Environmental services firm to build $40M refinery

Heritage-Crystal Clean Inc., a waste-management company with ties to  locally based Calumet Specialty Products Partners
LP, plans to build its first used oil re-refinery,  on West 10th Street in Indianapolis.

The project will be a $40 million investment for the NASDAQ-traded company, and will result in 75 new jobs by 2013, according
to a press release from the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

Heritage-Crystal did not disclose the address of the planned refinery, but it has existing operations at 3970 W. 10th St.
in Speedway. The company purchased that site, which it had previously leased, in June of 2009, according to its annual report.
Indianapolis is the largest of the company's four operations hubs and is home to a state-of-the-art solvent recycling
tower, according to the annual report.

Heritage-Crystal is based in Elgin, Ill., but has its roots in Indianapolis. Its major shareholders are Heritage Group and
Fred Fehsenfeld, Jr., whose family started Calumet Specialty Products and took it public in 2005. Organized in Indiana in
1999, Heritage Crystal Clean has been expanding the parts-cleaning and used-oil-recycling business started by its predecessor
about 30 years ago.

The company provides services for parts cleaning, containerized waste management, used oil collection and vacuum truck services
to customers in the automotive service and manufacturing industries. It has 500 employees and operates 62 branches in the
Midwest and eastern states.

Heritage-Crystal expects to start operating the new re-refinery at partial capacity in 2012 and is in the process of hiring
oil route drivers, plant operators, maintenance and supervisory personnel, according to the IEDC.

"We chose Indiana because it is centrally located with good infrastructure and supports the recycling of used oil,"
said Joe Chalhoub, CEO and President for Heritage-Crystal Clean, in a prepared statement.

The IEDC offered Heritage Crystal-Clean up to $550,000 in performance-based tax credits based on the company's job-creation
plans. Up to an additional $100,000 will be made available to the city of Indianapolis for infrastructure improvements from
the state's Industrial Development Grant Fund. The city of Indianapolis has granted Heritage Crystal-Clean a $2.3 million
property-tax abatement and $150,000 for additional infrastructure assistance at the request of Develop Indy.

"It's always great for the town when a business starts, grows and stays a part of the community. The jobs and the
investment represent a commitment to the town of Speedway and demonstrate that this is a great place to do business,"
said Barbara Lawrence, town manager for Speedway, in a prepared statement.