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Over 65 Years of Innovation!
Established to become world leaders in the on-site wastewater treatment markets, Bio-Microbics and Scienco/FAST provide advanced technology for wastewater, stormwater, and water treatment industries. From its diverse past, Scienco/FAST has been a part of such influential companies as Morton Salt and Smith & Loveless, Inc.
Internationally recognized for quality products and top-notch field services, Scienco/FAST is a manufacturer specializing in marine sewage devices, biological tablets, and other industrial technologies. The origins of SCIENCO® & FAST® can be traced back to the 1940's in St. Louis, MO.
Scienco®, in the 1940s, first started as the Scientific Tablet Co. division for G.S. Suppiger Company. In the late 1940s, the Scienco® brand expanded to tablet depositing machines and salt handling products that quickly became the standard for the food industry. See an early 1947 Product Catalog!
In 1946, Smith & Loveless Inc., the original developer of FAST® (Fixed Activated Sludge Treatment) technology, was founded as a sales engineering firm representing several manufacturers in the water and wastewater treatment industry. For Smith & Loveless, sales increased rapidly in the 1950s throughout the United States and into Canada.
In the early 1950s, Morton Salt Company purchased the salt-handling division and formed Scienco® Systems. During this period, new innovations, such as the FloCRON®, Brinemakers (SciBRINE™), Sodium Hypochlorite Generators (SciCHLOR™), and Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems were developed to accommodate an increase in water treatment systems, modernizing canneries, and other industrial applications. Proprietary industrial tablets, known as Mighty Mike™ , were developed for the U.S. Navy to keep ships drains and pipes clear of Calcium and FOG.
In the late 1960s, St. Louis Ship Co. approached Smith & Loveless to develop a marine wastewater treatment device that would allow onboard wastewater to be reused for toilet flushing. This sparked the inception of FAST® Systems (with the very first FAST® System in 1969 was installed aboard the towboat M/V Missouri and was an immediate success) and the full production of what is now known as MarineFAST®. The Marine Sewage Division was formed and commercial sales began. The FAST® product would later find much success for land-based, residential and commercial onsite wastewater treatment systems.
In the 1980s, Smith & Loveless, Inc. (S&L) purchased Scienco® Systems and merged it with FAST® Systems into what is now known as Scienco/FAST Systems while serving its diverse markets.
In 1996, Bio-Microbics, Inc. was founded by S&L to develop, manufacture, and market the FAST® wastewater treatment systems for the onsite residential and commercial decentralized marketplace. Bio-Microbics has since become a world leader in manufacturing residential, community, and commercial wastewater and stormwater treatment systems and the two companies were formally joined in 2009.
Innovation has always been the core of Scienco/FAST. Decades of experience has taught us that our pre-engineered, modular components provide good installations aboard vessels and platforms of all types. The company continues to expand its product offering to include other transfer, treatment devices, and components for a multitude of applications, nitrogen reduction, oil/water separators, grease removal, membranes, renovations, aeration and mixing, biological tablets, and various other screening/filtration devices.
Today with tens of thousands of installations, Bio-Microbics and Scienco/FAST focus on products that continue to set the standard of excellence in the marine, residential, commercial, and industrial markets.
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