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- Ambipar Emergency Response provides environmental crisis management, emergency response, and industrial field services to corporate clients worldwide. The company offers emergency response for chemical and pollutant incidents; firefighting including industrial, wildfire, and aerial operations; spill response for oil and hazardous materials; medical and rescue services with pre-hospital care and evacuation; marine and onshore/offshore environmental emergencies across road, rail, airport, pipeline, and natural disaster scenarios; biological emergency management for epidemics and pandemics; consulting on accident prevention and environmental licensing; and specialized training programs. Operations span 40 countries across all continents with over 500 bases, more than 20,000 employees, and a network including an Emergency Control and Management Center, headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, as a subsidiary of Ambipar Participações e Empreendimentos S.A., founded in 1995. Recent developments include a strategic management reorganization in June 2025 to strengthen governance and support global expansion; the filing of its Form 20-F annual report in June 2025 covering fiscal year 2024; Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filed on October 20, 2025, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas amid parent company proceedings in Brazil citing financial irregularities; and initiation of NYSE American delisting proceedings in October 2025.