1971 Grace revolutionizes the meat packaging industry with the introduction of the Barrier Bag for packaging fresh subprimal red meats. Grace opens offices in Colombia and Malaysia. Grace builds its first European manufacturing facility for catalysts and silica products in Worms, Germany. 1974 Grace expands packaging operations in Argentina. Grace Davison is chosen to supply silicas for Union Carbide's new Unipol gas phase process for production of linear, low-density polyethylene.
Grace opens offices in Thailand.
Grace builds Sorocaba, Brazil plant, its first silica production facility in Latin America. Grace enters residuum hydroprocessing catalyst business with proprietary ebullating bed catalysts. 1983 Grace begins manufacturing fluid cracking catalysts in Europe. Grace introduces new packaging system for bulk liquid and semi-liquid food products. Grace commercializes ZSM 5-based cracking catalyst additives for increasing octane and petrochemical feedstocks.