General Environmental Management, Inc. (GEVI.OB)

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General Environmental Management, Inc. is an integrated environmental service firm that provides field services, remediation, transportation, EHS compliance services, on-site technical services and off-site treatment. The company enables enterprises in the Western United States to meet regulatory requirements for the disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes.

GEM currently operates eight field service locations and one treatment, storage, disposal facility (TSDF) servicing all markets in the Western United States. The company’s clients include utility, chemical, petroleum, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, transportation, and industrial firms, as well as educational institutions, environmental service companies, and government agencies.

The company’s integrated environmental services are all monitored and managed through its enterprise software, GEMWare, for the tracking of all activities from the managing, handling, packaging, and transportation of waste to final recycling, treatment or disposal. GEMWare allows customers to monitor remote waste activities from one location, and has been specifically beneficial for the environmental manager responsible for multiple sites.

GEM’s primary focus is on finding a reuse or recycle option for their clients to reduce the amount of waste in our environment. The company utilizes the best innovations, technology, facilities, logistics, personnel and information systems to offer unrivaled environmental services, while helping clients determine the most appropriate, compliant, and cost effective means for disposing various types of waste.

[protostars]

A great offering of this company:

"GEM is leading the industry with its web-based suite of management tools that provide 24/7 access to the information clients need to better manage their waste. The result is faithful execution of reliable processes, an essential part of every sound environmental management effort."

[rose]

What might be the focus waste that the company deals with? Petrol, nuclear, chem?

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Island Environmental Acquisition Works Well for General Environmental Management Inc. (GEVI.OB)

General Environmental Management Inc. is a fully integrated environmental and waste services company that provides on-site technical services, off-site treatment services, remediation services, and regulatory compliance services. The company offers their suite of services to a wide variety of sectors including government entities, educational institutions and commercial and industrial clients.

General Environmental completed the acquisition of Island Environmental Service Inc., a company which generated $7.7 million in revenue for 2007, in September 2008. Island Environmental is a California-based environmental transporter, which now supports General Environmental’s continued growth throughout the western United States.

The two companies share a common sense approach to customer service and many years of combined experience in the industry. With the addition of Island Environmental, General Environmental has broadened their service capabilities even further which helps them expand their customer base. These added capabilities include Island Environmental’s core competencies in logistics, bulk movement of waste, and storm water management services.

Chairman and CEO of General Environmental, Tim Koziol, emphasized the importance of the acquisition and stated “The company’s acquisition of Island Environmental Services was a key acquisition for the company, providing assets and an entry into certain customer bases that we had previously not serviced. We have successfully acquired, integrated and driven organic growth with all of our acquisitions and expect to the same with Island Environmental Services.”

[protostars]

They fall under both fundamental classifications: hazardous and non-hazardous waste collection and treatment and related services. So they cover almost everything.

[rose]

Thank's for the effort. This Island acq. sounds like a solid move to boost revenue

[mrsfelix06]

Sounds like they really do everything. Any word on them branching out?

[protostars]

Sounds like they are always looking for acquisitions, if that's what you mean.

[rose]

One of those markets alway's needed and profitable

[mrsfelix06]

thanks for the info protostars. Good to hear.

[protostars]

Always needed is right ! Imagine if garbage service stopped for 3 months !

[rose]

Although Waste Management inc. might have issues in this regard talk to a resident in one of Italy's major cities about waste not being dealt with

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General Environmental Management, Inc. (GEVI.OB) Has GEMWare

General Environmental Management Inc., a growing waste management solution provider based in California, has a lot of things going for it. The waste management market tends to be relatively stable in any economic environment, and they have the expertise and technology to deal with almost any type of waste handling issue, including hazardous materials processing. They also have a management team with skills well beyond just the waste management industry.

But one of GEM’s strongest assets is GEMWare, its industry-leading web-based information management system. GEMWare is designed to give companies the speed and flexibility necessary to enable generators of all sizes to control hazardous materials, waste management, and disposal activities, in the most efficient way possible. It streamlines and optimizes virtually every aspect of waste processing.

• Storage area organization
• Inventory management
• Waste stream profiling and disposal approvals
• Materials and services request and purchase
• Shipment scheduling
• Advanced reporting

GEMWare also provides instant access to comprehensive, up-to-date information in a variety of areas, including environmental regulatory compliance guidelines, disposal site capabilities, waste stream histories, and shipment transaction activity. In addition, it allows customers to monitor multiple remote waste processing activities from one location. From any computer, customers can access data associated with their waste shipments, including profiles, approvals, service schedules, pricing, and more.

