HEPACO At A Glance

Lines of Business: Emergency response; environmental remediation; homeland security; industrial; abatement and training services

Headquarters: Charlotte, N.C.

Number of employees: Approximately 380 in 8 states

Office locations: Norfolk, Chesapeake, Richmond, and Fredericksburg, Virginia; Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia.; Memphis, Blountville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, Durham, Raleigh, Asheville, and Morehead City, North Carolina; Charleston and Greenville, South Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Birmingham, Alabama

Major clients/projects: HEPACO has provided emergency response services to disasters that received national attention. The company handled the 2005 clean-up of Graniteville, South Carolina, following a train disaster in which chlorine was released into the environment and the town was evacuated. HEPACO also oversaw clean-up following the 2005 explosion of a hazardous materials storage facility in El Dorado, Arkansas. HEPACO works with many well-known corporations in the transportation, communication, manufacturing, commercial and institutional industries. HEPACO has completed more than 14,000 projects.

Founder and President: Ron Horton, Sr.

Founded: 1984

Officers: Executive Vice President: Ron L. Horton, Jr.
Vice President: Neville Anderson
Chief Financial Officer: Vonda Hall
Treasurer & Regional Manager: Richard Horton
Regional Manager: Robert May
Regional Manager: David Gordon
Regional Manager: Glenn Blasingame

Media contact: Rhonda Pope, 800-888-7689 or 704/598-9782

Awards

CSX Honors HEPACO with Performance Quality Award

CSX Transportation chose HEPACO for the most coveted award in our industry, the Performance Quality Award. We received the award in spring 2004 from CSX Transportation’s Hazardous Material Systems Incident Ready Team at the organization’s annual conference. “In our industry, this is like winning the Super Bowl,” says HEPACO president and CEO Ron Horton Sr.

Along with recognizing HEPACO as a whole, CSX Transportation has also presented awards to three HEPACO employees. Our Atlanta emergency response manager, our Charlotte emergency response manager, and our East Tennessee manager have all received Field Service Awards for exemplary performance.

CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fl., owns the largest rail network in the eastern United States. Its subsidiary, CSX Transportation, Inc., and its 34,000 employees provide rail transportation services over a 23,000 route-mile network in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces.

CSX Transportation’s HazMat Team is known throughout the industry as the premier emergency response and environmental cleanup organization in this country, and we are honored to be associated with it.

Other Awards to HEPACO:

• Quality Contractor of the Year award from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Associated of General Contractors, President Award for Safety Performance
• U.S. Coast Guard Emergency Responder, Oil Spill Removal Organization
• CFMA Subcontractor of the Year
• Top 200 Environmental Contractors in USA, Engineering News-Record
• Top 600 Specialty Contractors, Engineering News-Record
• CHEMTREC CHEMNET Responder- Chemical Transportation Emergency Center