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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MED-SHRED RAISES $7 MILLION IN
“B ROUND” FINANCING
Funding will Complete the Medical
Waste Treatment Firm’s Texas Expansion and Paves Way for Med-Shred’s National
Rollout
Houston, TX – October 28, 2004
Med-Shred, Inc., the world’s premier mobile on-site
medical waste treatment services company, announced today it raised $7.0
million in Series B equity financing. Murphree Venture Partners (Houston,
Texas) led the financing round that included Chrysalis Ventures
(Louisville, Kentucky), Cogene Ventures (Houston, Texas), Delta Capital
(Memphis, Tennessee), Erasmas Louisiana Growth Fund (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
and individual investors. Med-Shred will use the funding for its on-going
business expansion into the San Antonio/Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and
Corpus Christi/South Texas markets and for initiation of its national
rollout.
Med-Shred provides a patented, on-site, mobile
waste treatment service that is revolutionizing the way hospitals manage
their medical waste. “Instead of hauling waste hundreds of miles to a
central incinerator or autoclave plant, our truck-mounted process disinfects
and reduces medical waste volume by 85% in minutes right at the hospital’s
loading dock,” explains Med-Shred COO and founder, Raymond Hart. “We render
the medical waste harmless, make it HIPPA-compliant, and place the treated
waste in the hospital’s trash compactor for hospital disposal as ordinary
municipal solid waste.”
Waste industry veteran, Roger Ramsey, now leads
Med-Shred as its new Chairman and CEO. Mr. Ramsey is the founder and former
CEO of ($5.5B) Allied Waste Industries, Inc. and previously the co-founder
and CFO of ($3.5B) Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) which was acquired
by Allied in 1999. Growth companies with which Mr. Ramsey has been previously
associated have raised over $12 Billion in the national and international
capital markets. Throughout his career, Mr. Ramsey has played an important
role in taking three companies from start-up to multi-billion dollar public
corporations.
Med-Shred now services some of the largest hospitals
in Texas and its process meets all applicable regulatory requirements.
Med-Shred eliminates medical waste liabilities immediately because medical
waste never leaves the hospital site.
“Twelve years and millions of dollars have been
invested in developing our advanced technology,” says Med-Shred President
and founder, Randolph Henry. “Over the last two years we’ve proven our
process works extremely well by servicing major Houston hospitals.” Mr.
Henry also notes, “‘Customer pull’ from cities in Texas and other states
has been very strong, and we’re now positioned to rapidly capture these
new markets.”
Med-Shred CEO, Roger Ramsey reflects, “At Allied
Waste, I decided not to take the corporation into the medical waste business
because I predicted an advanced mobile process company, like Med-Shred,
would emerge and take over the market. Now I get to take part in making
that prediction a reality.”
New members of Med-Shred’s Board of Directors include
Koleman Karleski of Chrysalis
Ventures and Christopher Kersey, M.D. of Cogene Ventures. Existing Board
members include Dennis Murphree of Murphree Venture Partners and Med-Shred
officers, Roger Ramsey, Randolph Henry, and Raymond Hart.
Med-Shred is headquartered in Houston, TX with
offices in San Antonio/Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and Harlingen, Texas.
For investor information, please contact Dennis Murphree of Murphree Venture
Partners @ 713-655-8500. For waste treatment services information, please
contact Jim Rolfe, Med-Shred’s Corporate Development Director @ 713-457-0400.
ABOUT MED-SHRED
Med-Shred is a Texas-based corporation that provides
mobile on-site waste treatment services. Med-Shred’s patented waste processor
units utilize an EPA approved disinfecting solution. Med-Shred’s processors
eliminate medwaste liabilities, require no hospital capital investment,
provide HIPPA protection, and enable guaranteed cost reduction. In minutes,
Med-Shred-treated medwaste is rendered benign and deposited into existing
hospital waste compactors for disposal as ordinary municipal solid waste.
For more information, please visit: www.medshred.com.
ABOUT MED-SHRED INVESTORS
For more information on Med-Shred Investors, please
visit the following internet sites: Murphree Venture Partners (www.murphco.com),
Chrysalis Ventures (www.chrysalisventures.com), Cogene Biotech (www.cogenebiotech.com) and Delta Capital (www.deltacapital.com).
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