MAXSAFE’s 
Initiative
The culture and mindset of our entire organization is to reduce the carbon footprint and offer products that meet or exceed national standards. As a GREEN-minded company, MAXSAFE Antifreeze is structured to consider the environment first when taking on any new project. We are proud to offer GREEN3 to our clientele:
GREEN Corporation
From the top down GREEN3 philosophies are emphasized and practiced throughout all of our operations, practices and decision making - creating a truly “GREEN” culture within the organization.
GREEN Manufacturing Process
Maximizing efficiencies, reducing consumption of utilities and natural resources is always considered in all of our manufacturing processes in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint and our impact on our natural resources and the environment.
GREEN Product
Our re-manufacturing process produces a premium quality product while generating 20% of the carbon footprint required to manufacture virgin antifreeze.
Environmental Sustainability at RECYCLE TECHNOLOGIES
As a “leading edge” recycler of antifreeze for most of the last 2 decades with clients that include major corporations, fleet operators, car dealers, utilities and an array of repair and quick lube facilities, Recycle Technologies (RTI), dba MAXSAFE, considers itself to be in a “green” industry. It recycles a product that takes a lot of energy to produce, and which can be detrimental to the environment if improperly disposed. RTI’s existing recycling process generates only one fifth of the greenhouse gases generated by producing virgin antifreeze.
In 2007, RTI installed a distillation process in order to upgrade the quality of RTI’s recycled antifreeze, which now meets or exceeds Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and ASTM specifications. Distillation has allowed RTI to recycle a larger variety of antifreeze waste streams. It has also allowed RTI to provide a more environmentally friendly high quality alternative to virgin antifreeze.
RTI is licensed by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and has always complied with or exceeded EPA and OSHA requirements. We have now embarked on the next stage of improving our environmental business practices. We hired Skiba Consulting (www.skibaconsulting.com) to do a high level assessment of our company’s environmental impact and develop a sustainable business plan. The initial phase of the plan is expected to be implemented by Fall of 2010.
The largest expected impacts are in the areas of decreasing electrical, gas and water usage in manufacturing. The objectives include:
- Decrease greenhouse gas emissions per gallon produced by 15%.
- Decrease electricity used per gallon produced by 10%.
- Decrease gas used per gallon produced by 15%.
- Decrease truck diesel used per gallon produced by 10%.
- Decrease water used per gallon produced by 50%.
- Reduce utility costs (gas, electric, water) per gallon produced by 20%.
To download RTI’s full Environmental Sustainability Report click here.
Some of the GREEN initiatives completed, in process or planned for the future are as follows:
- Install high-efficiency lighting. (Partially Completed)
- Add Variable Frequency Drive to cooling tower fan motor. (Complete)
- Get expert assessment of electrical use in the plant. (Complete)
- Install equipment to improve electrical efficiency at major pumps and motors. (engineered and planned to be completed 3rd quarter of 2009)
- Install mechanical system to remove scaling in the cooling tower to reduce water usage and eliminate (or at least minimize) use of chemicals (Completed)
- Engineer and install system to re-circulate cooling water for vacuum pump used in pre-treatment process to reduce water usage (Engineered and partially installed)
- Review and modify product transfer plumbing to improve flow and efficiency to reduce pump loads and to shorten pumping cycles. (Future)
- Install heat recovery system to transfer heat generated in distillation process to heat tanks of incoming antifreeze (Partially engineered — to be installed 3rd quarter of 2009)
- Explore opportunities for more efficient scheduling for distillation process. (In Process)
