Nexus W2V breaks ground on $70M AD facility in Indiana

Construction has begun on a $70 million plant in Kingsbury, Indiana, to convert organics into natural gas and compost. 

The plant will be owned and operated by Nexus W2V, a waste processing firm based in Greenville, South Carolina, and can process up to 200 tons of organic material for use in renewable natural gas production. 

According to company officials, the facility will produce enough natural gas to power more than 47,000 homes while reducing the amount of waste going into landfills.

“Indiana continues to lead the nation in attracting forward-thinking investments in energy and waste management solutions,” says State Rep. Jim Pressel of Rolling Prairie.

Nexus CEO Roshan Vani tells the South Bend Tribune that organic material will come from processors of edible products in the Chicagoland area whose food and ingredients never made it to stores because of spoilage or expiration. Supermarket chains in the region will also be a supplier of packaged foods such as cake mixes and cereal no longer available for sale.

Additionally, the company will work through brokers and directly with farmers, if necessary, to secure the rights to crops such as potatoes and pumpkins that never went to the market.

“We already have a network of great brokers that already are networked with haulers where we can figure out ways to come get large volumes of organic waste,” Vani says.

At the plant, workers will remove food from packaged items for processing in an anerobic digester. The methane created from the decomposition of the slurry will be captured and injected into existing NIPSCO natural gas pipelines. The remaining nutrient-rich solids will be extracted from the digester and dried before being processed into a biochar product.