Article: Filling a plastic niche: Berg's gets $17.5 million Army contract.

Byline: Tom Sowa

Aug. 7--A Spokane company whose history includes selling tents to the U.S. Army during the two world wars has seen the future, and it's mostly made of high-quality vinyl and metal, not canvas. Berg Companies, the rechristened version of what used to be F.O. Berg Co., recently landed a $17.5 million federal contract to provide 3,000-gallon water containment systems for the U.S. Army. Those containers, called onion tanks, are made of high-grade polyurethane. The 75-employee company, with offices at 16124 E. Euclid in Spokane, has recast itself as a support-systems manufacturer, looking to sell "integrated remote-site systems" to government ...

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