# Engineering Blue Book — who's actually on it, and a message that gets a reply (23 Oct 2026)

## What the site is
Engineering Blue Book is a **supplier/consultant directory**, not a firm. Publisher contact: 901 34th Avenue North #7064, St. Petersburg FL 33734 (adsupport@associationmediagroup.com, 804-469-8790); Canadian office **5000 Yonge Street, Suite 701, North York M2N 7E9, 1-866-763-1654**. Listings carry name, address, phone and a blurb. There is no email published per listing — which means contact is by **phone or the site's own contact form**, not by cold email.

Scale of the directory (category counts from the site's own listing index):
- **Durable Manufacturing 618** · **Engineering 201** · **Recruiters 149** · **Non-Durable Manufacturing 100** · Public Sector 88 · Non-profit 69 · Service Providers 56 · Education 49 · Test & Measurement 28 · Heavy Manufacturing 7
- Under "Engineering": Industrial (292 under Durable), Mechanical **40**, Design **28**, Energy **25**, Oil & Petroleum 24, Transportation 24, Automotive 21, Aerospace 21, Mining 19, Automation/Controls **16**, Electrical 17, Healthcare 15, Security Systems 6, Nuclear 5

## The finding that changes the approach
The **"General Engineering"** bucket is almost entirely **executive search / recruitment firms** — Heidrick & Struggles, Ian Martin, TSC Group, HCR Permanent Search, PHM Search, EnerSearch, HR-Fusion, Drakkar, Future Executive Personnel. That is 149 of the ~500 Ontario entries. If the intent was to reach engineering *companies*, the General Engineering list is the wrong list; it's recruiters who would want to place people with you, not hire you.

The lists worth working for a CAD/CAE-consulting pitch are: **Automation/Controls (16), Mechanical (40), Design (28), Automotive (21), Energy (25), Mining (19), Transportation (24)**.

## Verified contacts pulled from the directory
Toronto / GTA, with phone numbers as published:
- **SEW-Eurodrive Company of Canada Ltd.** — 4950 Yonge St, Suite 502, Toronto M2N 6K1 — **1-866-763-1654** (Automotive, Electronics, Industrial, Mining, Mechanical)
- **CSA Group** — 178 Rexdale Blvd, Toronto M9W 1R3 — **416-747-4365** (General)
- **Calian** — 123 Slater St, Suite 500, Ottawa K1P 5H2 — **613-238-2600** (General)
- **Robinson Consultants Inc.** — 350 Palladium Dr, Kanata K2V 1A8 — **613-592-6060** (General / civil)
- **Jones Consulting Group Ltd.** — 229 Mapleview Dr E, Unit 1, Barrie L4N 0W5 — **705-734-2538** (General / land development)
- **TWD Technologies Ltd.** — 905 Century Dr, Burlington L7L 5J8 — **905-634-3324** (General / engineering)
- **EVAMAX Inc.** — 50 Burnhamthorpe Rd W, Suite 401, Mississauga L5B 3C2 — **905-290-5555** (General)
- **GENIVAR Inc.** — 600 Cochrane Dr, Suite 500, Markham L3R 5K3 — **905-475-7270** (now WSP; legacy listing)
- **Spirax Sarco Canada Ltd.** — 383 Applewood Cres, Concord L4K 4J3 — **905-660-5510** (General / industrial)
- **John Towle Associates Ltd.** — 665 Hood Rd, 2nd Floor, Markham L3R 4E1 — **905-475-8705** (General)
- **LEaC Shield / WATERSHIELD** — corrosion/water infrastructure program (Utilities, Institutional, Green Building)
Additionally the recruiters, if a hiring conversation is wanted: Heidrick & Struggles 416-361-4700, TSC Group 416-494-6868, HCR Permanent Search 416-622-8882, Ian Martin 613-271-0155 x264.

## Honest limitation
The **sub-category pages (Automation/Controls, Mechanical, Design) return an access error to my fetcher** — I could enumerate the category *counts* and the General/General-Engineering entries, but not page through all 201 engineering firms. So this is 11 verified contacts out of ~500, skewed toward the General buckets. Getting the rest needs either a browser session or the site's contact form for a directory export.

## Draft message (phone script / contact-form text, under 100 words)
> Hello — I'm Anjal Patel, P.Eng., of CADsmart (Mississauga). We provide CAD drafting, FEA/CFD simulation and engineering documentation support to manufacturers and consulting firms — overflow capacity, not headcount.
>
> I'm reaching out because [firm] appears in Engineering Blue Book under [category]. Would you be open to a 15-minute call to see whether overflow CAD/CAE support is useful to you? If you'd rather, I can register CADsmart as a supplier through your standard vendor process.
>
> Anjal Patel, P.Eng. — CADsmart — anjal@cadsmart.ca

## Blocker
Two things: (1) whether the goal is **selling CADsmart services** or something else (the task doesn't say), and (2) a way to pull the remaining listings — the sub-category pages are blocked to me, so a browser scroll or the site's export would be the input that turns 11 contacts into 200.