Veransa Group recently hosted a group of almost 50 participants from the Compost Research and Education Foundation (CREF) Compost Operations Manager Training Course (COTC) at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for organic compost, mulches, and soils in Seffner Florida. This newly modernized 53-acre facility is also used to collect and recycle green and wood waste, which the company processes into highest quality organic products, including its REGEN Florida Organic Compost®, REGEN Composted Organic Mulch®, and REGEN-Turf ® for turf revitalization.
The facility tour included insights into the newly constructed site design, low-carbon emissions compost production procedures, as well as cutting edge equipment, such as the massive, Bacchus A75 compost windrow turner…the largest windrow turner in the world. Veransa’s Seffner site has the only Bacchus A75 in the East Coast of the United States.
Other top-of-the-line equipment on display was the Sparta turnkey grinding system that includes an electric West Salem grinder and a Sparta feed system. At the system’s back end is a Sparta screening system composed of two Komtech screens, allowing much greater throughputs and consistent product output quality than the traditional trommel screens used by most competitors. This combination of high-end equipment allows Veransa provide top quality, consistently sized and textured, compost and mulch products, while also reducing the company carbon footprint.
Visitors included members of the CREF, teams from various state Departments of Environmental Protection, including Florida and Oklahoma, as well as members of the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agriculture (IFAS) Extension, Colorado State University, and the Hillsborough County Department of Solid waste. Also present were teams from other compost manufacturing and waste management companies, such as Atlas Organics, Denali Water Solutions, Southeast Soils, Indianhead Biomass and Soils, and Compost USA.
“The site was impressive, to say the least. I would call it a model for how a composting site should be setup when given the proper resources to be successful”, said Zachary Villanova from Indianhead Biomass and Soils. “It’s also great to see electric equipment being used as opposed to traditional diesel”.
“We were delighted to have the opportunity to host such a diverse group of thought-leaders from our industry at our Seffner facility which was modernized to be a flagship example of sustainable production at industrial scale,” saif Roger Johansson, Chairman of Veransa Group.
About Veransa:
Veransa (www.veransa.com) is a zero-waste leader in transforming urban wood and yard waste into valuable beneficial re-use products on an industrial scale. Veransa vertically integrates green and wood waste collection and recycling centers with organic products manufacturing facilities to achieve highest-value use, waste-to-organic commodities production. Veransa aggregates green waste and transforms it, using electrically powered processing equipment, into beneficial re-use products, including superior-quality, soil-regenerating, organic compost that is OMRI Listed®, STA approved, and free of biosolids, manure or food waste. The company is unique in producing superior quality certified organic compost on an industrial scale in Southwest and Central Florida. Its organic compost is the main ingredient in all of Veransa’s blended soil products. Veransa also processes wood waste into feedstock for mulch and renewable energy. Veransa is an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) portfolio company of RFE Investment Partners.
About RFE:
RFE Investment Partners (www.rfeip.com) is a private equity firm focused on making control investments in established small market companies located in the United States. RFE is a long-standing Connecticut-based firm founded in 1980 with over 40 years of experience investing in the lower middle market. RFE’s investment strategy is to transform its portfolio companies from the lower end of the market to fully professionalized and market leading middle market companies. RFE is currently investing out of Fund IX.
