[8][6] During the 1970s–1990s, the company expanded into additional prepared food markets including frozen pizza and vegetables.

[10] Based on 2014 sales, it is the 19th largest private company in Canada, according to The Globe and Mail's Report on Business.

A legal case in which McCain Foods (GB) Ltd sued Eco-Tec (Europe) Ltd. was decided by the High Court in 2011.

The system proved to be "impossible to commission successfully" and so McCain sued for compensation.

[15] Legally, the court took a broadly inclusive approach to the scope of the losses incurred by McCain and the damages due to them, declining to treat a number of items as "consequential losses" for which Eco-Tec sought protection under a contractual exclusion clause.