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DECEMBER, 1972 REFUSE NEWS PAGE NIN Mergers. . . States today is being generated at In addition to refuse disposal least eight additional companies, Spokesmen for the public (Cont.from Page 1) the rate of 360 million tons a year. and solid waste management in both northern and southern companies predict that a m "When we formed Carson And the tonnage is growing at the operations, BFI also is in the California. maximuof 50 per.cent of the rate of 7 per cent a year. heavy equipment business and In addition to refuse dispoial, independent c o m p a n i e s Refuse Company some years Recycling and recovery of industrial cleaning. SCA also is involved in bidding operating in California may come ago," Prather says,"we brought useable products from all that SCA Services, Inc., is the maintenance services, security into association, through together several small com- waste tonnage is becoming and second largest of the big three.It guard services, and related acquisition or merger,with large panies to gain the advantage of probably will be a major industry is headquartered in Boston, has services. public corporations within the larger capitalization and better in the future, adding to the done most of its business in the The third of the big three is next five years. management. The trend was growth potential for the far- East, Northeast, and Southeast, Waste Management, _ Inc., But at the present time, the' already apparent then.The entry sighted companies. headquartered in Oak Brook M. of large public comapnies into g p prior to entering the California q � activity — the seeking of com- The three major giants in the market, and is expected to top near Chicago. Most of its panies interested in selling or; California was only a matter of industry are: $100 million in revenue this year. operations have been in the merging, the negotiations, the time. Browning-Ferris Industries SCA's local acquisitions thus Midwest and Southeast areas of offers and counter offers — is "To survive as a private in- Inc., headquartered in Houston, far have included Orange County the country prior to moving into what is at the heart of all the dustry, we need the kind of Texas,with gross revenues near areas, operating as SCA of California.Estimates of its gross conversation in the industry. capitalization, modernization, $155 million this year is the revenue will be near $70 million and managerial expertise that y Orange County, in addition What we can predict, we largest of the three majors. Its SCA's local acquisitions thus this year. believe, based on our REFUSE only a large industrial cor- ' major acquisitions before en- far have included Orange County Thus far WMI has completed NEWS survey,is that at this time poration can provide." tering the California market areas, operating as SCA of only one merger in California, next month, there may be twice - But in addition to the growing earlier this year were in the Orange County, in addition to but that was a big >W* — as many acquisitons and mergers need in the industry for greater midwest, south, and southwest. System Disposal. It is "in the Universal By-Products -Com- completed as there has been to capitalization, modernized BFI's first major acquisition in process of closing deals" with at pany. date. • - ' techniques and top managerial California was its merger with talent that is beyond the reach of Carson Refuse Company. More many of the smaller in- recently it merged with ABCO,