If you need more information on Vacom's VCD2000 series system or you'd like to have a bench test run, please feel free to contact us.
Contacts:
| Jim Schleiffarth | (801) 440-2652 | jim@vacomllc.com |
| Larry Sanderson | (770) 490-8886 | |
| Brad Grava | (248) 417-5779 | |
| Robert Waits | (801) 362-4948 | rbwaits@vacomllc.com |
Company History
In 1995, Jim Schleiffarth joined the company as President, re-capitalized the business and developed the current generation of technology giving us the Vacom we know today. The business primarily served the metal working industry. A strategic alliance was also developed with Houghton Fluid Care to own and operate the technology while providing turnkey zero-discharge systems for such customers as Toyota and Caterpillar. By 2006, systems had been installed to manage complex waste streams in the mining, chemical, packaging and oil and gas production industries. In 2005, the intellectual property of Vacom was sold to 212 Resources. The IP rights were licensed back to Vacom to use the technology in systems outside the oil and gas drilling and production industry.
Management Profiles
James Schleiffarth - PRESIDENT
Since the late 1970s, Mr. Schleiffarth has been involved in the development, implementation, and operational management of separation technologies utilized as core service business offerings in the hazardous waste, water, and wastewater markets. In 1982, Mr. Schleiffarth raised venture capital and founded Tracker Services, Inc., that utilized filtration and solvent extraction technologies developed by Mr. Schleiffarth to treat oily emulsions generated by oil refineries and producers. In April 1988, Waste Management, Inc. acquired this business leading to a significant role in corporate wide commercialization of a wide range of technologies including waste-to-fuels programs. Mr. Schleiffarth served as an executive with Waste Management until 1993 when he became Executive Vice-President for Allwaste, Inc., responsible for four transport, storage, and disposal facilities located in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Dallas and Denver. In this role, Mr. Schleiffarth was introduced to Vacom founders and became a major stockholder and President in 1995. There, he modified the existing technology giving us the Vacom system we know today, which incorporates turbulent flow, and submerged boiling regimes within a mechanical vapor recompression evaporation system. In June 2004, Mr. Schleiffarth founded H2Oil Recovery Services (d/b/a 212 Resources) for the purpose of applying Vacom’s technology to oil field wastes and produced water.
Larry Sanderson - VP ENGINEERING
Mr. Sanderson is a professional chemical engineer with 30 years experience in the refining and chemical industries. His experience covers all aspects of design, construction and operations of chemical plants. After earning his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and his masters degree in forestry (pulp and paper) from Michigan Technological University in 1972 and 1973, respectively, Mr. Sanderson began his career doing refining plant start-ups worldwide for UOP, LLC. Since then he has worked in all phases of industrial plant design, construction startup and operations management for both operating companies and engineering companies. For the last six years, Mr. Sanderson has worked as a private consultant, providing engineering review, development work and other services. Prior to full-time services at Vacom, Mr. Sanderson became highly familiar with the VCD2000 system from his consulting role. Mr. Sanderson also works with the National Council for the Examination of Engineers and Surveyors developing the professional engineers exam for chemical engineers. Mr. Sanderson has 20 years of project management experience working with Lockwood Greene Engineers in Atlanta, Georgia and Norton Company in Akron, Ohio. He was responsible for design and construction projects using widely varying technologies in applications from refining to flavors to high purity polycrystalline silicon. Project sizes varied from $25,000 to over $50,000,000.
Brad Grava - VP CUSTOMER SERVICE
Mr. Grava received his environmental policy degree from Bowling Green University in 1994. He began his career with an environmental remediation firm where he managed and worked with a field crew that specialized in marine oil spill cleanups. Mr. Grava then worked for Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) as an on-site environmental manager at a Ford Motor Company stamping plant, located in Woodhaven, Michigan. While at the plant, Mr. Grava was instrumental in the implementation, management and maintenance of a Total Waste Management Program and an ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. When Vacom installed a VCD2000 system at the Ford Plant to recover water and oil from wastewater, Mr. Schleiffarth hired Mr. Grava at Vacom, where he has worked in customer support, training and business development. Mr. Grava had been co-owner of Pros Services, an industrial and environmental remediation service located in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Grava is certified and trained in OSHA, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), DOT and ISO 14000 Programs.