Eqm
Cincinnati, US · Founded 1990 · 116 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Environmental Quality Management provides environmental remediation, emergency response, consulting, and emission measurement services to federal and commercial clients in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. The company specializes in air quality permitting, compliance, water management, waste handling, and environmental health and safety services.
Also known as Environmental Quality Management Services · Environmental Quality Management, Inc. · EQM · EQM Services · EQMS
Founders & leadership
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (EQM) is an environmental services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, that provides environmental consulting, emission measurement (stack testing), environmental remediation and construction, and emergency and rapid response services. Its Engineering & Consulting Group advises clients on air quality permitting, compliance outsourcing, water quality management, waste management, chemical inventory and reporting, industrial hygiene, stack testing and broader EHS program management. Its Remediation & Construction and Emergency & Rapid Response groups execute remediation and construction projects for federal and commercial clients, including work involving complex scopes and difficult contaminated waste streams.
EQM's professional staff includes engineers, chemists, hazardous waste managers, site superintendents, operators and safety specialists. Representative projects listed by the company include a power plant environmental compliance program, university stormwater pollution prevention plan development, PFAS emission measurement program development, fire response work in Sonoma County, fence-to-fence services at Edwards Air Force Base, mine remediation in the Oronogo-Duenweg Mining Belt, residential remediation at the Jacobsville Superfund Site, and sediment remediation and ecosystem restoration at Allied Paper/Portage Creek.
Environmental Quality Management Services (EQMS) is the 8(a)-certified federal government contracting division of EQM and a wholly owned subsidiary of AIS. EQM is led by President and General Manager Thomas C. Gerstle, P.E., with vice presidents covering engineering and consulting, emergency and rapid response services, remediation and construction, and industrial hygiene.
Business model
EQM sells project-based and program-based environmental services — consulting and compliance support, emission testing, remediation and construction, and emergency response — to industrial and government customers, contracting directly with federal agencies through vehicles such as its GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract and, via EQMS, the SBA 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business Development Program. It positions itself as a turn-key provider with in-house expertise and equipment, backed by parent company AIS and more than 30 sister companies. [0][2][4]
Traction
EQM's government services group reports having performed over 3,000 projects and contracted with 15 different federal agencies since the company's inception in 1990, working on private, public and federal sites nationwide, including hundreds of site assessment, remedial action, reutilization and redevelopment projects. [4]
Latest developments
EQM joined the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation family of companies through AIS in 2019, and EQM Services was established as the SBA-certified 8(a) arm of EQM. [0]
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
EQM describes itself as a small business in environmental consulting, stack testing, remediation and construction, serving industrial, public and government sectors, and supported by the resources of parent AIS and the wider Arctic Slope Regional Corporation group. [0][2]
EQM and EQMS combine small business and 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business status with the backing of parent company AIS and more than 30 sister companies' resources, and offer in-house expertise and equipment across consulting, emission measurement, remediation, construction and emergency response. [0][2]
Technology
Service capabilities include air permitting and compliance, chemical inventory and reporting, EHS program management, source and ambient air sampling and emission measurement, emission factor development, industrial hygiene, water and waste management, and remediation and construction for contaminated soil, groundwater, wastewater and sediment. [0][2]
Go-to-market
EQM contracts directly with industrial and federal clients and uses small-business and socioeconomic contracting channels: it is an approved General Services Administration provider (contract GS-10F-0293K, held since 2015), and EQM Services (EQMS) is its SBA-certified 8(a) arm. Through ASRC ownership, AIS companies qualify as Minority Business Enterprises and Small Disadvantaged Businesses when subcontracting to prime contractors on federal procurements and are eligible for the SBA 8(a) and Department of Transportation DBE programs. [0][2][4]
Industrial and manufacturing companies in sectors including automotive, food and beverage, and petroleum refining, along with public-sector and federal clients. Named federal clients include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Energy. [0][2][4]
Geography
Corporate headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, with an emission measurement office in Crown Point, Indiana; a Region 5 emergency response location in Hammond, Indiana; and government contracts offices in West Sacramento, California and Bothell, Washington. Clients span the United States. [2][3]
History
EQM was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2019 it joined the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) family of companies under ASRC's subsidiary AIS, which is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. EQM Services (EQMS), the company's SBA-certified 8(a) federal government contracting division and a wholly owned subsidiary of AIS, was subsequently established. ASRC itself was established in 1972 following passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and represents over 13,000 Iñupiat shareholders. [0][2]
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Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Non-dilutive funding · 2 SBIR/STTR awards
Federal grants — no equity takenSource: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsEQM became part of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) family of companies under ASRC subsidiary AIS.
EQM Services was established as the SBA 8(a)-certified federal government contracting division of EQM and a wholly owned subsidiary of AIS.
EQM became an approved General Services Administration provider under contract GS-10F-0293K, held since 2015.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Eqmeqm.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Eqm do?
- Environmental Quality Management (EQM) is a US environmental consulting, emission measurement, remediation and construction firm.
- Who are Eqm's investors?
- Eqm's investors include The Argentum Group.
- Where is Eqm headquartered?
- Eqm is headquartered in Cincinnati, US.