NOTE 1
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (the Company, which may be referred to as we, us, or our), an environmental and technology know-how company, is a Delaware corporation, engaged through its subsidiaries, in two reportable segments:
TREATMENT SEGMENT which includes:
| - | nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed (waste containing both hazardous and low-level radioactive constituents), hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, processing and disposal services primarily through four uniquely licensed and permitted treatment and storage facilities; and |
| - | research and development activities to identify, develop and implement innovative waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. |
SERVICE SEGMENT which includes:
| - | On-site waste management services to commercial and government customers; |
| - | Technical services which include: |
| o | health physic and radiological control technician services providing both field support as well as professional technical support to commercial and government customers; |
| o | safety and industrial hygiene services providing field support and professional technical support to commercial and government customers; |
| o | staff augmentation services providing consulting, engineering, project management, waste management, environmental, and decontamination and decommissioning field personnel, technical personnel, management and services to commercial and government customers; and |
| o | consulting engineering services (through our Schreiber, Yonley & Associates subsidiary – “SYA”) providing consulting environmental services to industrial and government customers; |
| § | including air, water, and hazardous waste permitting, air, soil and water sampling, compliance reporting, emission reduction strategies, compliance auditing, and various compliance and training activities; and |
| § | engineering and compliance support to other segments. |
| - | A company owned equipment calibration and maintenance laboratory that services, maintains and calibrates health physics and industrial hygiene instrumentation. |
We have grown through acquisitions and internal growth. On October 31, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Safety & Ecology Holdings Corporation (“SEHC”) and its subsidiaries, Safety & Ecology Corporation (“SEC”), SEC Federal Services Corporation, Safety & Ecology Corporation Limited (“SECL” - a United Kingdom facility) and SEC Radcon Alliance, LLC (“SECRA” – which we own 75%), (Collectively “SEC”), pursuant to that certain Stock Purchase Agreement, dated July 15, 2011 (“Purchase Agreement”), between the Company, Homeland Capital Security Corporation (“Homeland”) and SEHC. SEC is an international provider of environmental, hazardous and radiological remediation infrastructure upgrades and nuclear energy services and is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. SEC provides remediation of nuclear materials for the U.S. government and other commercial customers (see “Note 7 – Business Acquisition” for further detail on this acquisition).
Our consolidated financial statements include our accounts and the accounts of our wholly-owned subsidiaries as follows:
Continuing Operations: Diversified Scientific Services, Inc. (“DSSI”), East Tennessee Materials & Energy Corporation (“M&EC”), Perma-Fix of Florida, Inc. (“PFF”), Perma-Fix of Northwest Richland, Inc. (“PFNWR”), Schreiber, Yonley and Associates (“SYA”), Safety & Ecology Corporation (“SEC”), Safety & Ecology Corporation Limited (“SECL” - a United Kingdom facility) and SEC Radcon Alliance, LLC (“SECRA”).
Discontinued Operations (See “Note 8”): Perma-Fix of Fort Lauderdale, Inc. (“PFFL” – divested on August 12, 2011), Perma-Fix of South Georgia, Inc. (“PFSG”), and Perma-Fix of Orlando (“PFO” – divested on October 14, 2011); Perma-Fix of Maryland (“PFMD”), Perma-Fix of Dayton, Inc. (“PFD”), and Perma-Fix Treatment Services, Inc. (“PFTS”), which were sold in January 2008, March 2008, and May 2008, respectively; and Perma-Fix of Michigan, Inc. (“PFMI”), Perma-Fix of Pittsburgh, Inc. (“PFP”), and Perma-Fix of Memphis, Inc. (“PFM”), three non-operational facilities.