Waste Recovery: Spotlight on Electronics Recycling
The BGL Environmental Services Insider is a quarterly newsletter addressing capital markets and mergers & acquisitions activity, financial and operating performance of certain publicly-traded companies, and trends within the environmental services industry.
In this edition, we continue our coverage of waste recovery with a spotlight on electronics recycling, an industry exhibiting strong secular growth driven by increasing volumes, favorable legislation, and green initiatives favoring responsible recycling. We feature an interview with executives at ECS Refining, LLC and private equity partner ZS Fund L.P., who share their insights on opportunities and challenges facing the industry and the company’s growth plans.
Also inside we highlight recent news in oil collections and rerefining, a sector seeing continuing consolidation, evidenced by the announcement of a major acquisition in used oil collections in Q1 ’12.
Client Description
Established in 1980, ECS is one of the nation’s largest full-service recycling and end-of-life services providers for electronics, industrial equipment, and related hazardous waste. ECS’ unique and broad set of capabilities represents a complete “end-to-end” solution for IT and other electronic products (i.e., zero landfilling or overseas processing), spanning precious metals recovery and refining, cathode ray tube (CRT) glass recycling, and asset management, refurbishment, and resale.
Waste Recovery and Used Oil Market Update
Given the high level of transaction activity taking place within environmental services and progressive changes within the used oil and rerefining market, we wanted to ensure a new issue of the Insider was distributed prior to year end.
This latest ES Insider features a BGL perspective on waste recovery, noting certain themes underpinning growth in major environmental services subsectors. In our continuing coverage of used oil collections and rerefining, industry executives share their views on how the value chain is advancing, with participants seeking partnerships to secure a competitive advantage as the industry undergoes a rapid evolution. Developments in the used oil marketplace provide further evidence of the increasing focus on value recovery that is taking place both within the broader waste industry and the liquid waste market.
Private Equity Roundtable and Used Oil Market Update
The BGL Environmental Services Insider is a quarterly newsletter addressing capital markets and mergers & acquisitions activity, financial and operating performance of certain publicly-traded companies, and trends within the environmental services industry.
The Q2 2011 Insider features a roundtable discussion with a group of private equity sponsors that have experience investing and specialization in the environmental services sector. Participants share insights on investing, addressing sector opportunities, M&A, and the state of the financing markets.
This Q2 2011 report also provides a market update on used oil collections and re-refining, sharing insights from industry participants regarding recent developments since our sector spotlight in our April Insider.
The BGL Environmental Services Insider is a quarterly newsletter addressing capital markets and mergers & acquisitions activity, financial and operating performance of certain publicly-traded companies, and trends and issues affecting the environmental services industry.
The Q1 2011 Insider features a spotlight on Oil Collections & Re-refining, an industry nearing an inflection point in terms of both growth and consolidation. Growing environmental awareness, coupled with the rising cost of oil, have focused attention on all forms of responsible used oil recycling, underscoring its value in use for energy recovery and re-refining, setting the stage for increased private and public investment in the coming years.
The BGL Environmental Services Insider is a quarterly newsletter discussing key trends and issues affecting the industry, as well as recent mergers & acquisitions activity, and the recent performance of publicly-traded companies. This edition includes a sector spotlight on the Medical Waste market.
The BGL Environmental Services Insider is a quarterly newsletter discussing key trends and issues affecting the industry, as well as recent mergers & acquisitions activity, and the recent performance of publicly-traded companies.
Client Description
Weinberg & Bell is a Cleveland-based buyout group, founded in 2003 by Daniel Bell and Ronald Weinberg, Jr. It is an outgrowth of Weinberg Capital, started by Ronald E. Weinberg, the Chairman of Hawk Corporation, who remains an investor in Weinberg & Bell. WBG is comprised of principals with hands on experience managing and building companies to maximize growth and increase shareholder value. Through its principals, WBG has a long and successful record of acquiring, operating and exiting businesses.
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Syron is a world leading provider of transfer automation tooling solutions that optimize the efficiency of high volume metal stamping presses utilized by automobile manufacturers and their Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers. IMI plc (IMI LN)is a diversified industrial engineering solutions business whose Norgren subsidiary provides global automobile manufacturers with “end-of-arm” tooling products and services that are complementary to Syron’s transfer automation tooling products and services.
Client Description
Oglebay Norton Company, a Cleveland, Ohio-based company, provides essential aggregates and minerals to a broad range of markets, from building materials and home improvement to the environmental, energy and metallurgical industries.
