Chemical Recycling Services
Altiras offers chemical recycling services for solvents, non-FDA-compliant hand sanitizer, ethanol, acetic acid, other organic acids, and other chemical and petroleum products. Recycling can be mobile, on-site, or off-site. Altiras offers comprehensive chemical recycling services with expert evaluation, regulatory and technical guidance, and laboratory analysis. We provide tailored recommendations to meet your specific needs.
Mobile Recycling involves bringing a mobile recycling unit to your site to perform on-site recycling. Truck-mounted units deploy solely when recycling is necessary. Mobile Recycling offers an effective solution for low to medium boiling point chemicals, solvents, or other materials that a single-stage still or “pot-still” can recover to adequate quality. This is especially possible when volumes range from 50,000 to 200,000 gallons/year. Paint and printing solvents often fit this model. Altiras provides all properly trained personnel and equipment to perform Mobile Recycling services at highly competitive rates.
On-Site Chemical Recycling involves the custom design, construction, and installation of a recycling unit at your facility. Highly trained, professional operators from Altiras operate the unit and will comply with your site procedures. On-Site Recycling is most effective with simple processes and recovered product values near $1 million/year. This is common with paint or printing solvents exceeding 200,000 gallons/year, provided air permits and fire codes allow.
Altiras can custom design, construct, finance, and operate recycling facilities or manufacturing facilities that fully utilize your coproducts, byproducts, and used materials. This solution is ideal when no viable options exist for reuse or recycling, the economic benefit can be substantially improved, or the equipment has to be highly specialized. The combination of cost avoidance and potential revenue generation should exceed $2-3 million/year to have a chance at economic viability. For more information visit our Commercialization Research Page.
Altiras can facilitate Off-Site Recycling through specific relationships it has developed with 3rd Party processors. Alternatively, we can perform recycling at a site with units that Altiras has designed and built for your products and needs.
For Off-Site Recycling at 3rd Party locations, Altiras offers tremendous value by:
- Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the 3rd Party recyclers and toll processors
- By coordinating logistics
- By understanding the regulatory issues as they vary state-to-state
- Offering off-take agreements for the recycled product or co-products that generators do not want to reuse themselves.
