Mobile Fluid Recovery

Market position

MFR is a small, specialized provider operating in the environmental services sector (NAICS 54162, Environmental Consulting Services) alongside much larger industrial and hazardous waste firms such as Clean Harbors, Stericycle, Safety-Kleen, Republic Services and TRADEBE. With a team reported in the 1-10 range and revenue estimated at $1M-$10M, it competes on a niche patented separation capability rather than scale.

MFR bases its differentiation on three patented centrifuge/recycling processes and on being, by its own account, the only company offering these services on a mobile, on-site platform. On-site processing avoids waste transportation and allows customers to reuse their own recovered materials, while the claimed 30-50% cost savings relative to traditional disposal and the potential to convert waste into revenue form the commercial argument against conventional hazardous-waste disposal.

Technology

Patented high-speed centrifuge and drum-spin processes that remove free liquids — coolants, oils, solvents and alcohol — from absorbent pads, rags, wipes, booms and sludges, leaving both the fluid and the solid substrate available for reuse or recycling. The company reports three patents and delivers the technology on a mobile unit deployed at customer sites.

Go-to-market

The company markets directly to industrial facility operators through its website and service-line pages (swarf recycling, sanitizing wipe recycling, absorbent recycling), and has historically worked through partnerships with larger environmental and manufacturing organizations such as Heritage Environmental and General Motors. Reported marketing technology includes Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, HubSpot Analytics and Google Analytics.

Manufacturing and industrial facilities that generate multi-media waste, including milling, machining, CNC and honing operations producing coolants and swarf; plants generating oil absorbents, solvent rags and industrial sludges; and companies holding expired pre-saturated sanitizing wipes classified as hazardous waste. Sectors cited include automotive, aerospace and machining.

Geography

Headquartered in Seguin, Texas, United States, with employees listed in North America only. In 2011 the company was described as an Ohio corporation headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama with operations in Ohio and Alabama, serving General Motors plants in the upper Midwest.

History

MFR appears in 2011 press coverage as an Ohio corporation headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with operations in Ohio and Alabama, servicing seven General Motors plants in the upper Midwest with a patented 'free liquids' removal process and adding four more plants in March 2011. At that time it was a subsidiary-affiliated business of American Plant Services, LLC, and Arcis Resources Corporation (OTCBB:ARCS) had entered a share exchange agreement and contract to acquire MFR contingent on acquisition funding. Company profiles date the founding to 2012 and place current operations in Seguin, Texas. Later service lines added include recycling of expired pre-saturated alcohol and ethanol sanitizing wipes, a waste stream that grew during the COVID-19 pandemic.