Harsco Corporation is a diversified, worldwide industrial company based in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Harsco operates in 45 countries and employs approximately 21,000 people worldwide. The company provides
industrial servicesAn industry is the manufacturing of a good or service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw...
and
engineered productsEngineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council...
that serve some of the world’s largest and most essential industries, including
steelSteel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
,
constructionIn the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking...
, railways, and
energyIn physics, energy is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be performed by a force, an attribute of objects and systems that is subject to a conservation law...
. The 2005 revenues totaled $2.8 billion, nearly 60% of which were generated internationally.
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Harsco Corporation is a diversified, worldwide industrial company based in the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Harsco operates in 45 countries and employs approximately 21,000 people worldwide. The company provides
industrial servicesAn industry is the manufacturing of a good or service within a category. Although industry is a broad term for any kind of economic production, in economics and urban planning industry is a synonym for the secondary sector, which is a type of economic activity involved in the manufacturing of raw...
and
engineered productsEngineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council...
that serve some of the world’s largest and most essential industries, including
steelSteel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
,
constructionIn the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking...
, railways, and
energyIn physics, energy is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be performed by a force, an attribute of objects and systems that is subject to a conservation law...
. The 2005 revenues totaled $2.8 billion, nearly 60% of which were generated internationally. Harsco is headquartered in Wormleysburg, a suburb of
Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaHarrisburg is the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 48,950, making it the tenth largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem, Lancaster, and...
.
History
Harsco was founded in 1850 as
The Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company and changed its name to
Harrisburg Steel Corporation in 1935. It then changed its name to
Harsco Corporation in 1956. ,
Financial information
Harsco reported total sales of USD $3.24 billion in fiscal . , its
market capitalizationMarket capitalization/capitalisation is a measurement of the size of a business enterprise equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company...
was about $3.37 billion.
Stock exchanges
Harsco is traded publicly on
NYSEThe New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by United States dollar value of its listed companies' securities...
with
ticker symbolA stock symbol or ticker symbol is a short abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both...
HSC.