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Largest Waste & Environmental Services Public Companies in France
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Veolia, Derichebourg, Séché Environnement, Pizzorno Environnement and Carbios.
 | Veolia is the largest water company globally and a leading player in France. It is also involved in waste management with significant exposure to France, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Australia. The third pillar of the group is energy services, giving the group significant exposure to Central Europe. Veolia started to refocus its activities in 2011, leading to the exit of almost half of its countries and its transport activity The integration of most activities of Suez in 2022 drove an EBITDA increase of nearly 40%. | $41 | +17% | $30B | $42B | 0.8x | 5.1x | ||
| Derichebourg SA is a France-based company that offers environmental services. Its activities can be divided into two separate branches, the Environment Division and the Multiservices Division. The Environment Division's core business is the processing and disposal of waste, mainly metal waste and end-of-life products, with the recovery of secondary raw materials by using the appropriate processing methods. Derichebourg Multiservices, the group's Business Services arm, provides reception, cleaning, energy, property maintenance, and temporary staffing services separately or in tandem with the Derichebourg Group's waste management services. | $12 | +78% | $2B | $3B | 0.7x | 7.1x | ||
| Seche Environnement SA is a France-based company that offers waste management services. It accepts and treats various categories of waste, such as dispersed hazardous and non-hazardous, medical waste, and waste from electronic equipment. Geographically, the company operates in France, Europe, and Rest of the world.. | $95 | -18% | $736M | $1B | 1.0x | 5.5x | ||
| Groupe Pizzorno Environnement is engaged in providing environmental services in France. It is involved in the collection, compaction, pressing, truck transportation, sorting, and treatment of household, commercial, and industrial waste. The company also provides sanitation services, including sewer and septic tank cleaning, and clean and dirty water system maintenance, as well as cisterns, basements, and other inundated sites pumping services; and industrial cleaning services for commercial spaces, malls, offices, public buildings. | $71 | -3% | $274M | $308M | 1.0x | 4.0x | ||
| Carbios SA specializes in developing industrial bio-process for the recycling of plastic waste and the production of the biopolymer. The company creates a new generation of fully biodegradable plastics with a controlled lifespan, a process enabling infinite biorecycling of plastic waste (PET) and a new biological pathway to produce biosourced polymers. It uses Biodegradation; Biorecycling and Bioproduction techniques. | $7 | -14% | $125M | $86M | 541.5x | (3.0x) | ||
| Aurea is a France-based company which operates in the environmental and sustainable development sector. The company focuses on activities related to the recycling of motor oils, to the production of wheels with solid rubber tires at the base of used tires, and to the recycling of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). | $7 | +2% | $62M | $74M | 0.3x | 4.9x | ||
| Orege is engaged in providing solutions for the treatment of complex effluents and sludge. Its two proprietary technologies SOFHYS and SLG provide treatment solutions to oil and gas, chemistry, municipal and agri-food sectors. | $0 | +17% | $19M | $96M | 27.1x | (16.2x) | ||
| UV Germi SA develops and manufactures UV sterilizers for water treatment. | $3 | -8% | $7M | $1M | 0.2x | 2.4x | ||
| Europlasma SA offers hazardous and non-hazardous waste management solutions. The company specializes in waste vitrification and develops equipment used in plasma-arc treatment which produces glass-like, leach-resistant slag. | $0 | -100% | $1M | $9M | 0.2x | (3.1x) | ||
| Median | $7 | -3% | $125M | $96M | 0.8x | 4.0x |
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