1997 was when Omnipole brought 'us' their clients WFP. This statement does not mean that they invented or thought up the idea, just that their company brought it to us in that year.
Alex
Thank you for making that clear.
Many manufacturers claim they started manufacturing in the 90s for example Brodex claim on their website that they started in 1997- in actual fact they started by building a stainless steel enclosed RO in 2001 which we displayed on our Cleaning Show stand and subsiqently sold several units on their behalf, which is why they decided to get into the WFP business.
The facts are that OTT ( now Ionics) and ourselves brought WFP to the UK from the USA, and developed it to make it suitable for the UK marketplace.
Tucker hadnt sold anything in the UK until OTT marketed their poles.
I am sure Alex can also confirm this.