Clean Harbors
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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.
In July of 2009 Clean Harbors purchased Eveready Inc., 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. 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.
, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste
and non-hazardous waste streams and is the largest hazardous waste disposal company in North America.
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.
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.
and compressed gases. Chemists offer chemical recognition, categorization
and packaging services, as well as secure transportation and witnessed destruction of DEA controlled substances.
and vacuum services, complete building or site decontamination
, large remediation projects and emergency response.
, 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.
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
.
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
.
services utilizing directional drills, punch trucks and auguring machines. It installs pipeline, fiber optic, cable, gas, and water and sewer lines.
and excavation, container management, and emergency response.
, Refinery
/Petrochemical
, Utilities, Retail
, Engineering
/Consulting, Health Care
, Education
, Manufacturing
, Transportation
, Steel
& Primary Metals, Government
.
Waste management
Waste management is the collection, transport, processing or disposal,managing and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics...
, energy & industrial services, including hazardous waste
Hazardous waste
A hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. According to the U.S. environmental laws hazardous wastes fall into two major categories: characteristic wastes and listed wastes.Characteristic hazardous wastes are materials that are known...
disposal for companies, including Fortune 500
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
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.
In July of 2009 Clean Harbors purchased Eveready Inc., a Canadian company that provided industrial and oil field
Oil field
An oil field is a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below ground. Because the oil reservoirs typically extend over a large area, possibly several hundred kilometres across, full exploitation entails multiple wells scattered across the area...
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. 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
S&P 400
The S&P 400 MidCap Index, more commonly known as the S&P 400, is a stock market index from Standard & Poor's.It covers roughly the mid-cap range of US stocks.-Investing:The following ETFs attempt to track this index and sub-indexes:*Index Fund: &...
mid-cap index and the S&P 1500
S&P 1500
The S&P 1500, or S&P 1500 Composite Index, is a stock market index of US stocks made by Standard & Poor's. It includes all stocks in the S&P 500, S&P 400, and S&P 600.-Annual returns:-External links:* * *...
composite index.
Waste Disposal & Recycling
RecyclingRecycling
Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse...
, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste
Hazardous waste
A hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. According to the U.S. environmental laws hazardous wastes fall into two major categories: characteristic wastes and listed wastes.Characteristic hazardous wastes are materials that are known...
and non-hazardous waste streams and is the largest hazardous waste disposal company in North America.
It processes drum and bulk waste in liquid, solid, semi-solid, sludge and gas forms. Technologies include recycling, incineration
Incineration
Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and...
, wastewater
Wastewater
Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences, commercial properties, industry, and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations...
treatment and landfill
Landfill
A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...
disposal. It also offers specialized fuel blending and explosives management services, PCB
Polychlorinated biphenyl
Polychlorinated biphenyls are a class of organic compounds with 2 to 10 chlorine atoms attached to biphenyl, which is a molecule composed of two benzene rings. The chemical formula for PCBs is C12H10-xClx...
, reactive
Chemical reaction
A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another. Chemical reactions can be either spontaneous, requiring no input of energy, or non-spontaneous, typically following the input of some type of energy, such as heat, light or electricity...
wastes processing at EPA-approved facilities.
Emergency Response Services
Responds to environmental emergencies performing disaster recoveryDisaster recovery
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity...
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
Logistics
Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...
, project management and operations.
Chemical Packing
Packs, ships and processes laboratory chemicals, hazardous and reactive chemicals, radioactive materials, and cylindersGas cylinder
A gas cylinder is a pressure vessel used to store gases at above atmospheric pressure. High pressure gas cylinders are also called bottles. Although they are sometimes colloquially called "tanks", this is technically incorrect, as a tank is a vessel used to store liquids at ambient pressure and...
and compressed gases. Chemists offer chemical recognition, categorization
Chemical Abstracts Service
Chemical Abstracts is a periodical index that provides summaries and indexes of disclosures in recently published scientific documents. Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent...
and packaging services, as well as secure transportation and witnessed destruction of DEA controlled substances.
Field Services
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 entryConfined space
Confined space is a term from labor-safety regulations that refers to an area whose enclosed conditions and limited access make it dangerous.- Description :...
and vacuum services, complete building or site decontamination
Contamination control
Contamination control is the generic term for all activities aiming to control the existence, growth and proliferation of contamination in certain areas...
