Layne Christensen Company Fund Company Profile

Description

Layne Christensen Company operates as a water management, construction, and drilling company that provide solutions for the water, mineral, and energy markets worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Water Resources, Inliner, Heavy Civil, and Mineral Services. The Water Resources segment offers water-related products and services, including hydrologic design and construction; source of supply exploration; well and intake construction; and well and pump rehabilitation services. This segment also provides water treatment equipment engineering services and systems for the treatment of regulated and nuisance contaminants. In addition, it offers closed loop water management solutions to energy companies that are involved in hydraulic fracturing. The Inliner segment provides process, sanitary, and storm water rehabilitation solutions to municipalities and industrial customers dealing with aging infrastructure needs, as well as other rehabilitative methods, such as Janssen structural renewal for service lateral connections and mainlines, slip lining, traditional excavation and replacement, and manhole renewal with cementitious and epoxy products. The Heavy Civil segment offers water and wastewater treatment plants design and construction, and pipeline installation services; builds radial collector wells, surface water intakes, pumping stations, and hard rock tunnels, as well as offers marine construction services; and designs and constructs biogas facilities. The Mineral Services segment conducts above ground drilling activities comprising core drilling, reverse circulation, dual tube, hammer, and rotary air-blast methods; and provides exploratory and definition drilling services. The company was formerly known as Layne Inc. and changed its name to Layne Christensen Company in June 1996. Layne Christensen Company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.