Solvents are expensive – expensive to purchase, expensive to store and expensive to dispose. This is especially true for petroleum-based solvents – as oil prices continue to rise, so do solvent costs.

Solvent recycling provides cost savings through:

     Reductions in purchases of new solvents due to re-use of existing solvent. Solvent recycling can enable a solvent user to re-use 90% or more or their solvent to be recycled, depending on the content and characteristics of their waste.
     Reductions in wastes and the associated handling costs for disposing of waste. Again, depending on the content and characteristics of the solvent/waste stream to be recycled, solvent recycling could reduce waste disposal by up to 90%.
     Reductions in storage costs of both solvents and wastes

For example, if a facility utilizes 150 gallons per month of a solvent such as xylene at an average cost of $12 per gallon, or $1,800, and disposal costs for that solvent aggregate $550 per month, that facility has hard costs of $2,350 per month for their solvent usage, plus storage, administration, etc. If solvent recycling is initiated, that facility could see their new solvent purchases reduced to $180 per month (or less) and average monthly solvent disposal costs reduced to $70 per month. In this example, comparable monthly solvent purchasing and disposal costs are reduced from $2,350 to $250 per month, which would create a breakeven on the solvent recycler capital cost in a matter of months.

CBG Technologies develops and manufactures solvent recycling and liquid waste minimization equipment for industrial and laboratory applications. We offer a broad range of sizes and configurations of solvent recycling equipment. Each of our solvent recyclers can be programmed to recycle a broad range of solvents.

Cost savings with CBG Technologies solvent recycling equipment can begin immediately, as do the associated environmental and regulatory compliance benefits.