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Clean Harbors has grown to become North America's largest environmental service company since its inception in 1980. The company, founded by Alan S. McKim, began as a small four-person tank cleaning business. Today, Clean Harbors is a publicly traded company that maintains a vast network of service centers and waste management, treatment and disposal facilities and provides a broad range of environmental services. Services include hazardous and non-hazardous waste transportation and disposal, laboratory chemical packing, emergency response, field services, and industrial maintenance. Mr. McKim continues to lead the company as President and Chief Executive Officer.

Clean Harbors' growth is the result of geographic and service line expansion, market penetration, and the formation or acquisition of waste management companies and treatment, storage and disposal facilities. Its first major expansion was in the early 1980's with the acquisition of the Braintree and Natick, Massachusetts facilities. In 1989, Clean Harbors purchased Chem Clear, Inc., a company nationally recognized for its industrial aqueous waste treatment capabilities with facilities located in Chicago, Cleveland, and Baltimore.

While the Chem Clear acquisition helped catapult Clean Harbors firmly into the waste disposal business, Clean Harbors continued to expand its geographic coverage by adding a Connecticut and a second Ohio treatment facility. Clean Harbors solidified its position as a full-service hazardous waste disposal provider with vast in-house disposal resources with its acquisition of the Kimball, Nebraska incinerator in 1995.

While broadening disposal and waste processing capabilities, Clean Harbors also further developed existing service lines such as field services. Since 1980, field service centers have been strategically located across North America to provide customers with emergency response services and to perform planned work on customer locations. These centers service thousands of customers in multiple industries.

Service lines have also been created to meet customer demand. Clean Harbors' laboratory chemical packing services, CleanPackâ, was formed in 1986 to provide industries, schools and universities, as well as communities with vital services to manage the collection, packaging and disposal of laboratory chemical and household hazardous waste. With the creation of the Reactive Materials Teams, Clean Harbors can respond to the most hazardous and dangerous chemical situations. Beginning in the northeastern United States and extending over time to the South and West, today, Clean Harbors' CleanPack teams provide service from coast-to-coast.

Clean Harbors Industrial Services was formed in 1998. The company's industrial service crews focus on industrial cleaning and maintenance projects that typically require fast turnaround and may include chemical cleaning, hydroblasting, liquid/dry vacuuming, sodium bicarbonate blasting, and steam cleaning of equipment and systems.

On September 6, 2002, Clean Harbors acquired the assets of the Chemical Services Division of Safety-Kleen Corporation. This acquisition is, by far, the company's most ambitious and largest one. The Chemical Services Division, which was made up of 55 service centers, 33 waste management facilities and 4,400 employees, when combined with Clean Harbors existing locations helped create the largest network of disposal technologies and environmental services in North America. Today, Clean Harbors has 48 waste management facilities offering a wide range of disposal options including incineration, wastewater treatment, and landfill, recycling and specialty disposal services. Clean Harbors' network of over 100 service locations provides transportation and disposal, laboratory chemical packing, and field and industrial services on customer sites.

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Ticker symbol: CLHB
Year founded: 1980
Corporate Type: Public
Work Environment: Challenging
Primary Business: Environmental
 
Clean Harbors