Asbestos & Lead Abatement
Licensed abatement contractors safely removing asbestos and lead materials.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Environmental Remediation & Abatement (5.3.5), the segment that Asbestos & Lead Abatement sits within — not Asbestos & Lead Abatement on its own.
- Market size
- ~$23B
- Growth
- ~7.2%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~5,900
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP/Economic Census, NAICS 562910 (remediation services).
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Remediation and abatement project contracts
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- Low–Moderate
- EBITDA margin
- Specialized, regulation-driven economics
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
ongoing monitoring and programs
Characteristics
- Regulation- and redevelopment-driven cleanup.
- PFAS remediation a significant growth area.
- Technically specialized and fragmented.
Geographic concentration
Environmental remediation and abatement over-indexes where industrial and resource-extraction cleanup demand is highest — Alaska, Louisiana, Colorado, and Connecticut.
U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 County Business Patterns (establishments by state), NAICS 562910. Concentration shown by location quotient.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Environmental-services strategics
- PE-backed remediation platforms
- Industrial-services consolidators
What’s driving deals
- PFAS and emerging-contaminant demand.
- Brownfield redevelopment and regulation.
- Consolidation of specialized contractors.
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