| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | NYSE: CLH |
| Industry | Waste Management |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Founder(s) | Alan S. McKim |
| Headquarters | Norwell, MA, U.S.A. |
| Services | Environmental & Industrial |
| Employees | 6399 [1] |
| Website | http://www.cleanharbors.com/ |
Clean Harbors, Inc is a provider of environmental, energy & industrial services, including hazardous waste disposal for companies, including Fortune 500 companies and federal, state, provincial and local governments.
Established in 1980 by current CEO Alan McKim the company has since expanded to approximately 175 locations in North America including over 50 hazardous waste management facilities in 36 U.S. states, seven Canadian provinces, Mexico and Puerto Rico. It also operates international locations in China, Thailand, Singapore, Bulgaria, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[2]
In July 2009 Clean Harbors purchased Eveready Inc.,[3] a Canadian company that provided industrial and oil field maintenance and production, lodging, and exploration services to the oil and gas, chemical, pulp and paper, manufacturing and power generation industries. This acquisition expanded Clean Harbors’ industrial services capabilities, as well as its presence in Canada.
On June 10, 2011, Clean Harbors purchased Peak Energy Services Ltd.[4] through its wholly owned subsidiary Clean Harbors Industrial Services Canada, Inc. Peak is a diversified energy services organization operating in Canada and the United States. It provides drilling and production services to the oil and natural gas industry as well as for oil sands operations. Peak also provides water technology solutions throughout North America.
The company is included in the S&P 400 mid-cap index and the S&P 1500 composite index.[5]
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Recycling, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste streams and is the largest hazardous waste disposal company in North America.[6] It processes drum and bulk waste in liquid, solid, semi-solid, sludge and gas forms. Technologies include recycling, incineration, wastewater treatment and landfill disposal. It also offers specialized fuel blending and explosives management services, PCB, reactive wastes processing at EPA-approved facilities.
Responds to environmental emergencies performing disaster recovery operations on land and water throughout North America. It responds to chemical spills, biological and infectious contaminations in educational to industrial laboratories to large-scale multiphase containment and clean-ups of coastal oil spills, or damage from natural disasters for companies and governments. Consulting services include emergency preparedness planning, logistics, project management and operations.
Packs, ships and processes laboratory chemicals, hazardous and reactive chemicals, radioactive materials, and cylinders and compressed gases. Chemists offer chemical recognition, categorization and packaging services, as well as secure transportation and witnessed destruction of DEA controlled substances.
Provides skilled labor and specialty equipment to perform various environmental cleanup services on customer sites or other locations. Field service crews perform scheduled or emergency industrial cleaning and respond to chemical and oil spills. The company performs sump and tank pump-outs, tank cleaning requiring confined space entry and vacuum services, complete building or site decontamination, large remediation projects and emergency response.
Industrial services include outage and turnaround services, decoking and pigging, high-pressure services, chemical cleaning, liquid/dry vacuuming, internal pipe inspection, rehabilitation and coating, and large storage tank and surface impoundment cleaning. It also offers container management services and tray tower, column and reactor maintenance services.
Provides maintenance and turnaround services to support oil well production, including flush-by services, hot oiling, coil tubing, stable foam services, wet and dry vacuuming, tank cleaning, pressure trucks, steamer-vac and slickline units. It also offers fluid and solid transportation and disposal and hydro-excavation.
Services include land and aerial surveying employing GPS and LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) to create a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) project areas. It also provides line clearing and construction, and track and heli-portable seismic drilling.
The company offers the oil and gas industry and municipalities directional boring services utilizing directional drills, punch trucks and auguring machines. It installs pipeline, fiber optic, cable, gas, and water and sewer lines.
Clean Harbors supplies temporary and permanent industrial lodges and drill camps to oilfield and energy companies in Canada’s North. The lodges are available for use by the workers of a single company or are provided as open lodges that are available for use by any company or individual.
The company provides environmental and industrial services on customer sites that include asset management, regulatory compliance, waste management, waste minimization and recycling, management and regulatory reporting and environmental program administration. It also provides vacuum services, tank cleaning, hydro-blasting services, chemical and abrasive cleaning, high volume pumping, hydrodemolition and excavation, container management, and emergency response.
Chemical/Specialty Chemical, Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology, Refinery/Petrochemical, Utilities, Retail, Engineering/Consulting, Health Care, Education, Manufacturing, Transportation, Steel & Primary Metals, Government.