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What do you think of Marsulex?

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Marsulex Inc., $11.75, symbol MLX on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 32.9 million; Market cap: $386.0 million), provides environmental services that include controlling air quality and treating and handling industrial by-products and hazardous waste. The company also makes and sells sulphur-based industrial and water-treatment chemicals. Marsulex’s Industrial Services division, which accounts for 51% of its overall sales, helps oil refiners and power generators comply with environmental regulations on air and water quality. This division treats sulphur compounds that are created during the refining process, handles petroleum coke and disposes of hazardous waste, among other services. The company’s Western Markets division (22% of sales) sells sulphur-based industrial chemicals, such as sulphuric acid and liquid sulphur dioxide. It also supplies aluminum sulphate for treating water. Marsulex’s Environmental Technologies division (27% of sales) helps electrical utilities and petrochemical and general-industrial customers comply with environmental air-quality regulations. This division’s services include designing pollution-control equipment and providing engineering and project-management services. It also licenses technology. In the three months ended…