1987 – Laporte Group Australia, Botany, NSW – AO Plant Upgrade – Design, supply, installation, commissioning of instrumentation and electrical cabling, termination, control panels, DAS system using Yokogawa 1 Micro X6 system;  Installation of  fire protection system.

1987 – Boral Australia, Port Botany, NSW – LPG Tank Farm – Design and installation of control equipment, SCADA system and manufacture of control panels

1986 – Interox Chemicals, Northern Territory and South Australia – Peroxide Dosing Plants – Design, supply, installation of controls and electrical systems.

1983-1986 – Santos, Port Bonython, South Australia – Liquids Terminal and Refinery – Project management, engineering installation of instrumentation of control/computer and DAS panels

In 1980 they acquired more clients such as Santos for their Liquid Gas & Liquid Load-Out facility at Whyalla. (See Projects Timeline below).

The company moved to Artarmon in 1978 as it grew from 3 employees to 10 employees. It won numerous projects in their expert field for Union Carbide, Monsanto, and CSR, Shell, Laporte/Solvay Interox and others.

Thompson Controls was initially established in 1973 as Tryton Instrumentation. It was located at the rear of a hairdressing salon in Northbridge and employed 3 staff. As Tryton grew it started to provide more electrical, process instrumentation and technical services to a particular niche markets and grew steadily in that sector. Clients included: CSR Chemicals at Rhodes, CSR Sugar at Pyrmont, and numerous smaller companies and projects.