Hazardous Waste Facility

Safety

Quality

Production

Cost

Sustainability and resource management

Rebuilt 2 drying units to eliminate leaking of hazardous materials on to the ground to avoid high dollar fines.  

Changed level control on a unit to eliminate hazardous boil over of batches.

Installed new receiving dock, improving safety and saving space within the plant which opened roads to increase receiving of tanker trucks.  This increased production 2%.

Changed SOP’s for utilizing waste in recipe creation to avoid going over the holding time limit.

Changed SOP for filter press to lower water content and reduce drying time of batches 30%.

Changed SOP’s for communication between units to increase overall plant efficiency by 7%.

Changed SOP’s for receiving waste into plant to allow waste to be used quicker to keep production moving. This increased production in the plant 2%.  

Changed SOP and clean out schedule of a production line to increase production 12%.

Implemented resin regeneration production line increasing plant revenue 3%.

Changed neutralization strategy of batch reactors for wastewater to reduce time to get within discharge limits by 10%.

Changed batch production strategy to reduced cleanouts of tanks and increase use of cheaper alternative abundant material increasing uptime 5% and decreasing raw material costs 13%.

Replaced scrap steel vendor to reduce this raw material costs 30%.

Implemented use of waste rail cars of caustic to reduce cost 22% instead of using virgin caustic.