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Why Use Matting:

Matting is a portable platform used by various industries on projects to create temporary roads or pad sites, connecting hard-to-reach areas. These paths allow equipment and people to move around the job site safely, making time on-site more efficient by reducing weather-related project delays, shielding equipment from damage, and protecting the environment.

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Minimize environmental impact

Our durable matting surfaces shield sensitive ecosystems from the weight of heavy construction equipment, promoting faster natural regeneration and facilitating a more sustainable construction process. This helps you, and the planet.

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Enhanced Site Safety

Matting enables heavy equipment to distribute its weight, preventing potential unsafe operating conditions and wear and tear to the machines. Even weight distribution also helps avoid pressure points on the ground, protecting below ground utilities.

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Avoid Weather Delays, Extend the Working Season

Unpredictable weather and heavy rains can create unsafe, muddy conditions, leading to equipment delays or shutdowns. Our access mats provide stability, preventing equipment from getting stuck, ensuring safe movement, and extending the working season by holding frost in the ground during spring thaw.

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Optimize Efficiency and Stay on Budget

Ensure the success of your construction project by adhering to meticulously planned schedules. Our products significantly minimize project risks, preventing costly delays, reworks, and overruns. Access mats contribute to less downtime, maximize productivity, enhance on-site operations, optimize equipment efficiency, and reduce cost overruns. Keep your project on track and within budget by seamlessly integrating access mats across your job site.

Northern Mat & Bridge (NMB): Reliable. Efficient. Superior Quality.

As Canada’s premier access solutions provider, we specialize in manufacturing, delivering, and expertly installing high-quality access mats. Our commitment ensures your crews and heavy equipment can safely navigate to and from your job site daily.

Headquartered in Calgary, AB, we have equipment and crews strategically placed throughout the country. Combined with the large inventory of products we carry, it allows us to deploy our access mats quickly and cost-efficiently to job sites across North America.

Through our integrated, turn-key model, we optimize our services, providing competitive pricing and flexible choices such as rentals, sales, and leasing. Connect with our sales team today to explore your project needs, and together we can identify the best option for you.


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Access Mats

We build a variety of access mats, also known as swamp mats, to enable crews and heavy equipment to move safely and efficiently around job sites.

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Rig Mats

Constructed with a rigid combination of 6″ I-beam steel and wood, our rig mats are designed to endure the heaviest loads.

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Crane, Timber, and Digging Mats

Crafted from top-grade hardwood lumber (No. 2 or better), our hardwood crane, timber, and digging mats offer an optimal surface for supporting excavations and the most robust equipment.

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If your next project has site accessibility challenges, our team is here to help. As Canada’s largest turn-key access solutions and ground protection provider, Northern Mat & Bridge (NMB) has enabled the safe and efficient movement of people and equipment throughout job sites across North America.

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About Northern Mat & Bridge

Headquartered in Calgary, AB, Northern Mat & Bridge (NMB) is Canada’s largest access solutions company, with equipment and crews strategically located throughout the country. Since 1999, our access mats and bridges have ensured the safe and efficient movement of people and equipment for a variety of projects across North America.

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