A DECADE OF INNOVATION

John Evanko

Where do the years go?

2005 marks our first ten years of operations. We're calling it a "decade of innovation."

Innovations that have made rail a viable option for transporting a range of radioactive and other hazardous materials, with strategies that include packaging, technical services and intermodal rail, truck and marine conveyances.

A growing fleet of specialized equipment - railcars, containers and more - designed specifically for shippers of hazardous materials, an innovation not common when we introduced it. Our most recent container breakthrough was last year's introduction of our Shielded Multi-Use Type-A Container for radioactive materials.

Rigid and flexible packaging innovations - including various intermodal containers, Lift Liners^TM for bulk materials and Super Load Wrappers^TM that line gondola railcars - offering more economical solutions for packaging hazardous materials.

Plus, the innovation of bringing together experts with detailed knowledge - about the needs of our clients, as well as of government regulations, waste management requirements and transportation methods - in one company so that we can offer truly one-stop solutions.

Our founder, John Evanko, had a vision about a new way of doing business. A vision to offer new choices and new strategies to package and transport sensitive materials, economically and safely.

Ten years later, we're the leaders in our field, with deep relationships with scores of government agencies, utilities, manufacturers and others involved in remediation and waste management.

But how did it all happen so fast? We feel like we're just getting started - with so much more to achieve.

Here are a few of our key milestones:

1995	First year of operations.
1996	First EPA Superfund assignment, to move coal tar-contaminated soil from a site in Pennsylvania.
1997	First work on a DOE site, in Ashtabula, Ohio. We open our first transload facility, in Cisco, Utah, for packaged materials. Today we have five of our own transload facilities in the U.S., plus access to a network of others across North America.
1999	First nuclear power plant decommissioning project, at the Maine Yankee plant. Our first FUSRAP assignment, near the St. Louis Airport. Our first of three appearances on Inc. magazine's roster of fastest-growing companies.
2000	Our equipment fleet now includes more than 1,000 railcars and 1,500 intermodal containers.
2001	We purchase Transport Packaging, in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Founder and CEO John Evanko named "Master Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young.
2003	We complete the industry's first intermodal (rail/truck) shipment to the Nevada Test Site. Also, we are the first to move a reactor head (from the Davis-Besse nuclear facility in Ohio) via rail.
2004	We introduce our lead-lined, intermodal Shielded Type-A Multi-Use Container, designed by and built exclusively for us. We move large steam generators via rail, from the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant in California.
2005	Celebrating our first "decade of innovation."