Nuprecon, a demolition company based in Snoqualmie, is merging with Brea, Calif.-based CST Environmental to create the second-largest technical demolition company in the United States The new firm will have market reach from the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii down through California and across the South.

The new company will be known as Nuprecon/CST Holdings, but each branch will operate under its own name. The firm is majority-owned by Evergreen Pacific Partners, a Seattlebased private equity firm that owned Nuprecon. Nuprecon president John Hennessy says the merger will allow the combined company to provide a wider variety of services, such as rolling out Nuprecon's ReNu recycling services in CST's markets in the South. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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