Maria Stein, Ohio — Amiran Technologies will be building a $12 million manure processing plant to help keep farm runoff from polluting nearby Grand Lake St. Mary. Amiran, an Oak Creek, Wisc., green technology company, describes the plant as a revolutionary undertaking to process swine, poultry, and dairy livestock manure into dry organic fertilizer for commercial sale. The product will be pathogen and e coli free and will be priced competitively with commercial fertilizers on the market. “Amiran’s AG Conversions Division will be breaking ground this spring for the new 30,000-square foot plant and a 7,000-square foot visitor and research center on a 10-acre site on Highway 127 south of Celina,” said Paul Chadwick, the company’s executive vice president of business development. Chadwick was on hand at a workshop recently to discuss the project with a group of area farmers and officials in Maria Stein. Chadwick said the plant will employ about 60 full-time workers and about another 180 indirect workers. They hope to start production this August. According to Amiran, the facility will be the only one of its kind in the world, representing the upstream component of the company’s two-tiered plan to help clean up the watershed. The company is also proceeding to have a mobile facility that will turn the material dredged from the lake and currently stored on state owned or leased land into high quality, organic potting soil for sale to the public. “This technology is so new and proprietary, we hope to replicate this in other areas of the country and world where waterways are polluted,” Chadwick said. No details were available on the technology, but the announcement stated that the AG Conversions Grand Lake St. Marys watershed facility will have the capacity to produce close to 600,000 tons of dry organic fertilizer each year. Since this is cutting-edge technology developed by Dr. Mohsen Amiran, the company’s chief scientific officer, to mitigate and minimize the harmful effects of phosphorus from farm manure runoff on the health of lakes and streams with the goal of reducing the toxic blue-green algae blooms, it is the goal of the company’s visitor and research center to attract and educate people from around the world who are seeking solutions to similar environmental problems. Amiran Technologies, LLC, is an innovative technology development company specializing in providing ecologically sound, cost effective solutions for the decontamination and beneficial reuse of industrial and agricultural waste streams worldwide. Amiran targets contaminated soil and sediment remediation, metal recovery from process wastes, flame retardants, agricultural products from livestock waste streams, and industrial cleaners.
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