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High Margin, Engineering Company that Creates Oil-Water Separators
Texas
About the business
The company specializes in designing and supplying coalescing plate oil-water separators for commercial, industrial, and municipal clients throughout North America. These systems enable customers to meet environmental regulations in a wide range of applications, including stormwater management, vehicle and aircraft maintenance, industrial and chemical processing, oil and gas production and refining, and electric power generation.
Coalescing separators are gravity-based, durable, and low-maintenance, while delivering greater efficiency than alternative technologies. To maintain flexibility and cost-effectiveness, manufacturing and installation are outsourced, supporting a lean, scalable, and relocatable business model.
Highlights
- •**Facilities & Assets**
- •Currently run from a small home office with low overhead; no specialized facility required. (Home Based).
- •**Support & Training**
- •The owner is committed to a smooth transition and will remain available for training and consulting to ensure a smooth handover and new ownership success. This includes on how to size the separators which depend on the requested flow rate, droplet density, average droplet size, and the operating temperature.
- •**Market & Competition**
- •Coalescing plate separators are the most cost effective and efficient way to separate oil from water and outperform competing technologies like API separators, swirl devices, and tube separators. They are much more cost effective than higher end separation technologies such as Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) and Induced Air Flotation (IAF) which are only used in specific circumstances. The Global demand for oil water separation in 2024 was valued at 1.4 million USD and expected to grow in the US as the industrial base expands.
- •**Growth Opportunities**
- •A new owner has significant opportunity to formalize marketing and drive growth. The current owner, nearing retirement, relies on repeat customers, referrals, a concrete vault partner, technical papers, and the website for new business with no active sales are marketing campaigns. Growth could be accelerated by expanding industry partnerships, refreshing the website and technical content, and leveraging the existing customer database to generate additional leads and sales.
- •**Reason Selling**
- •Owner is retiring.