Ash Management and Marketing

Eco Material Technologies is North America’s leading supplier of fly ash and green cement for beneficial use in concrete production and the only marketer of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) with a national presence. Through its SynMat and LA Ash subsidiaries, Eco also markets synthetic gypsum and fluidized bed combustion ash, respectively. 

• Eco Material’s logistics network features 58 terminals, 4,000 railcars, and 400 trucks, providing unparalleled capabilities for bringing material to market quickly.
• Eco’s fleet of over 670 pieces of heavy mobile equipment includes bulldozers, excavators, dump trucks, forklifts, loaders, graders, railcar movers, service trucks, smooth drums, vacuum trucks, trailers, sweepers, tractors, and water trucks.
• Our customer base – comprising 6,000 unique locations served from 100+ sites across 46 states and Canada – purchases 10+ million tons of material annually and provides an established market for increasing material utilization.

Eco Material’s extensive infrastructure of rail and truck transportation, storage facilities, and knowledgeable people experienced in SCM distribution and marketing means greater market reach. This allows the shipment of SCMs to more distant markets and sales to a wider range of applications and manufacturers – including concrete, cement, and wallboard producers – with whom Eco Material has established customer relationships.

As the only SCM marketer with a national presence, the company enjoys advantages in both logistics and sales. Due to the volumes of material that the company moves, Eco Material is able to negotiate favorable rail rates on a national basis and enjoys similar purchasing power with trucking contractors where their services are required.

Materials Testing and Research
Eco Material’s Materials Testing & Research Facility (MTRF) is an AASHTO-accredited cementitious and concrete laboratory that tests more coal ash products than any other laboratory in the United States. The facility provides customers an array of concrete testing services for aggregates, cements, concrete alkali reactivity analysis, concrete sulfate testing, hardened concrete petrography, etc. Each year, the team processes more than 3,500 samples of coal combustion products, pozzolans, and building products. MTRF’s work is critical for providing technical services, quality assurance, and R&D for both produced and beneficiated coal combustion products. MTRF’s Technical Service Representatives are capable of working with customers to prepare and test concrete trial batches to demonstrate the value of using SCMs.

Plant Services
Eco Material’s Plant Services division is the largest disposal contractor in the United States for coal combustion residuals (CCRs). The division has over 30 years of experience constructing and operating landfills of all sizes up to 200 acres – providing services at over 100 utility sites and handling all types of CCRs as well as coal and limestone.

• Project Permitting and Compliance Audits. Eco Material’s experience includes the permitting process for storm water, wetlands, air, stream alteration, solid waste utilization, and all aspects of landfill permitting. We also perform facility compliance audits to ensure that operations are in accordance with applicable laws and permits. Operations audited include stabilization plants, material handling facilities, landfills, and various utilization projects.
• Wet-to-Dry Conversions. Eco Material helps utilities convert their plant’s ash handling system from a wet ash handling system for disposal to a dry system for fly ash and bottom ash sales. Our company’s vast experience in material handling systems, equipment, and engineering and design provides the utility with turnkey systems. Eco Material oversees the entire operation, coordinating the design, engineering, and construction of the conversion with all appropriate utility personnel. When the conversion is complete, the dry ash can be marketed for beneficial use.
• Engineering and Design Services. Our design experience covers systems that include dry material silos, pneumatic and dense phase transfer, baghouses, belt and screw conveyors, mixing, pelletization, screening, dewatering equipment, and related instrumentation and control systems. Eco also has engineering services capabilities for the design, procurement, and installation of bulk powder storage facilities and rail-to-truck terminals.
• Construction Management Services. Eco Material provides management of heavy construction projects, particularly in the field of solid waste disposal and land reclamation. Our industrial construction management services cover mechanical and vertical constructions for equipment modifications or new plant construction. Eco acts as the owner’s agent during civil or industrial construction projects to ensure that construction activity progresses smoothly and that the construction conforms to the design specifications.

To learn more about Eco Material’s portfolio of services, please view our Qualifications Summary.