, large remediation projects and emergency response.
Industrial Services
Industrial services include outage and turnaround services, decoking and piggingPigging
Pigging in the context of pipelines refers to the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges or 'pigs' to perform various maintenance operations on a pipeline. This is done without stopping the flow of the product in the pipeline....
, high-pressure services, chemical cleaning, liquid/dry vacuuming, internal pipe inspection
Pipeline video inspection
Pipeline video inspection is a form of telepresence used to visually inspect the interiors of pipelines. A common application is to determine the condition of small diameter sewer lines and household connection pipes....
, rehabilitation and coating
Coating
Coating is a covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. In many cases coatings are applied to improve surface properties of the substrate, such as appearance, adhesion, wetability, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and scratch resistance...
, and large storage tank and surface impoundment cleaning. It also offers container management services and tray tower, column and reactor
Reactor
Reactor can mean:* Bioreactor, any device or system that supports a biologically active environment.* Chemical reactor, a device for containing and controlling a chemical reaction* Nuclear reactor, a device for containing and controlling a nuclear reaction...
maintenance services.
Oilfield Services
Provides maintenance and turnaroundTurnaround (refining)
Turnarounds are scheduled events wherein an entire process unit of an industrial plant is taken offstream for an extended period for revamp and/or renewal...
services to support oil well production, including flush-by services, hot oiling, coil tubing, stable foam services, wet and dry vacuuming, tank cleaning
Automated tank cleaning machine
An automated tank cleaning machine is a machine used to clean cargo tanks such as those found in tank trucks, railroad cars, barges, and oil tankers...
, pressure trucks, steamer-vac and slickline
Slickline
Slickline refers to a tool used in the oil and gas industry, but also describes that niche of the industry that involves using a slickline truck or doing a slickline job....
units. It also offers fluid and solid transportation and disposal and hydro-excavation
Suction excavator
A suction excavator or vacuum excavator is a construction vehicle that removes earth from a hole on land, or removes heavy debris on land, from various places, by powerful suction through a wide suction pipe which is up to a foot or so diameter...
.
Exploration Services
Services include land and aerial surveying employing GPSGlobal Positioning System
The Global Positioning System is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites...
and LIDAR
LIDAR
LIDAR is an optical remote sensing technology that can measure the distance to, or other properties of a target by illuminating the target with light, often using pulses from a laser...
(Light Detection And Ranging) to create a Digital Elevation Model
Digital elevation model
A digital elevation model is a digital model or 3-D representation of a terrain's surface — commonly for a planet , moon, or asteroid — created from terrain elevation data....
(DEM) project areas. It also provides line clearing and construction, and track and heli-portable seismic drilling
Drilling
Drilling is a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut or enlarge a hole in solid materials. The drill bit is a multipoint, end cutting tool...
.
Directional Boring Services
The company offers the oil and gas industry and municipalities directional boringDirectional boring
Directional boring, commonly called horizontal directional drilling or HDD, is a steerable trenchless method of installing underground pipes, conduits and cables in a shallow arc along a prescribed bore path by using a surface launched drilling rig, with minimal impact on the surrounding area....
services utilizing directional drills, punch trucks and auguring machines. It installs pipeline, fiber optic, cable, gas, and water and sewer lines.
Lodging Services
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.Onsite Services
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, hydrodemolitionHydrodemolition
Hydrodemolition is a concrete removal technique which utilizes high-pressure water to remove deteriorated and sound concrete as well as asphalt and grout. This process provides an excellent bonding surface for repair material and new coating applications...
and excavation, container management, and emergency response.
Industries Served
Chemical/Specialty Chemical, Pharmaceutical/BiotechnologyBiotechnology
Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...
, Refinery
Oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas...
/Petrochemical
Petrochemical
Petrochemicals are chemical products derived from petroleum. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable sources such as corn or sugar cane....
, Utilities, Retail
Retail
Retail consists of the sale of physical goods or merchandise from a fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Retailing may include subordinated services, such as delivery. Purchasers may be...
, Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
/Consulting, Health Care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
, Education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
, Transportation
Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of people, cattle, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations...
, Steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
& Primary Metals, Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
.