Detachment at Tinker includes more than 40 members who work as part of the U.S. Air Force 552^nd Air Control Wing (ACW) to operate a fleet of E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. These aircraft deploy as “eyes in the sky” in missions around the world. The Canadian Detachment has participated in every major deployment of the 552^nd ACW. They even added Canadian flavor to their own nickname: “Eh-WACS.”

Coreslab Lays Strong Foundations in Oklahoma

Headquartered in Hamilton, Ontario, Coreslab Structures Inc. makes both structural and architectural precast concrete products in plants located throughout the southern U.S. The company operates a PCI Certified Plant in Tulsa that produces high quality bridge members and structural commercial products. The company has also invested in developing its Oklahoma City location into a state-of-the-art batch plant that allows Coreslab to batch more cubic yards of concrete per minute than any other facility in Oklahoma. Coreslab has built dozens of structures that are compliant with the criteria of FEMA and ICC500 — the standards that govern storm shelters, including two shelters built at a high school in Moore, Oklahoma, which was hit in 2013 with an EF5 tornado.