Deffenbaugh Industries

Name

Deffenbaugh Industries

Legal name

Deffenbaugh Industries

Website

https://deffenbaughinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Deffenbaugh Industries is a Kansas City-based waste management and disposal company established in 1957. Its operations have been integrated under Waste Management, providing waste disposal and collection solutions to commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States. The company's website domain now redirects to the Waste Management maintenance page.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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Broad incumbents

• Clean Harbors: Largest North American provider of environmental and industrial waste services, including hazardous waste handling; relevant as an adjacent incumbent competing for some of the same industrial and special waste streams.
• Waste Management: Acquiring strategic and the largest North American solid waste and environmental services company; directly comparable because Deffenbaugh's routes, transfer stations, and landfill assets now sit inside WM's national network.
• Waste Connections: Major North American solid waste consolidator pursuing a similar strategy of acquiring regional haulers and landfill assets; directly comparable business model and acquisition profile to Deffenbaugh's situation pre-WM.
• GFL Environmental: Large North American diversified environmental services company with solid waste, soil, and liquid waste operations; relevant as a peer that grew largely through acquisitions of regional haulers similar to Deffenbaugh.

Emerging players

• Stericycle: Specialized regulated waste management provider (medical waste, secure information destruction); partially comparable given Deffenbaugh's broader regulated and non-regulated waste handling scope.

Direct peers

• Rumpke Consolidated Companies: Family-owned regional solid waste hauler and landfill operator serving the Midwest; a close analogue to Deffenbaugh's regional collection-plus-disposal model and customer base.
• Advanced Disposal Services: Regional solid waste hauler that was acquired by Waste Management in 2020; a near-perfect functional comparable given its scale, municipal/customer mix, and eventual strategic exit profile.
• Republic Services: Second-largest U.S. solid waste hauler with collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal operations; a direct competitor to Deffenbaugh in regional MSW markets and the natural benchmark for valuation when regional haulers transact.
• Casella Waste Systems: Regional solid waste, recycling, and resource management operator in the Northeast U.S.; comparable as a vertically integrated regional hauler with the same customer mix and route density economics as Deffenbaugh.

Regional players

• FCC Environmental Services: Solid waste and environmental services provider; comparable as an industry consolidator whose profile mirrors regional players like Deffenbaugh before they were absorbed by larger strategics.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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