Data Clean Corporation, a portfolio company of Angeles Equity, has completed its second add-on acquisition with the buy of Sealco, a provider of data center cleaning services.
Sealco’s capabilities include decontamination and airflow management services for hyperscalers, enterprise data centers, colocation facilities, and industrial and pharmaceutical cleanrooms that are located across the South and Southeast United States. Sealco was founded in 1984 and is headquartered near Dallas in Richardson, Texas.
Angeles Equity acquired Data Clean in November 2022 in partnership with the company’s owners – Richard Hill and Dean Sirakides – to execute a buy-and-build strategy in the critical environment contamination control sector. The buy of Sealco follows the buy of SML Enterprises, a Virginia-based provider of environmental contamination control services to data centers and cleanrooms, in June 2023.
Data Clean’s services include exterior hardware cleaning, top-of-floor cleaning, and underfloor plenum cleaning. Combinations of these services are performed by the company at scheduled intervals, ranging from once per year to once a day. Within a data center, a plenum refers to the area above the suspended ceiling or under the raised floor that is used for the circulation of air. It acts as a pathway for distributing cool air from the cooling systems to the server racks and other equipment in the data center.
Data Clean provides its services to thousands of facilities around the world including data centers, computer rooms, network and telecommunications facilities (through its “Data Clean” branded division) and biopharmaceutical and life sciences cleanrooms and laboratories (through its “Sterile Science” branded division).
The company’s Sterile Science division provides sanitization services (reduces contamination by 99.9% or 3-log), disinfection services (eliminates between 99.99% and 99.999% of all contaminates), and sterilization services (eliminates 99.9999% of all organisms, known as a 6-log). The division’s customers include operators of pharmaceutical suites, cleanrooms, healthcare facilities, critical production and laboratory areas.
Data Clean operates full-service branches in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and the United States. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered near Chicago in Des Plaines, Illinois.
“Sealco’s legacy as a premier data center decontamination solution provider in the South, bolstered by its experienced team and consistent excellence in service provision for over four decades, is widely recognized,” said Mr. Hill. “By combining Sealco’s great people, processes, and technology with Data Clean’s, we believe we are uniquely qualified to troubleshoot and solve any cleaning, decontamination, or airflow issues in data processing and other critical environments.”
“Sealco is arguably one of the most experienced domestic specialty contamination control providers and has long maintained an industry-leading presence in the strategically important Southeast data center market,” said Frank Spelman, a managing director at Angeles Equity. “As data centers continue to scale, and their complexity increases, the need for a sophisticated, critical contamination provider with a national presence is expected to increase.”
Los Angeles-based Angeles Equity makes control investments in companies with enterprise values up to $200 million that have headquarters and primary operations in the United States and Canada. Sectors of interest include aerospace, automotive, building products, capital goods, chemicals, electronics, manufacturing, metals, transportation and logistics, packaging, and distribution.
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