Stablex Canada

What Stablex Canada does

Stablex Canada is a privately held industrial services company headquartered in Blainville, Quebec, that provides hazardous waste and contaminated soil disposal and treatment services across North America. Founded in 1983, the firm operates with between 101 and 250 employees and positions itself as a service provider to industrial generators, environmental remediation contractors, and other parties requiring permitted handling of contaminated materials.

The company's core offering is the physical treatment and disposal of hazardous waste streams and contaminated soil, an activity governed by extensive environmental permitting. Based on the limited public information available, the firm relies on permitted treatment and containment infrastructure rather than a packaged technology stack; no proprietary software, product line, or recurring software revenue model is disclosed. Stablex maintains a public corporate website at stablex.com.

From a business model perspective, Stablex generates revenue through service fees associated with waste intake, treatment processing, and final disposal, which is the standard revenue mechanic for permitted disposal operators. The firm received institutional capital from private equity investor Novacap, documented as a 1986 funding event in the available records. The geographic reach is described as North American, although the only confirmed location is the Blainville headquarters. The input data does not disclose specific customers, named contracts, pricing schedules, or formal distribution partnerships.

Name

Stablex Canada

Website

https://stablex.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Stablex Canada is a private hazardous waste and contaminated soil disposal and treatment services provider, headquartered in Blainville, Quebec, serving North American industrial and environmental remediation customers. Founded in 1983, the firm operates permitted treatment and disposal infrastructure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hazardous Waste Management Services

NAICS

Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211), Waste Treatment and Disposal (56221), Hazardous Waste Collection (562112), Remediation and Other Waste Management Services (5629)

SIC

Hazardous Waste Management (4955), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Hazardous Waste Landfill & Secure Disposal (RCRA Subtitle C) (BPALAFAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hazardous Waste Storage & TSDF Operations (Permitted Storage, Container/Yard Management) (BPALAFAE), Secure/Special Waste Disposal (Industrial, Contaminated Soils, Low-Level Radioactive/NORM) (BPALACAG), Chemical Hazardous Waste Collection & Transportation (BPALAHAA), Hazardous Waste Storage & Consolidation Facilities (RCRA/TSDF Staging) (TLALAHAK)

Keywords

• Hazardous waste disposal
• Contaminated soil treatment
• Waste stabilization services
• Industrial waste management
• Soil remediation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Blainville

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Stablex Canada is a hazardous waste and contaminated soil disposal and treatment service provider operating a treatment facility in Blainville, Quebec. The company accepts industrial hazardous waste streams and contaminated soils from generators across North America and processes them through stabilization and disposal operations. Its services target industrial clients needing compliant, permitted handling of regulated waste materials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hazardous Waste Disposal and Treatment Services Treatment, stabilization, and disposal of hazardous waste streams at the Blainville, Canada facility. Targeted at industrial waste generators, manufacturers, mining operators, and environmental remediation contractors needing permitted handling of regulated hazardous waste.
• Contaminated Soil Treatment Services Treatment and disposal of contaminated soils delivered to the Blainville facility. Serves environmental remediation projects and brownfield redevelopment efforts requiring compliant soil handling at scale.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• GFL Environmental Services: GFL Environmental is one of Canada's largest diversified environmental services companies offering solid and hazardous waste collection, treatment, and disposal. Its Canadian footprint and integrated service lines make it a direct national comparable to Stablex.
• Republic Services: Republic Services is a major North American environmental services company that, through its US Ecology acquisition, operates hazardous waste landfills, treatment, and disposal capacity directly comparable to Stablex's offerings.
• Clean Harbors: Clean Harbors is the largest North American provider of hazardous waste disposal, treatment, and environmental services. It operates a network of TSDFs, incinerators, and landfills serving the same industrial generators and contaminated-soil customers as Stablex.
• Veolia Environmental Services (North America): Veolia operates hazardous waste treatment, stabilization, and disposal facilities across North America, including contaminated-soil management services that directly overlap with Stablex's core offering.
• Waste Connections: Waste Connections is a major North American solid and hazardous waste services provider with disposal capacity in many U.S. states and Canadian provinces. Its E&P and industrial waste segments overlap directly with Stablex's hazardous waste and contaminated-soil disposal activities.

Emerging players

• Montrose Environmental Group: Montrose provides environmental testing, advisory, and remediation services across North America, frequently interfacing with hazardous waste TSDFs like Stablex for final disposal of contaminated soils. It is a partial-overlap comparable rather than a direct disposal competitor.
• Triumvirate Environmental: Triumvirate Environmental is a North American hazardous waste management company offering collection, transportation, and disposal services to industrial and laboratory generators. It is comparable to Stablex as a mid-sized hazardous waste services provider.
• Stericycle: Stericycle provides regulated waste management including hazardous waste services across North America. While its core focus has historically been medical waste, its broader hazardous and industrial waste offerings overlap with Stablex's customer base.

Direct peers

• Heritage Environmental Services: Heritage Environmental Services is a North American hazardous waste management company specializing in treatment, recycling, and disposal of industrial wastes including contaminated soils — closely comparable in scale and service mix to Stablex.
• Tervita Corporation: Tervita (formed from the merger of Newalta and Tervita) is a Canadian-headquartered provider of waste treatment, recycling, and disposal services, including secure landfill capacity for industrial and contaminated-soil waste, making it a close direct peer to Stablex.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stablex

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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