In the early years, Ralph McDonell, owner and founder of E.C.S. Technologies Inc. started a small silver recovery business back in the 60’s with an average silver price of $ 1.69/t.oz. After designing and building an electrolytic silver recovery unit for a Toronto Photo Lab, Ralph realized the potential in the market place and ventured out on his own. Ralph started the business by picking up different photo chemicals from printers and photo labs in his Mustang convertible and desilvering these solutions on-site at his warehouse.

Over the next 10 years, Ralph continued to expand the business by recycling and processing expired x-ray film and litho film. He also established a complete custom line of silver recovery equipment. In the mid 90’s, E.C.S. continued its upward growth. Now with more employees, his own manufacturing facility for silver recovery and related equipment and in-house silver refinery, Ralph’s customer base began to expand across Canada. Offices in Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Edmonton and Halifax were opened to facilitate E.C.S. Technologies continued growth.

Now one of the largest silver recovery companies in Canada, E.C.S. Technologies Inc. still operates our Head Office out of Barrie, ON. Our recycling programs are increasing and customer awareness is growing thanks to a large part of everyone believing and knowing that they can make a difference. People are being educated and are realizing that they can’t just pour any chemicals down the drain without proper treatment. (In a lot of cases such as in the printing, automotive and machining industries, these chemicals aren’t even allowed to go down the drain.) While our business continues to grow our focus on the environment and recycling grows with it. E.C.S. has a friendly team of sales and service staff who eagerly look after our clientele. With services and equipment that we can offer any world-wide client, we want to make a difference. It is with this team effort that E.C.S. continues to succeed in these industries, by offering what others don’t - SATISFACTION