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FCC Environmental, with its headquarters
in Houston (Texas) provides services to
more than 40,000 clients through its 33
processing plants situated in 22 States.
It focuses on a sustainable development
model, with services ranging from efficient
recycling for industrial cleaning projects as
well as other service activities such as soil
decontamination.
FCC
in
Houston
key destination for businessmen and all of
those who seek new opportunities.
Founded in 1836
The city of Houston was founded in 1836
by the brothers Augustus and John Allen.
In the following year, Houston was incorpo-
rated in the Republic of Texas and was the
capital of the State until 1840. The city was
named after Sam Houston, the general who
led the Battle of San Jacinto, who at that
time was the president of the Republic of
Texas. This battle took place 40 km east of
where the city had been founded.
At that time, the economy of Houston was
based mainly on agriculture. Nevertheless,
after oil was discovered in 1901, it beca-
me the key mainstay of the economy. In the
middle of the twentieth century, Houston
became the home of the Texas Medical
Center, the largest concentration of re-
search and healthcare facilities in the world.
It also became the home of NASA’s Lyndon
B. Johnson mission control centre for all
manned space flights, Houston is famous
worldwide for its petrochemical, oil, and
natural gas industry. It is the main hub for
the construction of equipment for the oil in-
dustry. A large part of the city’s success as
a petrochemical complex is due to its har-
bour, the leading one in the United States
for international trade and the tenth largest
one in the world.
Operator at the New Orleans plant unloading a truck that collects used engine oil.