Superior Plus Corp. of Calgary, Alberta acquires the business from Sterling Pulp Chemicals. The business becomes the ERCO Worldwide division.
Thunder Bay, Ontario Broadway Avenue sodium chlorite plant built at Abitibi-Bowater pulp mill.
ERCO purchases Saskatoon, Saskatchewan facility for sodium chlorate, chlor-alkali and calcium hypochlorite from Weyerhaeuser Company. Plant start-ups were chlor-alkali in 1962, conversion from mercury to membrane in 1978, and sodium chlorate in 1980, later expanded in 1990.
Start-up of the Valdosta, Georgia ERCO designed and built 100,000 tonne per year sodium chlorate plant.
Sterling Chemicals of Houston, Texas acquires the Albright and Wilson Americas pulp chemicals division from Tenneco and renames it Sterling Pulp Chemicals. The phosphorus products division is sold to Rhodia Chemicals.
Grande Prairie, Alberta – ERCO designs and builds a 50,000 tonne per year sodium chlorate plant.
North Vancouver sodium chlorate expansion (Line 8).
Buckingham sodium chlorate expansion (Line 3).
Buckingham sodium chlorate expansion (Line 2) and construction of first sodium chlorite plant. Company name changed to Albright & Wilson Americas, a division of Tenneco Canada Inc.
First R8 chlorine dioxide generator is sold. The R8 generator technology generates chlorine dioxide without chlorine and eventually permits the pulp industry to switch to elemental chlorine free pulp production – and environmental improvement over previous technologies. ERCO goes on to sell over 100 of these plants world-wide.