Clearwater Service Partners acquires and grows exceptional commercial and industrial water treatment businesses that service cooling towers, boilers, and closed loops. We offer a long-term home for operators who have built something worth protecting.
Recurring chemical treatment, scale and corrosion control, microbiological management, and Legionella risk mitigation. From hospital central plants to data center condenser loops, certified, documented, and on schedule.
ASHRAE 188 CompliantPre-treatment, oxygen scavenging, pH and alkalinity control, and sludge conditioning programs for low-pressure, high-pressure, and steam-generating systems. The compliance partner facilities teams rely on year after year.
Recurring ProgramFlushing, passivation, and ongoing treatment of hydronic heating and chilled water loops. Recurring inhibitor dosing, side-stream filtration, and corrosion coupon monitoring keep systems clean and efficient for decades.
System LongevityWater management plans, Legionella risk assessments, ASHRAE 188 documentation, and recurring analytical testing. The regulatory work that keeps building owners, engineers, and public health officials confident in every system.
ASHRAE 188 & CDC CertifiedToo many acquisitions treat people like line items. We built Clearwater around the opposite belief: that great water treatment companies are built by great chemists, great service technicians, and great account managers, and our job is to honor that. When you sell your water treatment business to Clearwater, nothing that matters gets torn apart.
We don't restructure what made you successful. Your service techs, chemists, and account managers keep their jobs, their tenure, and their customer relationships. We build around them.
In almost every case, your company keeps its name. Your customers continue working with the brand they've trusted for years. We operate behind the scenes.
We are not buying your business to flip it. We are building a long-term home for the operators who built this industry, and we intend to hold it that way.
Route consistency, technician retention, and client relationships are not soft metrics. They are the business. We invest in the people who drive them.
We bring professional tools: service reporting platforms, route optimization, recruiting infrastructure, and technical backstop from industry leaders. We take the admin burden off your team, not the work.
LOI within two weeks of alignment. Diligence and close typically within 60 to 90 days. No drama, no surprises. We move when there is conviction.
If you own a commercial or industrial water treatment company and you are thinking about what comes next, we want to be the first call you make. We are a dedicated acquirer of water treatment businesses, not a broker, not a marketplace, and not a financial buyer who will strip your company down. We acquire and grow.
Whether you are thinking about retirement, a transition to a new chapter, or simply exploring your options, we want to understand what you have built and what matters most to you. No pressure and no obligation in a first conversation.
Talk to Us →The people who built the water treatment industry deserve a buyer who understands what they built, and why the chemistry and the service relationships matter as much as the revenue.
Clearwater Service Partners was co-founded by Christian Ostberg and Lucas Li, two operators who believe every business transition deserves the same care, strategy, and focus as a perfectly planned shot. We partner with founders ready to transition out of the day-to-day and preserve what they built.
Christian leads deal origination and post-close operations at Clearwater. With a background as a leader across organizations of all shapes and sizes, he brings a disciplined, hands-on approach to partnering with business owners, grounded in the belief that bringing a new partner into your business is one of the most important moves you will ever make.
Based in Salt Lake City, Christian is the primary point of contact for sellers from first call to close, and remains engaged in the business long after the deal is done.
Lucas leads deal structuring, capital strategy, and diligence at Clearwater. He brings analytical rigor, a long-term orientation, and a straightforward, no-bankers approach that sellers consistently tell us is the reason they chose to work with us rather than a traditional buyer.
Lucas works alongside Christian as a true partnership. Every seller gets both of us, on every conversation that matters.
We listen first. We want to understand your business, your team, and what a good outcome looks like before we talk about numbers.
If there is alignment, we move to a non-binding LOI within two weeks. Key terms laid out clearly with no ambiguity and no surprises.
We conduct focused, respectful diligence. We confirm what you have shared. This is not adversarial. It is a collaboration.
Typically 60 to 90 days from LOI. We handle the complexity. You focus on your business until the day it transfers.
Advancing an owner's legacy is a privilege. We do right by our partners, their teams, and their customers in good times and in bad.
Route consistency, technician retention, and customer relationships are not soft metrics. They are the moat. We invest accordingly.
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of chemistry, compliance, and service quality. Certified, documented, and accountable.
We say what needs to be said. We do what we say we will do. The operators we work with deserve nothing less than that.
We are not buying businesses to flip them. We are building a platform we intend to hold for a decade or more. That changes everything.
We show up to learn. The operators who built this industry know things we don't. We ask questions before we make decisions.
Whether you are ready to sell your water treatment company, exploring your options, or simply curious about what we are building, we would like to hear from you. Confidential. No obligation. One conversation.
Clearwater Service Partners is an acquirer of commercial and industrial water treatment companies across the United States. If you are looking to sell your water treatment business, sell your cooling tower service company, or find a buyer for your ASHRAE 188 compliance services firm, we are the buyer you have been looking for.
We buy water treatment businesses directly, without brokers, without auctions, and without the uncertainty of a marketplace listing. We are a dedicated buyer focused exclusively on the water treatment sector, including cooling tower treatment, boiler water treatment, closed loop systems, and compliance and testing services.
We are focused on acquiring commercial and industrial water treatment businesses generating between $1 million and $50 million in annual revenue. We are most interested in operators with recurring service contracts, technically credentialed field teams, and customers across healthcare, data centers, higher education, manufacturing, commercial real estate, and institutional portfolios. We also acquire adjacent service lines such as Legionella risk management, water management planning, and industrial water testing as part of a broader water treatment platform.
We acquire water treatment businesses across the United States, with particular interest in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Mountain West, and Pacific regions. If you own a commercial or industrial water treatment company and are considering a sale, contact us for a confidential conversation with no obligation.