Safety-Kleen Systems
What: Sells industrial cleaning products and handles waste liquid materials
Where: Moving from Sharonville to 4120 Thunderbird Lane, Fairfield
Phone: (513) 563-0931
Ohio Area Manager: Richard Goodwin
Website: www.safety-kleen.com
Safety-Kleen Systems is moving its regional field office from Sharonville to Fairfield where it is building a facility at 4120 Thunderbird Lane.
Safety-Kleen sells industrial cleaning products. It also picks up, distributes and recycles waste liquid material, such as used oil, windshield wiper fluid, machine part cleaner and paint. Construction of its 12,000-square-foot facility started in June, said Richard Goodwin, Ohio area manager.
The new location will open the first of the year, moving approximately 25 jobs to the city that will generate income taxes of an estimated $11,250 a year, he said. The company’s Fairfield site will pick up materials in tanker trucks, consolidate materials into one tank and ship it.
“We’re kind of outgrowing the Sharonville facility,” Goodwin said.
In Sharonville, Safety-Kleen has two buildings where it’s been located approximately 15 years. By building the new site, Goodwin said everything will be in one location and there will be room to expand.
“I think there’s been a larger emphasis on being environmentally green and that is something our organization has done for 45 years,” he said. “I think there’s been a larger demand in the marketplace for companies like Safety-Kleen that could provide a green alternative.”
Safety-Kleen is a national company based in Texas and is the largest re-refiner of used oil in North America.
The company was founded in the 1950s on the invention of a parts washing machine, according to its website. The company went on to specialize in waste management.
Now the biggest part of its business is recycling oil, picking up waste oil from the local auto repair shop, consolidating it in tanks and transporting it to one of its two oil refineries in Indiana and Canada.
The company is eyeing a refinery location along the Gulf Coast, Goodwin said.
The used oil is sold to customers, including the U.S. government, post offices and the military, as well as for fuel, he said.
The Fairfield location is one of 156 field offices.
Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2551 or clevingston@coxohio.com.
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