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1987. Founding of Conporec to find a long term solution to the problem of municipal solid waste in Bas-Richelieu region, near Montreal. Due to the increasing cost of waste management, and in the absence of any landfill in the region, innovative technologies were actively researched by local businessmen. A European technology using a bioreactor was selected by Conporec.

December 1990. Conporec executes a contract with the MRC du Bas-Richelieu which triggers the construction of the first plant using the Conporec technology in Sorel-Tracy, Canada.

January 1993. Start-up of the Sorel-Tracy plant.

January 2001 Conporec and Stearns and Wheeler Services, Inc. execute a consortium agreement for the construction of a plant using Conporec sorting-composting technology in Delhi, Delaware County (New York).

August 2004. Conporec, through its wholly owned French subsidiary Conporec SAS, together with engineering-construction firm ATEIM SA, and architects l’Atelier d’Architecture BW SA, sign a contract with SIETOM for the retrofitting of a former composting plant located 20 km southeast of Paris at Tournan-en-Brie. The new plant will use Conporec technology and have a capacity of 65 000 tons per year. Start-up of the plant is scheduled in the early 2008.

August 2005. Conporec acquires Biomax, a company with a portfolio of technologies (MaxipilePlus^TM, CompostAir^TM, RobotCompost^TM) specialized in the composting of organic matters.