Dynamic Attractions
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| Industry | Manufacturing |
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| Founded | 1926 |
| Headquarters | Canada |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Products | Amusement rides, observatory telescopes |
| Parent | Empire Industries Ltd |
| Website | www |
Dynamic Structures is a Canadian company with a history of steel fabrication dating back to 1926. They create amusement rides, theme park rides, observatory telescopes and other complex steel structures.
Dynamic Structures' history dates back to 1926, when Vancouver Art Metal was founded. The firm was renamed Coast Steel Fabricators Limited in 1952. In 1976, the firm was purchased by AGRA Inc., before being renamed AGRA Coast Limited in 1994. AGRA Inc. and its subsidiaries were acquired by British firm AMEC in 2001, with the company changing its name to AMEC Dynamic Structures. In 2007, AMEC sold the company to Empire Industries, who operate it as Dynamic Structures. In 2011, Dynamic Structures' amusement ride manufacturing was spun off into a sister company named Dynamic Attractions.
Dynamic Structures has been involved in the design and construction of most of the world's largest observatories. These include:
Currently the company is busy with the design of what will be the largest telescope in the world, called the Thirty Meter Telescope
Other structures that Dynamic Structures have constructed include:
Dynamic Attractions was a sister company to Dynamic Structures that was created in 2011 to serve the primary function of soliciting sales for rides systems that would be manufactured by Dynamic Structures.
The firm entered the theme park ride system industry after one of the engineers on the Keck Observatory project asked the firm for assistance with steel fatigue on a roller coaster. Following the observatory project, this engineer secured a job at Walt Disney World in Florida.[12][13] Due to the success of the project, Dynamic Structures gained additional contracts with Walt Disney Imagineering to manufacture the ride systems for Soarin' Over California and Test Track.[13][14] This expanded the firm's presence in the theme park industry.[13]
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