Dave and Dennis VanderGriend co-found ICM and start manufacturing dryers that improve the quality and longevity of distillers grains.

ICM files patent applications for ethanol distillation columns in the U.S., with Dennis VanderGriend as inventor. ICM designs and builds its first ethanol plant in North America.

ICM builds a research facility for developing and testing new technologies on a commercial scale.

ICM designs its 100th plant in North America.

An ICM-designed plant begins operations in Hungary.

ICM begins project development in Brazil.

An ICM-designed plant begins operations in Argentina.

ICM opens an office in Brazil to directly serve the South American market.

Brazil's first stand-alone corn biorefinery is designed by ICM and begins production.

ICM Brazil completes a second standalone corn biorefinery in addition to a technology and retrofit package.

Construction begins on the first of three APP™ projects. ICM opens a larger office in São Paulo, Brazil, with 20 local employees.

ICM completes a third standalone corn biorefinery in Brazil.