Ecolab, Inc.: Making the World a Cleaner and Safer Place

Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Ecolab, Inc. is a global provider of technologies and services that ensure the safety of food and water. The business was created as Economics Laboratory in 1923 and is now headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Merritt J. Osborn founded the business and it focuses its resources in providing the world the best water, hygiene and energy technologies. Their products and services are marketed globally and are most helpful to companies that thrive in the industry of hospitality, healthcare, food, energy and the industrial markets. Through the technology the business offers, businesses are able to ensure that their working environment remains to be clean and safe and is capable of operating efficiently. Ecolab is best known for supplying chemicals needed by beef and poultry processors to reduce the presence of pathogens in their products, especially the salmonella and E. Coli virus.

There are millions of customers in more than 170 countries that trust the services provided by Ecolab. The company employs more than 45,000 associates that have made it their business to make the world safe and clean.