Who are we?

Our founder, the late Raymond Couture, was an accomplished expert in matters of construction technology and had many patents to his name. He had always been curious as to why staircase construction was the last element in residential building to resist any technological advance.

It became Mr. Couture's goal to simplify staircase construction so that it would no longer require the specialised labour skills that are increasingly difficult to find.

In 2002 he founded the Case-Modular Stair System Company with his long time lawyer and friend Peter Turner of Sutton, Quebec. Shortly thereafter they were joined by Jon Eakes the widely known and highly respected authority on construction technology. Mr Eakes, for years hosted his own television and radio shows and now appears on his very popular website Jon Eakes.

The team quickly grew to include Tyler Sutherland a building contractor in Orillia Ontario, Patrick Turner, M.Arch, University of Toronto, who has his own design practice under the name Thout Design, in Montreal, and Geoffrey Webber M.B.A., D.Fisc. University of Sherbrooke, who is a partner the accounting firm Joly Riendeau Duke, in Cowansville Quebec.

In the summer of 2010 Charles Kobelt joined the group as a shareholder and was appointed President and CEO of Case-Modular stair Systems Inc. Mr. Kobelt comes from a remarkable career in the transportation industry in which he established,built, and ultimately sold, a major presence in transport brokerage in Canada. In looking for a new entrepreneurial challenge he identified Case- Modular as a prime prospect and thus now leads the original team.

This management group works closely together to introduce to the market a product that they believe brings stair building, for the first time, to the ready capability of both the competent carpenter and the talented do-it-yourselfer.