Skip to main content

About Us

Clean Harbors invents, develops, and markets proprietary chemical products under its registered trade name Paratene™. Paratene™ chemicals are used to solve deposition problems found within the hydrocarbon production, refining, storage, and transportation sector, and various industrial sectors including pulp and paper, mining, power generation, and petrochemical industries.

Our People

The Clean Harbors Specialty Chemical Group is a distinct team of Professional Chemists working in our research and development laboratory based in Calgary, AB. Our chemists research and develop new, innovative, safe, environmentally friendly, and better-performing chemicals designed from real problems reported from field implications to better suit clientele needs.

Lab Services

Clean Harbors offers industry-leading sample analysis lab services to suit our customers’ needs best. Among ongoing research into developing new chemistry for industrial services, we provide a robust sample analysis to tailor specific chemistry to each unique sample and the desired cleaning method. This process ensures our customers in all industrial markets get their equipment cleaned optimally, efficiently, and safely.

Safety

Paratene™ chemicals deliver on performance while being safer and readily less harmful than previous-generation industrial cleaning chemicals and, when applicable, biodegradable. Built into our products is safety. Paratene™ SHP can completely dissolve Iron Sulphides without releasing toxic Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) gas.