Perma-Fix Renews and Expands Contract from Leading North-American Home-Improvement Retail Chain to $10 Million
ATLANTA, May 2, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PESI) (BSE: PESI) (Germany: PES.BE) announced today that its Industrial Services Segment has been awarded a renewed and expanded two-year contract worth approximately $10 million, from a leading North-American home- improvement retail chain. Under the new contract, Perma-Fix will service approximately 1,400 retail outlets and provide collection, treatment and disposal of outdated, damaged and returned consumer products in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. The expanded contract represents a 150 percent increase over the prior contract, and includes a variety of new services critical to the client's environmental stewardship and liability management.
Dr. Louis F. Centofanti, Perma-Fix Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We appreciate this re-affirmation of the quality of our services from this important and prestigious client. Our successes in 2004 have led our client to not only select us again in the new year, but to award this multi- year agreement, which expands our coverage of their network, and adds a number of new products and services. This is a clear indication of the quality of the management team in place within the Industrial Services Segment."
Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. is a national environmental services company, providing unique mixed waste and industrial waste management services. The Nuclear Segment provides radioactive and mixed waste treatment services to hospitals, research laboratories and institutions, numerous federal agencies including the Departments of Energy and Defense and nuclear utilities. The Industrial Segment provides hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment services for a diverse group of customers including Fortune 500 companies, numerous federal, state and local agencies and thousands of smaller clients. The Company operates eleven major waste treatment facilities across the country.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" which are based largely on the Company's expectations and are subject to various business risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the Company's control. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the information concerning statements that the contract has a value of approximately $10 million. These forward-looking statements are intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While the Company believes the expectations reflected in this news release are reasonable, it can give no assurance such expectations will prove to be correct. There are a variety of factors which could cause future outcomes to differ materially from those described in this release, including without limitation, general economic conditions, future environmental regulatory restrictions, disputes arising under the contract, failure to deliver waste volumes anticipated under the contract, or termination of the contract prior to its completion. The Company makes no commitment to disclose any revisions to forward-looking statements, or any facts, events or circumstances after the date hereof that bear upon forward- looking statements.
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Released May 2, 2005