Clean Harbors Acquires Safety-Kleen's Chemical Services Division

Date: February 21, 2002

Source: News Room

Clean Harbors, Inc. (Nasdaq: CLHB) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Chemical Services Division of Safety-Kleen Corp. Under terms of the agreement, Clean Harbors will purchase the division from Safety-Kleen for $46.3 million in cash and will assume certain environmental liabilities valued at approximately $265 million. Clean Harbors expects to generate in excess of $100 million of EBITDA during the first full year after the merger. The combined company is expected to have annualized revenue of approximately $750 million, as well as approximately 4,400 employees and 38,000 customers including a vast majority of the Fortune 500. Safety-Kleen Corp. is currently under Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, which it entered voluntarily along with 73 of its U.S. subsidiaries, in June 2000. Clean Harbors expects the transaction to close during the third quarter of 2002.

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