Company: CLH
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000822818-25-000007
Chunk: 128

Company: CLEAN HARBORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 128
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 dealers, metal fabricators, machine manufacturers, fleet maintenance shops and other automotive, industrial and retail customers. We collect and transport hazardous and non-hazardous containerized waste for recycling or disposal, primarily through the Clean Harbors’ network of recycling, treatment and disposal facilities. As the largest provider of parts cleaning services in North America, we offer a complete line of specially designed parts washers to customer locations and then deliver recurring service that includes machine cleaning and maintenance and disposal and replenishment of clean solvent or aqueous fluids. Our vacuum services remove solids, residual oily water and 

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sludge and other fluids from customers' oil/water separators, sumps and collection tanks. We also remove and collect waste fluids found at large and small industrial locations, including metal fabricators, auto maintenance providers and general manufacturers.

Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions

Our Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions business offerings span the life-cycle of lubricants and other sustainable automotive products. These operations center around our re-refineries located in East Chicago, Indiana; Breslau, Ontario; Fallon, Nevada; Kingsland, Georgia; Tacoma, Washington; Wichita, Kansas; Rollinsford, New Hampshire and Sanford, North Carolina. As noted above, our Newark, California re-refinery, is currently idled. 

Using our nationwide fleet of trucks, tankers, rail-cars and barges, our teams collect used oil from thousands of customers which serves as feedstock for our oil re-refineries. In 2024, we collected 253 million gallons of used oil. Our state-of-the-art processes allow us to realize oil’s potential to be recycled and reused. We process the used oil into a variety of products, mostly base oils, including Group III base oils in 2024, and blended lubricating oils. Our Performance Plus® family of automotive and industrial lubricants are sold to on- and off-road corporate fleets, government entities, automotive service shops and industrial plants for hydraulic components, motors, pumps and valves. Our anti-wear hydraulic oils and lubricants provide extended operating life, protection from corrosion and abrasion and improved cleanliness. We also sell unbranded blended oils to distributors that resell them under their private label brands. These high-quality lubricants provide our customers with a sustainable solution to their oil demands.

The used oil can also be processed into recycled fuel oil, or “RFO,” which is then sold to customers such as asphalt plants, industrial plants, pulp and paper companies or into vacuum gas oil “VGO”