Veolia acquires 3 hazardous waste management companies

Veolia North America, a Boston-based subsidiary of France-based Veolia group, has announced actions to expand its hazardous waste treatment and disposal business in North America through investment, acquisitions and capacity expansion.

The company announced $350 million in global investments worldwide, including three new U.S. acquisitions in Massachusetts and California, and reaffirmed plans to expand existing facilities.

In Massachusetts, the company has acquired New England Disposal Technologies, a Sutton-based full-service industrial and hazardous waste management company, and New England MedWaste, a Middleton-based regulated medical waste management company. With these acquisitions, Veolia now operates the state’s only permitted medical waste disposal facility, as well as two of the state’s three permitted household hazardous waste disposal sites. The acquisitions also expand Veolia’s leadership in serving the Massachusetts healthcare and life science industries, the company says. 

In California, the company has acquired Ingenium, an Escondido-based waste management service firm specializing in packaging, transportation, recycling and disposal of hazardous, non-hazardous, biological, universal and radioactive waste. The acquisition builds on a prior strategic partnership between the two companies to lock in guaranteed high-temperature treatment capacity for customers at Veolia incinerators.  

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“Our team is proud to be at the forefront of Veolia’s plans to lead the hazardous waste industry, by investing in growth, expanded capacity and new environmental technologies,” says Bob Cappadona, president and CEO of Veolia’s North American Environmental Solutions and Services business. “The teams at New England Disposal Technologies, New England MedWaste and Ingenium are outstanding performers and are aligned with our GreenUp strategy, our purpose-driven and our customer-centric approach. Together we are positioned to make a real difference for the industry and the planet.”

Veolia North America, which owns six high-temperature incinerators at three sites in the United States—in Port Arthur, Texas; Gum Springs, Arkansas; and Sauget, Illinois—also provided an update on the expansion of its high-temperature hazardous waste treatment facility in Gum Springs. The facility has been undergoing a multi-year expansion that will make it one of the most technologically advanced and environmentally sustainable facilities of its kind in the world, the company says.

The new incinerator design incorporates energy recovery to produce power for the site and therefore is subject to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recycling designation of H050 for wastes received for treatment. The company says this designation, coupled with multiple environmental awards already received by the project, further reinforces its position as a provider of environmentally sustainable waste management solutions.

In addition to these high-temperature incinerators, Veolia also owns 49 transport and transfer platforms in 29 states as well as significant capacities for the recycling of liquid hazardous waste and electronic waste.