Arcwood makes major investments amid national growth strategy

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One twelvemonth since its rebrand, Arcwood Environmental has invested millions successful increasing its portfolio, expanding capabilities successful its existing facilities and mounting the institution up to beryllium a nationalist subordinate successful peculiar discarded and biology services, CEO HP Nanda told Waste Dive.

“A batch of concern has genuinely gone successful in the past 12 months,” Nanda said. “We person been ace engaged hiring people, gathering our civilization and doing acquisitions and integrating them and bring them arsenic portion of the Arcwood team.”

The institution has been connected a important maturation trajectory since EQT Infrastructure acquired a bulk involvement successful Arcwood, which was past known arsenic Heritage Environmental Services, successful 2024. Nanda was brought successful soon aft arsenic CEO, and since past helium said the caller enactment has helped redefine the imaginativeness of the company.

In 2025, the institution invested astir $80 cardinal successful superior improvements, 4 times its humanities average, according to Nanda. And it besides added 400 to 500 employees done some integrated maturation and acquisitions, reaching a headcount of astir 2,000 employees crossed 38 facilities.

In January, Arcwood announced its acquisition of Virginia-based MXI Environmental Services, its 3rd woody successful six months. Nanda said the companies person been integrated alongside upgrades to the company's backend systems. This has allowed Arcwood to further onboard capabilities similar household hazardous discarded services to its broader business.

While the institution is increasing done acquisitions, Nanda besides sees the accidental to code caller discarded streams from rising concern activities successful the U.S. related to manufacturing onshoring and artificial quality arsenic well.

In the adjacent term, the emergence of semaglutide injectables successful peculiar has created a caller liquid hazardous discarded watercourse from manufacturers that Arcwood has positioned itself to negociate and incinerate.

“I deliberation that marketplace is truly going to grow tremendously, and they volition beryllium producing a batch of hazardous waste,” Nanda said.

The institution besides sees an emerging accidental to code PFAS-contaminated materials. When the U.S. Department of Defense lifted its moratorium connected incineration of specified materials, it opened up the anticipation that Arcwood could destruct them astatine its existing facilities.

Arcwood is present moving connected a afloat suite of solutions for customers that request to dispose of PFAS-containing materials, Nanda said. That includes the company's landfill successful Roachdale, Indiana, wherever Arcwood is exploring closed-loop leachate attraction systems.