Clean Harbors tweaks FY25 adjusted EBITDA to $1.16B-$1.18B from $1.16B-$1.2B

“Looking ahead, we believe that the market challenges we faced in the third quarter are temporary and brought on by macro-economic conditions. The continued growth in Technical Services and Safety-Kleen Environmental demonstrates the diversification of our end markets and continued resilience of our business model. We expect our incinerators to continue to run strong through year-end and projects to continue to feed our entire disposal and recycling network,” Gerstenberg said. “The North American economy has been navigating through short-term turbulence, but the economic outlook looks promising as reshoring continues. Based on conversations with our customers, we anticipate incentives to reshore and the benefits of the recent U.S. tax bill will drive a meaningful lift in American manufacturing, as well as continue to support remediation and waste projects. Spending constraints related to key verticals, such as chemicals and refining, should loosen in the coming quarters as economic conditions improve, benefiting our Industrial Services and Field Services businesses. Labor efficiencies and other margin generating initiatives we have undertaken put us in a good position to benefit when those key verticals rebound. Overall, we continue to see a substantial project pipeline that is only strengthened by growing PFAS opportunities. We believe our initiatives around CFO, partnerships and Group III production have stabilized our SKSS business. As a result, we expect to achieve our profitability target for this business in 2025.”