National Response Corporation Acquires SWS Environmental Services
Aiswarya Lakshmi
National Response Corporation (NRC) has acquired SWS
Environmental Services (SWS), significantly adding to its
national footprint and expanding its full line of compliance and
environmental services.
Since 1974, SWS has been providing a broad range of essential
services including industrial, hazardous waste management,
emergency response, marine, and remediation services to the
energy, manufacturing, education, healthcare, chemical,
transportation, government, and retail sectors. Employing over
250 personnel, SWS is a customer-focused company with 21
locations servicing 17 states throughout the Midwest, Gulf Coast,
and Southeastern U.S.
NRC combines extensive technical expertise, broad geographic
reach, differentiated assets, essential regulatory
certifications, and a specialized workforce to address customers'
recurring environmental service and regulatory compliance
requirements, including standby, industrial, hazardous waste
management, emergency response, marine, and remediation services.
The Company is the largest commercial oil spill response
organization (OSRO) with worldwide operations.
"This acquisition truly complements our existing U.S. footprint
with virtually no overlap, enhancing our ability to reach
customers throughout the U.S." said NRC CEO Paul Taveira. "It
strengthens our national capabilities and our geographic reach,
better enabling us to service our national and international
client base."
"This acquisition enhances our capabilities to provide our core
suite of services to our national and regional customers,
providing them with greater synergies across their entire
enterprise," added Lou O'Brien, SVP Sales & Marketing. "For
more than 24 years, NRC has been renowned for its oil spill
standby and response capabilities. We have now completed nine
strategic acquisitions over the past five years including ENPRO
Services, Op-Tech Environmental Services, Sureclean Limited,
Emerald Alaska, Specialized Response Solutions, Boom Technology,
Water Truck Services, and CleanLine WWS. As a result, we now
provide a broader suite of compliance and environmental services
than any other company in our market segments."
Eric Zimmer, SWS CEO commented, "We are excited to join the NRC
group which will allow us to expand our geographic footprint. We
will continue to provide our clients with cost-effective
solutions to a wide range of environmental concerns while growing
our business using NRC's strong global presence."
May 15, 2018