Formadrain Marks a Quarter Century of Trenchless Technology Innovation

Formadrain Inc. is celebrating 25 years in 2019 being a pioneer of the revolutionary technology of steam-cured CIPP. Developing a no-dig technology for drain repair was not a new thought for Gerard Marc-Aurele when he founded Formadrain Inc. in 1994. In fact, he began thinking about it as early as the 1970s. The problem took a sharp focus in 1981 during a mishap in downtown Montreal, Quebec. While excavating for a lateral drain replacement at a restaurant, which happened to be located at the bottom of a slope, a clay pipe containing telephone and other communication lines was accidentally chipped.