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At a Glance
Company: Vexor Technology
Principals: Phil Stapf, Fred Stapf, Joe Waters and Steve Berry
Headquarters: Medina, Ohio
Year Established: 1999
No. of Employees: 40
Website: vexortechnology.com
Services Provided: Customizable solutions for companies concerned with protecting the environment, including the Vexor Engineered Fuel program, waste-to-energy, product destruction and advanced recycling solutions
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Vexor Technology Inc.® is a Medina, Ohio-based company that manufactures an engineered fuel made from various nonhazardous waste streams. Vexor Engineered Fuel® is created by processing nonhazardous industrial and commercial materials that traditionally hold no value and have historically been disposed. Vexor incorporates preapproved waste streams, including solids, liquids and sludges that meet fuel criteria. These qualified wastes are processed to produce what Vexor calls a homogenous, consistent fuel for use as a coal substitute.
Standing Out
Vexor Technology Inc. started in 1999 as a nonhazardous industrial facility focusing on landfill disposal, oil recycling and wastewater treatment. In 2001, Vexor began looking for a more sustainable disposal option—one that would be more environmentally sound.
Drawing upon management’s vast experience with fuel blending, Vexor formulated a waste-to-energy fuel using nonhazardous waste. After three successful years of production, the company was approached to develop a solid nonhazardous fuel to replace coal for a precalciner cement kiln. Since then, the company says it has taken this fuel manufacturing technique and made it more efficient, catering to multiple types of coal-burning kilns. Vexor Engineered Fuel has successfully undergone tests and trials and has received permits at various kilns all over the country, says the company.
The fuel contains significantly lower mercury and sulfur when compared with traditional coal. Environmental benefits to the end user include but are not limited to stack test emission results showing a reduction in nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide emissions when used to replace coal in cement and lime kilns and combustion furnaces.
Looking Ahead
Vexor says it is always changing to keep up with the demands of its customers and to offer them new and innovative solutions. The company says it analyzes every inbound waste stream so it can present its customers with a variety of sustainable options. This multilevel sustainability program, called the Vexor PositiveEffect Sustainability Movement, is designed to allow customers to decide how sustainable they want to be.
Vexor recently entered into a long-term agreement with Carmeuse Lime & Stone, a global producer of lime, to use Vexor Engineered Fuel in two lime kilns at its plant in Grand River, Ohio. The Grand River facility has been permitted and consuming Vexor Engineered Fuel since 2011 and is currently undergoing significant capital upgrades to consume up to 65,000 tons per year of the fuel.