Clover Environmental Solutions

What Clover Environmental Solutions does

Clover Environmental Solutions, LLC is a privately held US company founded in 1996 and headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois (with global headquarters at 4200 Columbus Street, Ottawa, IL). It operates two strategic divisions: Sustainable Imaging Supplies, which provides remanufactured cartridges and eco-friendly printing solutions, and Returns Management Solutions (formerly America's Remanufacturing Company, acquired in June 2023 and rebranded in January 2025), which delivers end-to-end returns processing, remanufacturing, recommerce, and remarketing services. The company serves enterprise customers across North America, including OEMs, distributors, and retailers, with operations also spanning Canada through cloverenvironmental.ca.

The company's core technology is a returns management and remanufacturing platform featuring patented automation technology and integrated logistics and distribution infrastructure. Reported operational metrics include 6.6 million units recommerced and 1.3 million parcels shipped in 2022, and 348 million pounds of waste diverted from landfill since January 2009. Clover describes its offering as an integrated full-service platform that combines returns processing, inspection, grading, remanufacturing, and remarketing under one operational umbrella.

Clover generates revenue through professional services for returns management and remanufacturing, hardware sales of sustainable imaging supplies, and transaction-based revenue from remarketing recommerced units. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, reflecting an enterprise sales motion targeting OEMs, distributors, and retailers across North America. The company is structured as a private LLC with no disclosed parent, investor, or funding history, and has grown primarily through operational scale and the ARC acquisition rather than external capital.

Name

Clover Environmental Solutions

Legal name

Clover Environmental Solutions, LLC

Website

https://cloverenvironmentalsolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Clover Environmental Solutions is a privately held US firm founded in 1996 that delivers returns management, remanufacturing, and recommerce services to OEMs, distributors, and retailers across North America through two divisions: Sustainable Imaging Supplies and Returns Management Solutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Returns Management & Remanufacturing Services

NAICS

Waste Management and Remediation Services (562)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Packaging Recovery & Closed-Loop Programs (Take-Back, Deposit-Return, EPR Support) (IMALAMAF)

Keywords

• Returns management services
• Product remanufacturing
• Recommerce solutions
• Sustainable imaging supplies
• Asset recovery services

Headquarters

HQ city

Hoffman Estates

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Returns Management Services: End-to-end returns management solutions including processing, inspection, sorting, and disposition of returned goods for OEMs, distributors, and retailers.
2. Remanufacturing Services: Remanufacturing and refurbishment of returned business and consumer goods, extending product lifecycle and recovering value through recommerce.
3. Sustainable Imaging Supplies: Sale of sustainable imaging supplies as part of the Sustainable Imaging Supplies division.
4. Remarketing/Recommerce: Remarketing of recommerced units, recovering value from returned goods through resale channels.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Clover Environmental Solutions provides end-to-end returns management, remanufacturing, and recommerce/remarketing services for business and consumer goods. Operating through two strategic divisions—Sustainable Imaging Supplies and Returns Management Solutions—the company processes, inspects, sorts, refurbishes, and resells returned products on behalf of OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Its integrated platform combines patented automation, logistics, and distribution infrastructure to recover value from returned goods and reduce landfill waste.

Product overview

Clover Environmental Solutions operates as a unified platform with two strategic divisions: Sustainable Imaging Supplies and Returns Management Solutions. The company is a leader in the recovery, returns management, remanufacturing, and remarketing of business and consumer goods. The platform leverages world-class technology, returns management capabilities, manufacturing, and distribution infrastructure to enable companies to become more agile, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable. In 2023, the company acquired America's Remanufacturing Company (ARC), which was subsequently rebranded as Clover Returns Management Solutions in January 2025.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sustainable Imaging Supplies: Division focused on sustainable imaging supplies and replacement manufacturing solutions.
• Returns Management Solutions

Products and services

• Returns Management Services End-to-end returns management solutions including processing, inspection, sorting, and disposition of returned business and consumer goods for OEMs, distributors, and retailers across North America.
• Remanufacturing Services Remanufacturing and refurbishment of returned business and consumer goods, extending product lifecycle and recovering value through recommerce for enterprise clients.
• Remarketing / Recommerce Resale and remarketing of recommerced units through dedicated channels, recovering value from returned goods for OEMs, distributors, and retailers.
• Sustainable Imaging Supplies Sale of sustainable imaging supplies, including remanufactured cartridges and eco-friendly printing solutions, marketed under the Clover Imaging brand for U.S. and Canadian customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 348 million pounds of waste diverted from landfill since January 2009
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• America's Remanufacturing Company (ARC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2023Clover Environmental Solutions acquired America's Remanufacturing Company (ARC), a returns management and remanufacturing firm with 21 years of expertise. The acquisition enhances Clover's end-to-end returns management and recommerce solutions across North America, adding significant capabilities to serve OEMs, distributors, and retailers.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Optoro: Optoro is a returns-management and recommerce technology platform that helps retailers and brands process, grade, and resell returned and excess inventory. It is a direct competitor to Clover's Returns Management Solutions division, serving the same OEM/distributor/retailer customer base with technology-led returns optimization.
• Happy Returns: Happy Returns (owned by PayPal) provides box-free returns and reverse-logistics software for retail and DTC brands. It competes with Clover in the returns management workflow, though its focus is more on consumer-facing return experiences than enterprise-scale remanufacturing and remarketing.
• Liquidity Services: Liquidity Services operates online marketplaces and reverse-logistics programs for returned, surplus, and salvage merchandise across retail, industrial, and government clients. It directly competes with Clover in returns processing, asset recovery, and remarketing of business and consumer goods.
• Reverse Logistics Group: Reverse Logistics Group provides outsourced returns management, repair, refurbishment, and remarketing services to OEMs and retailers across multiple geographies. It overlaps directly with Clover's returns management and remanufacturing value proposition for enterprise clients.
• Clover Imaging Group (division): Clover Imaging Group is Clover Environmental Solutions' own Sustainable Imaging Supplies division, competing in the remanufactured printer cartridge market against LD Products, 1ink.com, and other third-party imaging supplies providers. Included as a reference peer for the imaging supplies leg of the business.

Emerging players

• ReturnGO: ReturnGO is a returns management and reverse-logistics SaaS platform for ecommerce merchants and 3PLs, focused on automation, exchanges, and analytics. It competes with Clover's technology layer for enterprise returns workflows, though it does not run physical remanufacturing operations.

Broad incumbents

• FedEx Supply Chain: FedEx Supply Chain Solutions offers warehousing, distribution, and reverse-logistics services as part of its global parcel and logistics network. It competes with Clover at the enterprise level, particularly for retailers and OEMs seeking returns management bundled with transportation.
• XPO Logistics: XPO Logistics is a large North American less-than-truckload and contract-logistics provider that also offers supply chain and reverse-logistics services. It overlaps with Clover as a broader incumbent in enterprise returns and reverse-logistics solutions.
• GXO Logistics: GXO Logistics is a major contract-logistics provider offering warehousing, fulfillment, and reverse-logistics services to enterprise retailers and brands. It is a broader incumbent that bundles returns management into larger 3PL contracts, competing with Clover for enterprise customers needing integrated returns.
• UPS Supply Chain Solutions: UPS Supply Chain Solutions provides logistics, distribution, and returns management services globally, leveraging UPS's parcel network for reverse logistics. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same OEM and enterprise retail returns contracts that Clover targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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