Canadian Industries Limited

Canadian Industries Limited, and from 1980 C-I-L Inc., was a Canadian chemicals manufacturer. The company was founded in 1910 as Canadian Explosives Limited, and in 1927 changed its name to Canadian Industries Limited. At its inception, the company was owned jointly by Nobel Industries of Scotland and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company of Delaware. In 1926, Nobel merged with several other interests to become Imperial Chemical Industries, which retained the share in C-I-L. In 1954, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the cooperation agreement between Imperial and du Pont was unlawful. Consequently, C-I-L split its operations in two; half went to a newly incorporated C-I-L owned by Imperial, and half went to a new company called Du Pont of Canada Limited.

Canadian Industries Limited was renamed C-I-L Inc. at the beginning of 1980. The next year, the company moved its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. In April 1988, Imperial merged its Canadian arm, ICI Investments Canada Inc., with C-I-L. The merged company continued as C-I-L Inc. until May 1990, when it was renamed ICI Canada Inc. In 2008, Imperial Chemical was acquired by AkzoNobel. ICI Canada continued to exist until 9 January 2013, when the corporation was dissolved. That year, AkzoNobel sold its Canadian assets to PPG Industries, which continued the operations as PPG Architectural Coatings Canada Inc.

The C-I-L brand remains in use in paints sold by PPG and in lawn and garden products manufactured by Premier Tech.