The plant celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997 as part of the Port Metro Vancouver's industrial complex.

View from Burnaby Mountain

Second Narrows and Site - 1955

The plant opened in 1957, the year that construction crews started building the Second Narrows Bridge. The contractor was Marwell Construction, a Vancouver-owned firm that also built most of the key pulp and paper mills in British Columbia.

The original owner was New Jersey-based Hooker Chemicals, a supplier of chemicals to the forest industry in British Columbia and Alberta. In 1968 the plant became part of Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. and was renamed Occidental Chemicals. Then, in 2000 when the company separated from its largest shareholder, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, it was renamed Nexen Chemicals.

In 1996 the most significant change in the plant’s history occurred when Nexen’s chemical business was restructured as the Canexus Income Fund. Today, we are no longer part of the oil and gas business, but are dedicated exclusively to producing chemicals and marketing them to a rapidly expanding North American market.

Back

	Disclaimer	Privacy
Copyright Canexus Limited 2006-2012