Organic fertilizer producer SusGlobal Energy Corp., Toronto, said on Aug. 18 its wholly-owned subsidiary, SusGlobal Energy Canada I Ltd., has completed the agreement (GM June 4, p. 31) to purchase a 40,535 square foot facility on 3.26 acres in Hamilton, Ont., which includes Environmental Compliance Approval to process 65,884 mt/y of organic waste 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
The company also announced that it has retained ZAS Architects to design and develop the facility, and hopes to convert an industrial warehouse into a light-filled inspiring workplace. With the addition of a further 11,000 square feet of office space and R&D labs, the facility will also house the continued development of SusGlobal’s proprietary formulations and branded liquid and dry organic fertilizers.
The company expects production at the facility to begin in second-quarter 2022. It plans to produce its SusGro™, a pathogen-free organic liquid fertilizer, at the location. The company said it will process 100 mt/d of organic waste (three municipal trucks per day at approximately 33 mt) to produce 500,000 liters of fertilizer per day, five days per week, 52 weeks a year, for a total of 130 million liters per year. It said it can produce 5,000 liters per every mt of waste processed. The company values the fertilizer produced per day at $2 million.
In addition to producing, distributing, and warehousing the product, the company said it would do the same for other organic liquid fertilizer products that are provided under private label and sold through big box retailers and consumer lawn and garden suppliers, and for end use to the wine, cannabis, and agriculture industries.
SusGlobal’s first facility, which began operations in 2017 on 49 acres of company-owned land in Bellville, Ont., currently processes 70,000 mt/y of municipal source separated organics to produce 20,000 mt/y of dry fertilizer/organic compost.