Stantec Acquires Secor, U.S. Environmental Engineering Firm

Secor, founded in 1989, is described as one of the largest providers of downstream marketing remedial services to the U.S. energy industry, and also provides environmental monitoring and remediation services to the manufacturing, chemical, transport and pulp and paper sectors.

"The addition of Secor significantly increases our environment practice area's service offering, particularly for our clients in the private sector," stated Stantec CEO Tony Franceschini.

Stantec's environmental practice area now has more than 2,300 engineers, scientists, and technical specialists, in a total workforce of 8,500 at about 125 locations.

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