2012 TN Environmental Conference

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SILVER

Allied Waste Services of Tri-Cities offers a full range of waste removal options and equipment to efficiently and economically meet your waste collection needs. We serve residential, commercial, and industrial customers throughout the Tri-Cities area, providing customized non-hazardous solid waste and recycling services. We serve hospitals, apartments, restaurants, manufacturing plants, shopping centers, hotels, schools and other institutions and businesses with waste collection systems utilizing on-site containers. Dumpster types and sizes, as well as frequency of waste removal, are tailored to each customer’s individual needs. Front-end loader, rolloff and compactor systems provide alternatives to meet every trash service need.

B ALDOR ELECTRIC

Mission Statement: To be the best (as determined by our customers) marketers, designers and manufacturers of industrial electric motors, mechanical power transmission products, drives and generators.

From our home office in Fort Smith, Arkansas, we support the sales offices/warehouses that stock Baldor products worldwide, selling to distributors and original equipment manufacturers in more than 70 countries. Baldor products are available from 50 sales offices/warehouses in North America and 26 offices serving international markets. These products are produced at 26 plants in the US, Canada, England, Mexico and China.

Brown and Caldwell

Brown and Caldwell is a full-service environmental engineering and consulting firm with 45 offices and 1,500+ professionals across the country. For more than 60 years, our creative designs and progressive solutions have helped scores of municipal, federal and private agencies successfully overcome their most challenging environmental obstacles. We’ve built a reputation for collaborating with clients, adding value through innovation and building relationships that last.

But we’re also known for our legacy of environmental stewardship that goes back to Dave Caldwell, who, since founding the company in 1947, insisted that BC’s approach to plant design minimize energy use. A true visionary, he pioneered and advocated wastewater reuse long before it was fashionable. Dave’s belief that the needs of society, our clients and the environment can co-exist remains an integral part of our culture and is readily seen in the innovations and advancements of the BC engineers and scientists who have since followed.

G eneral Shale

From a small local brick manufacturer in Tennessee in 1928, we have grown to be a complete masonry supplier for North America. For residential, commercial or institutional projects, only masonry allows you complete design flexibility and the confidence of using the most trusted building material. Our masonry products will stand the test of time in both style and sustainability. You can expect the very best from General Shale.

HEPACO

HEPACO is an emergency response, industrial services, environmental remediation, and homeland security services company. We work with many well-known corporations in the transportation, communication, petroleum, energy, manufacturing, commercial, and institutional industries. Founded in 1984, we have successfully completed more than 26,000 projects.

HEPACO is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with facilities in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Memphis, Blountville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, Tennessee; Norfolk, Richmond, and Fredericksburg, Virginia; Raleigh and Morehead City, North Carolina; Charleston and Greenville, South Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Gloucester City, New Jersey; and Albany, New York.

Littlejohn Engineering Associates

Since its foundation in 1989, Littlejohn Engineering Associates has become distinguished among its peers by the firm’s commitment to service, quality and innovation in the engineering, planning, landscape architectural, surveying, and environmental consulting fields. Over the years, LEA has maintained a solid record of growth, while expanding services in order to serve a growing client base. The firm’s headquarters are located in an award-winning renovated office within the Hillsboro Village district of Nashville. Additionally, LEA has offices in the Tri-Cities, Chattanooga, Decatur, AL, and Orlando, FL.

MINCO

Minco supplies Fused Silica products to markets around the world, particularly for applications including investment casting, fillers, and refractories.

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc (NFS)

NFS is both a strategic asset for America and an economic engine for Northeast Tennessee. With more than 1,000 full-time employees and contract workers, our Erwin, Tennessee operation is committed to manufacturing specialty nuclear materials for the U.S. Navy's nuclear fleet and other customers while protecting its workers, the public and the environment.

Rain for Rent

Rain for Rent is a profit-oriented company committed to providing solutions to our customers' water-handling, irrigation, and temporary liquid storage problems that exceed their expectations for service and quality.

R ockTenn

RockTenn (NYSE: RKT) is one of North America's leading producers of corrugated and consumer packaging and recycling solutions, with annualized net sales of approximately $10 billion. Based in Norcross, GA, we employ approximately 26,000 people and operate more than 245 facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and China.

With a low-cost position in the marketplace, RockTenn commits every day to creating and delivering value with innovation that produces new product ideas, generates revenue gains, improves equipment effectiveness and increases the quality of our work force. A performance-based, data-driven culture also helps us continuously reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.

SOUTHEAST RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Since1996 SRT has operated a facility in Johnson City, Tennessee, for the commercial recycling of mercury-containing lamps (fluorescent, metal halide, high pressure sodium, etc.) and other hazardous post-consumer products. SRT now operates four facilities in Tennessee, one in Kennesaw, GA, and Burlington, NC, which are integrally engaged in such recycling operations.