Gator Environmental & Rentals Inc., a Port Allen-based container cleaning company, has been acquired by Tampa, Florida-based QualaWash Holdings for an undisclosed price.
Gator will continue to operate under its current management team, including vice president of operations and co-founder Jeff Burnett, who has overseen the company for more than a decade.
“The Gator team is excited to join Quala and believes Quala’s facilities and broad capabilities provide opportunities to expand customer relationships and attract new customers in our current markets as well as new geographies,” Burnett says in a prepared statement.
Gator serves a diverse customer base across a range of industries, including chemicals, midstream oil and gas, and downstream oil and gas. Gator will continue to operate under its own brands, but will now leverage in-house Quala waste water treatment capabilities in both existing and new markets.
Gator is the ninth firm Quala has acquired since 2012, expanding the company’s footprint to more than 60 locations across the U.S. CEO Mike Bauer says in a prepared statement that the latest acquisition “represents a significant move forward in our strategy to expand Quala’s service lines and leverage our national network of tank wash and waste water disposal facilities.”
In addition to the company’s headquarters at 5227 N. River Road in Port Allen, Gator has an office in New Iberia, according to its website.
