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No longer relying primarily on local refineries
and chemical plants, SPS diversified and began
marketing to other manufacturing industries.
Today SPS is one of North America’s leading
industrial solutions businesses, specializing
in providing plastic-lined piping, instrumenta-
tion and safety products to a wide range of in-
dustries that includes refinery, petrochemical,
pulp and paper, food and drug, power, mining,
water treatment, automotive and manufac-
turing. They’ve evolved far beyond the days
of selling equipment from behind a counter;
products are just a part of the business, which
now focuses on four key services: engineering,
system integration, project management and
maintenance.
FROM PARTS TO SYSTEM
INTEGRATION
Rather than individual parts, SPS will provide
companies with sample stations as part of their
system integration service, bundling products
like small instrumental valves, tube fittings,
pressure gauges and thermometers in one
package. That service was the beginning of a
company transformation from a local Ontario
distributor to a Canada-wide supplier, and be-
