Guess I didn’t see the date of your original post. I did find some answers for the future. EMPCO began manufacturing units in 1964 and was bought by Comfort Control Systems in 1975, a Square D Company. Then Square D sold the division to Sun Dial which stopped manufacturing the units in the 1980’s. So we will probably not run into many of these old units.
The information came from a merger and acquisitions pdf I found online. For what it s worth and anybody else that happens to search out this discussion