Ecolab Inc. ECL

What this company does

Ecolab provides water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. It has $16 billion in annual sales. As of December 31, 2025, Ecolab employed approximately 48,000 employees. It organizes its business into four reportable segments — Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences. The Global Water segment provides water treatment and process applications and cleaning and sanitizing solutions, primarily to large industrial customers in industries such as manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, primary metals and mining, power generation, refining, petrochemical, and pulp and paper. The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides specialized cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, hospitality, lodging, government, education and retail industries. Pest Elimination provides services designed to detect, prevent and eliminate pests, such as rodents and insects, in full-service and quick-service restaurants, food and beverage processors, hotels, grocery operations and other commercial segments. Ecolab was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in 1924.

Written from the business description in ECOLAB INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.