HSC Company Profile

Harsco Corporation is a diversified, multinational provider of industrial services and engineered products serving global industries that are fundamental to worldwide economic growth and infrastructure development. The Company's operations consist of three reportable segments: Harsco Metals & Minerals, Harsco Industrial and Harsco Rail. The Company has locations in approximately 30 countries, including the U.S. The Company was incorporated in 1956.

The Company's operations previously included the Harsco Infrastructure Segment. In November 2013, the Company consummated the sale of the Company's Harsco Infrastructure Segment into a strategic venture with Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ("CD&R") as part of a transaction that combined the Harsco Infrastructure Segment with Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, Inc., which CD&R simultaneously acquired. The Company contributed substantially all of the Company’s equity interests in, and the net assets of, the Harsco Infrastructure Segment to the strategic venture in exchange for approximately $300 million in cash, subject to working capital and other adjustments, and an approximate 29% equity interest in the Infrastructure strategic venture. The Company’s equity interest in the Infrastructure strategic venture was accounted for under the equity method of accounting as prescribed by generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S.

Global expertise in providing on-site services for material logistics, product quality improvement and resource recovery from iron, steel and metals manufacturing; as well as value added environmental solutions for industrial co-products

Global metals production and capacity utilization


Outsourcing of services by metals producers


Demand for high-value specialty steel and ferro alloys


Demand for environmental solutions for metals and minerals waste streams



Demand for industrial and infrastructure surface preparation and restoration



Demand for residential roofing shingles



Demand for road making materials
Air-cooled heat exchangers

Demand in the natural gas, natural gas processing and petrochemical markets
Industrial grating and high-security fencing products

Industrial plant and warehouse construction and expansion



Off-shore drilling and new rig construction



High-security fencing requirements to protect major facilities and infrastructure
Heat transfer products

Demand for commercial and institutional boilers and water heaters
Railway track maintenance services and equipment

Global railway track maintenance-of-way capital spending



Outsourcing of track maintenance and new track construction by railroads