Talher

What Talher does

Talher is a Madrid-based Spanish environmental services company and a subsidiary of Clece, operating across four principal lines: urban services (street cleaning, waste collection, gardening and maintenance), forestry services (reforestation and wildfire suppression), environmental education, and cultural tourism management. The company maintains a multi-regional operational footprint in Spain and serves primarily public-sector clients — municipalities, regional governments, and educational/cultural institutions — alongside selected enterprise accounts.

The company's go-to-market is built on long-duration public tenders; it holds ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 50001, and 20400 certifications and EMAS registration, which function as de facto procurement prerequisites. In April 2025, Talher extended its service stack into technology with a solar-powered, mobile-network-independent wildfire early-detection sensor system developed in partnership with STIHL, and has since scaled active wildfire-response capacity to 105 personnel operating three ELIF units. It has also entered sustainable-forestry and carbon-offset activities through its parent Clece.

Talher monetizes primarily through multi-year municipal and regional government service contracts, supplemented by enterprise contracts (e.g., Endesa, Banco Santander, IESE) and emerging circular-economy partnerships such as the Ecoembes environmental-education collaboration. Revenue mechanics are labor- and operations-heavy, with limited disclosed financial detail; the technology layer is the most strategically meaningful deviation from the traditional services model.

Name

Talher

Legal name

Talher, S.A.

Website

https://talher.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Talher is a Madrid-based Spanish environmental services subsidiary of Clece, providing urban services, forestry, wildfire suppression, environmental education, and cultural tourism management primarily to municipal and regional government clients across Spain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (115310)

SIC

Forestry (800), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Wildfire Risk Assessment, Prevention & Suppression Services (IMAMAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fire Detection & Early Warning (Lookouts, Sensors, Aerial Patrol) (AFAMAEAG), Wildfire Suppression & Incident Response (AFAMAEAE), Integrated Forest Health & Fire Management Planning (AFAMAEAK), Wildfire Fuel Reduction & Prescribed Burning (AFAMAAAF)

Keywords

• Environmental services
• Urban waste management
• Forest firefighting
• Environmental education
• Reforestation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Environmental Services Contracts: Talher generates revenue through long-term service contracts with public administrations (municipalities, regional governments, ministries) and institutional clients. Contracts cover urban services, forestry, environmental education, and cultural tourism management. The nature of services (street cleaning, firefighting brigades, education programs) suggests predominantly recurring contract-based revenue.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Talher provides integrated environmental services to public administrations and institutions across Spain, spanning urban services (street cleaning, solid urban waste collection, gardening), forestry services (wildfire prevention, firefighting brigades, silvicultural treatments, reforestation), environmental education programs (school curricula, teacher training, science communication), and tourism and cultural management (guided tours, museum programs). The company delivers services through multi-year public contracts and deploys proprietary solar-powered wildfire early detection sensor networks.

Product overview

Talher is a sustainability and environmental services company with over 45 years of experience, operating as a unified environmental services provider rather than a modular platform. The company offers four main service lines: Servicios urbanos (urban services including gardening, street cleaning, and waste collection), Servicios forestales (forest services including fire prevention, extinction brigades, and reforestation), Educación ambiental (environmental education programs and facility management), and Gestión turística y cultural (tourism and cultural management). These services are delivered through specialized sub-services such as helitransported fire brigades, sensor-based early fire detection systems, sustainable forest projects, guided tours, museum education programs, and environmental training activities. The portfolio includes specific projects like the fire detection system with 120 sensors in Soria, sustainable forests in Benalmádena and León, and educational programs at major Spanish museums.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Services (Servicios urbanos)

Quantifiable outcome

• Wildfire detection time reduced from 3 hours (cameras/satellites) to under 1 hour using sensor network
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Clece (as project initiator)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025Talher is executing Clece's second sustainable forest project in Santa Colomba de Curueño, León. This follows the first 'Parque Talher Benalmádena' project. Both projects are part of Clece's corporate carbon offset strategy, with Talher executing the forestry operations and MITECO providing project registration and verification.
• Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITECO)minorOthers · 1 May 2025MITECO registers Talher/Clece's sustainable forest carbon offset projects, providing official traceability and external audit verification every five years. Projects qualify for carbon credit tracking under Spain's environmental registry.
• ClececoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2023Talher is a subsidiary (filial) of Clece, a major Spanish facility and environmental services group. Clece provides the parent company's brand, financial backing, and operational framework. Talher represents Clece's specialized environmental services division. Clece's email domain (clece.es) appears in Talher's legal and accessibility communications.
• EcoembesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEcoembes promotes the Naturaliza teacher training program for environmentalizing primary school curricula. Talher delivers the program, having trained approximately 1,000 teachers. Ecoembes also partners on circular economy campaigns such as 'Reciclando por la Victoria' in Valladolid.
• EMAYA (Empresa Municipal d'Aigües i Clavegueram, Palma de Mallorca)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEMAYA, the municipal water and sewage company of Palma de Mallorca, contracts Talher to design and execute environmental education and awareness campaigns on waste management and water consumption for citizens and specific economic sectors.
• Fundación CanalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFundación Canal promotes the Canal Educa environmental education program across the Community of Madrid. Talher designs and delivers the program, reaching more than 40,000 participants annually, maintaining an educational portal, and managing social media with 9,500+ followers.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• STIHL: German outdoor power equipment manufacturer and developer of the wildfire early-detection sensor system deployed by Talher in Soria. Adjacent ecosystem participant and key technology supplier to Talher's primary technology differentiator.
• Ecoembes: Spanish packaging recycling non-profit promoting circular economy and school environmental education programs (e.g., Naturaliza with Talher). Adjacent programmatic partner rather than competitor, but shapes funding availability for Talher's education services.
• Clece (parent): Parent company and major Spanish facility services group of which Talher is a wholly-owned subsidiary. Comparable services group in cleaning, maintenance and environmental services; relevant context for understanding Talher's positioning and capital backing.

Direct peers

• Prezero Iberia: Iberian environmental services business of the Schwarz Group, providing waste collection, urban cleaning, recycling and circular-economy services in Spain and Portugal. Overlapping municipal customer base and waste/circular-economy campaigns use-case (e.g., similar to Talher's Valladolid work).
• Acciona Medio Ambiente: Environmental services business of Acciona, providing urban services, forestry, biodiversity and environmental education to public-sector clients across Spain and internationally. Directly comparable multi-vertical environmental services peer.
• FCC Medio Ambiente: Environmental services arm of FCC Group, providing waste collection, street cleaning, gardening, and forestry services to municipalities across Spain and globally. Closest scale-up peer with overlapping urban services and forest services offerings.
• Eulen Medioambiente: Environmental division of the Eulen Group, providing street cleaning, gardening, waste collection and forest services to Spanish municipalities and enterprises. Directly comparable urban services and forestry portfolio with similar B2B/B2G contract base.
• Valoriza Servicios Medioambientales: Environmental services subsidiary of Sacyr offering gardening, urban cleaning, waste collection and forestry services to Spanish municipalities. Directly comparable service portfolio and target customers (regional governments, city halls).
• Urbaser: Spain-headquartered environmental services group offering urban cleaning, waste collection, forestry and landscape maintenance to municipalities across Europe and Latin America. Directly comparable multi-line environmental services portfolio bidding on the same public tenders as Talher.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia España: Spanish subsidiary of global environmental services giant Veolia, operating waste management, water and urban services across Spain. Serves overlapping public-sector customers with broader portfolio and balance-sheet scale advantages in tenders.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance12 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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