VLS Recovery acquires Pacific Treatment Environmental Services

VLS Recovery, a Houston-based provider of waste management, rail car cleaning, and barge cleaning and repair services, announced Feb. 2 that it has acquired Pacific Trans Environmental Services Inc. and Pacific Treatment Environmental Services (PTES). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Based in El Cajon, California, PTES provides waste management, industrial services and other environmental services to customers in California, while the PTES location in Tijuana, Mexico, provides storage and transfer services to customers in Mexico. As part of the transaction, the PTES business will operate within the VLS Waste division. Al Montero, president of PTES, will run the Mexican business, and Michael Jeffries, vice president of PTES, will run the West Coast business.

“PTES shares our commitment to providing industry-leading services to customers and is a perfect fit for our expansion and acquisition strategy. We look forward to welcoming the team to our organization,” VLS CEO John Magee says.

"The acquisition of PTES allows us to significantly expand our waste business on the West Coast and into Mexico. With PTES’ outstanding service reputation and the ability to provide our customers there with local services, we are excited about the future of our waste business,” Ken Hines, vice president of Waste Services at VLS, says.

"We are thrilled to become part of VLS, which has quickly become a North American leader in our industry," Montero says. "With access to their operational expertise and geographic reach, we will be able to better serve our customers and further expand our reach on the West Coast and in Mexico. On behalf of the entire team at PTES, we look forward to working with John and the rest of the VLS team."

This acquisition marks VLS’s sixth add-on acquisition since being acquired by Los Angeles-based Aurora Capital Partners in October 2017.