The history of EQWin Software Inc. and the EQWin^® software itself are inseparably linked and go back almost to the earliest days of personal computers.

The software, originally known as the EQ System, was developed by Teck Resources Ltd. in the late 1970's as an in-house system to manage and report on environmental data gathered from their global mining and exploration operations. The software was ported to the IBM-PC platform as soon as it came out in 1980, and has been continually enhanced over the years to keep up with new environmental information requirements and emerging technology. However, it was not until 1995, after Teck had completed the Microsoft Windows-based version and renamed it EQWin, that they saw its potential as a commercially viable software product and subsequently began marketing it within the mining industry. GemTeck Environmental Software Ltd. was formed as a separate company in 1998 in order to further the development and marketing of EQWin and to capitalize on its potential. Teck sold its shares of GemTeck in 2009 and the company was then renamed to EQWin Software Inc.

EQWin Software Inc. now provides EQWin software and services world-wide to hundreds of mining operations, solid waste management companies and environmental consultants in Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, New Caledonia, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.