Seche Environnement, a company specialising in waste management, including the most complex and hazardous waste, agreed to acquire ECO Industrial Environmental Engineering, a provider of hazardous and non-hazardous waste management solutions, from Beijing Capital Group, a state-owned real estate enterprise, for $447m. "Our Group has seized a rare opportunity to invest in a regional leader in hazardous waste management. With its comprehensive hazardous waste management offering, ECO enables us to serve a core customer base in a dynamic industrial region. Thanks to its commercial dynamism, cutting-edge know-how and high-performance technological tools, ECO will provide us with a platform for significant growth in the APAC region in all our businesses, from the circular economy to hazard management and environmental services. This is a major operation that will accelerate our strategy of profitable growth," Maxime Séché, Seche Environnement CEO.