Company Profile
Company Overview
Pure Technologies is a world leader in the development and application of innovative technologies for inspection, monitoring and management of physical infrastructure including water and hydrocarbon pipelines, buildings and bridges.
From its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and through regional offices around the world, Pure has developed innovative, proprietary and patented technologies to provide infrastructure owners with comprehensive, state-of-the-art information. Pure’s services along with the corresponding technologies include:
Proprietary monitoring equipment for pipelines, bridges and structures
•SoundPrint® acoustic monitoring technology
•SoundPrint® AFO: acoustic fibre-optic monitoring technology
Technical services including inspection, leak detection and condition assessment
•Electromagnetics
•SmartBall® and Sahara® pipeline leak detection technologies
•CableScan magnetostrictive sensing identifies anomalies in bridge cables
Specialized engineering services, primarily in the area of pipeline condition assessment for water and wastewater infrastructure
•Openaka specializes in assessing, repairing, and managing pipelines with a focus on prestressed concrete cylinder pipes (PCCP)
•Jason Consultants is a specialty consultancy focused on underground infrastructure engineering and technology
•Aqua Environmental provides services relating to leak detection, water loss management and pipeline condition assessment in Australia and New Zealand
Company History
1993
Pure begins business as ‘Sextant Enterprise Corporation’, a part-time company looking at acoustic sensors to detect physical changes in building and bridge structures. The unique SoundPrint® technology is developed to provide infrastructure owners with continuous, remote structural monitoring.
1994
Pure installs its first full-scale SoundPrint acoustic monitoring system on an office building in Calgary. The system is still in operation.
1997
Pure lists on the Alberta stock exchange to raise funds to grow and expand into the international arena. In the same year, Pure enters the water and wastewater market by adapting SoundPrint to monitor large-diameter prestressed concrete pipelines.
1998
In addition to its first bridge monitoring installation (on the Huntington Viaduct in the UK), Pure installs a SoundPrint system on the cable-supported roof of the Calgary Saddledome. Both systems remain in operation today.
2000
The Great Man Made River Project (GMRP) in Libya, one of the world’s largest pipeline networks, signs its first contract with Pure. SoundPrint is initially used to acoustically monitor 3km of the pipeline, but the length and scope grows quickly. Additional installations of the technology have followed, and several hundred kilometres are now being monitored.
2002
Pure commercializes two new technologies; P-Wave® for the electromagnetic testing of large-diameter PCCP, and PureLink, an automated surveillance and alarm management technology.
2004
Pure solidifies its position as the world leader in providing innovative, non-destructive evaluation and monitoring technologies for owners and managers of large infrastructure. Pure branches into the oil and gas pipeline industry by marketing SoundPrint AFO.
2005
Pure develops the revolutionary SmartBall® technology to address the need for leak detection of large-diameter pipelines. It also acquires consulting engineering firm Openaka Corporation to complement Pure’s services to owners of PCCP. Pure also completes its first CableScan project for testing and assessment of bridge suspender rope cables.
2007
Pure opens a Branch office in Benghazi, Libya to support the growing scope of work with the GMRP and further pursue opportunities in the Middle East/Africa region.
2008
Pure acquires Price Brothers (UK) Ltd., an engineering company providing pipe manufacturing support and construction supervision services to the GMRP in Libya. Elsewhere, Pure’s subsidiary Openaka is selected to negotiate a long-term PCCP management program with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, worth up to $25 million.
2009
The Company acquires Jason Consultants, a specialty consultancy focused on underground infrastructure engineering services. Pure also acquires Pipe Eye International, a B.C.-based company offering high-margin in-pipe inspection robots. Pure opens an office in Abu Dhabi, UAE to extend the global reach of technologies and services.
2010
Marks a milestone year for Pure with the acquisition of its only direct competitor, the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company (PPIC). The company also acquires Aqua Environmental Pty. Ltd., a privately-held provider of pipeline leak detection and condition assessment services for Australia and New Zealand. The Company establishes a joint venture in China, opening an office in Hong Kong.
2011
Today Pure is a world leader in the development and application of innovative technologies for inspection, monitoring and management of physical infrastructure, focused primarily on the water and wastewater pipeline industry. In January, Pure acquired the Inspection Division of Specialized Technical Services (STS), an Abu Dhabi-based company involved in inspection and monitoring of water, wastewater and oil & gas pipelines. In June, Pure acquired Electromechanical Technologies, Inc. (“EMTEK”), a developer of advanced pipeline inspection technologies. The acquisition positions Pure in the market for condition assessment of metallic water and wastewater pipelines.