Dynamic Recycling LLC, headquartered in Bristol, Tennessee, has announced plans to install equipment and upgrade its plant in Bristol to allow the company to boost its beer recycling and product destruction capabilities.
The company, which provides alcohol recycling and product destruction services, opened the distilled spirits plant one year ago. The plant uses a distillation process to recycle fuel grade ethanol in various commercial and industrial waste streams that contain alcohol such as cosmetics or beer. The company is capable of solvent and alcohol recycling as well, but Dynamic says that ethanol recycling is its strategic focus.
"We have had to overcome many obstacles this year, but that is to be expected with the first year of a plant of this magnitude and complexity. But we overcame the challenges and, in the process, made the plant more efficient and safe," says Brian Potter, Dynamic’s chief operations officer. "Now we are focused on streamlining our beer recycling and product destruction operations."
After fine tuning the distilled spirits plant, Dynamic Recycling is focusing on developing plans to install beer recycling and product destruction infrastructure in Bristol. The beer disposal and product destruction is currently taking place at the company's other location in Abingdon, Virginia, and the bulk liquids are transported to Bristol where the alcohol recycling takes place.
"We want the beer recycling operations to be at Bristol so that we do not have any unnecessary transportation costs, but we had to make sure the plant was operating correctly. We cannot do any beer recycling if the ethanol recycling process is not functioning," says Ron Potter, president and CEO. "The company is capable of processing six full loads of beer a day and we would like to double that capacity."
Dynamic Recycling also destroys and recycles out-of-date products such as cosmetics, wine, spirits, perfume, pharmaceuticals and industrial ethanol wastes. The company also takes in waste material in drums and tankers.
Eric Reinstein, Dynamics’ vice president of sales, notes the company has 4-5 different streams of product typically coming through their door. He says the expansion can’t be completed soon enough as the business has seen a significant increase in interest from its growing list of potential customers. “We have had to turn away business,” he notes.
When the expansion is complete, the company hopes to increase its annual production from around 1 million tons per year to 3 million tons per year, according to Reinstein.