Benefits for Food and Beverage Manufacturers

Integration of Oberon’s process can provide significant value to a host facility [more on Process].  This value can be represented in classic economic terms, but can also extend towards less easily quantified, though meaningful benefits. 

• Elimination of Hard Costs:  Many food and beverage manufacturers utilize biological treatment as a means of cleaning water used in the process of producing consumer goods.  In so doing, water treatment facilities generate a waste sludge for which disposal is required, generally accomplished through a combination of on-site digestion and off-site transportation.  By employing Oberon’s process, it is possible to avoid the generation of waste sludge, and in so doing to eliminate the costs associated with digestion and transportation [more on Process]. 

• Avoidance of Soft Costs:  Where food and beverage manufacturers dispose of their waste sludge via the practice of land-farming, there is always a risk of generating negative public relations.  In contrast to land-farming, which involves the off-site transport of wet, potentially biologically active material, Oberon’s process occurs entirely on-site and results in the production of a dry, fully stabilized feed ingredient [more on Process]. 

• Recovery of Plant Capacity:  Some food and beverage manufacturers have appreciably increased production volumes at their sites subsequent to constructing their water treatment facilities.  In these cases, the manufacturer may risk operating its treatment facility at or above its designed capacity – stimulating discussion for expensive construction of new capacity.  Since Oberon’s process can eliminate the need for digestion operations, it may be possible to recover treatment capacity that otherwise must be reserved for digestion. 

• Advancement of Sustainability Initiatives:  Increasingly, manufacturers of consumer products can realize benefit by improving public perception with respect to corporate stewardship and sustainability.  Generation of Oberon’s product results in a substantial improvement over current practice for competing products on many levels, including:
  1. Efficient use of by-product resources from the host facility,
  2. Mitigated pressure on the marine environment, and
  3. Decreased global carbon footprint [more about the Benefits for Inclusion].