Another important aspect of GEMWare is the associated online Environmental Management Resources Center, which allows access to a wide range of related industrial technical data, including the following:

• Online emergency response guide
• Waste minimization guidelines
• Chemical labeling guide
• Periodic table of the elements
• ChemRetriever – An extensive chemical database, with RCRA and DOT classifications
• 101 Table – An online version of the DOT’s 49 CFR 172.01 table of hazardous material shipping names and packaging guidelines
• Regulatory Information – Access to EPA and DOT regulations for hazardous materials and waste, as well as links to state-specific regulatory agencies

[protostars]

The above describes their differentiating factor.

"its industry-leading web-based information management system"

[mrsfelix06]

Sounds like they thought of everything when it comes to the online center. I think that its also good, and interested that they deal with all sizes of hazardous materials.

[protostars]

I don't know if there are some types of hazardous materials they are not set up to handle, such as nuclear waste, but they do almost everything.

[mrsfelix06]

Ok, good point how about medical waste?

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General Environmental Management, Inc. (GEVI.OB): A Lot of Garbage

They say that you never really appreciate something until it’s gone. When it comes to garbage pickup, could anything be more true? Take labor strikes for example. It’s not unusual for a labor strike to last for months, sometimes longer. Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing, part of Hexagon AB, supposedly holds the American record, with a strike lasting over 10 years. Now think to yourself, what’s the longest you’ve ever heard of a garbage strike lasting? The City of Toronto recently settled an especially lengthy garbage strike. Garbage piled up on the streets all over town, forcing the city to turn parks and arenas into temporary mass dumps. Eventually summer camps, libraries, and even swimming pools were shut down, as citizens tried to deal with the stench and potential health threats. The situation finally became unbearable, and a settlement was worked out. The entire episode lasted a grand total of only 36 days. Garbage strikes never last very long.

The moral is clear: garbage is a big deal. People can go a long time without the fruits of this or that industry, but they’ve got to have something for their garbage. And the volumes we’re talking about are indeed staggering. Each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, America alone produces enough garbage to cover the state of Texas two and a half times (if you’d like to know, that’s a total of over ½ million square miles). It turns out that much of that garbage is simply paper packaging material, much of which can be recycled, and the move is on in communities all over the country to do just that.

Of course, whether it’s land-filled or recycled, someone has to be there to pick it up, haul it away, treat it (both hazardous and non-hazardous), and ultimately dispose of it. And that’s where the waste handling industry comes in, all those people that you don’t ever want to go on strike. These days the handling of waste goes far beyond two guys in a truck. According to First Research (a division of Hoover’s Inc.), the private waste management industry in the U.S. includes 15,000 companies, with total revenues of $80 billion, and it covers an increasingly complex mixture of chemical and biological waste products along with all those cardboard boxes and tin cans. In addition to physical pickup and processing, associated industries are developing, dedicated to things like specialized site cleanup, and environmental consulting and engineering.

Publicly traded waste processing companies include the following:

• American Ecology Corporation (NASDAQ: ECOL), through its subsidiary US Ecology, serves industrial, medical, academic, and government clients across the country. Its focus is hazardous, toxic, and radioactive waste, with major processing sites in Nevada, Idaho, and Texas.
• Ecology & Environment, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEI) is a major environmental consulting, testing, and design firm, with offices throughout the U.S. and the world.
• BWI Holdings (OTCBB: BWIH), out of Canada, is a growing full service waste handling and recycling company dealing in solid and liquid waste, water hauling, and septic services for commercial, industrial, and residential clients.

As in many industries, technology is beginning to change things. General Environmental Management, Inc. (OTCBB: GEVI) is a unique waste management and environmental services provider that offers an innovative Web-based enterprise software system for designing customized waste management and transportation solutions. The system, called GEMWare, provides on-site waste treatment system management, and is now the industry’s leading information management system. Among other things, the company intends to use its proprietary software technologies to ease the integration of its own acquisitions. Its technology-based growth strategy is aimed at what it sees as a huge and ever growing market worth billions. I guess you could say that’s a lot of garbage.

[rose]

Some areas are just needed and very profitable

[protostars]

They don't specifically mention medical waste, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was part of their offering mix.