Our story
More than a decade of hard materials, leading to wind blades
The TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® machine has been built, tested and proven on real waste streams in Canada and the US. Each stage taught us something we now apply to retired wind turbine blades.
2013–2014 · Where it started
One machine, every material we could find
TORXX acquired the technology behind the TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® machine and built its first machine. At our original test and demonstration site in Barrie, Ontario, we ran it on organics, paper, wood, tires, electronics, glass and mixed waste.
The lesson: a single machine could size-reduce very different materials, without knives or hammers to replace.
2015–2018 · Testing and refinement
Built to last, one test at a time
Testing continued at TSN, a test and processing site at Grand Environmental Recycling in Ohsweken, Ontario, and at an organics site in California. Trials on glass, wood, stumps and compost led to a redesigned, heavy-duty machine: tougher wear parts, better airflow control and a modular build.
A patent program launched alongside, protecting the technology as it matured.
2018 · First commercial system
A cement plant’s search for a better fuel
St Marys Cement, part of Votorantim Cimentos, wanted a low-carbon alternative fuel for its kiln in Bowmanville, Ontario. After meeting us at Waste Expo Canada in 2015, its team weighed conventional shredders but chose TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® technology for the particle size and shape it could produce.
U-Pak’s McPherson transfer station in Pickering, 25 minutes from the plant, was selected to process the fuel. Our first complete commercial processing line went in there in 2018. It reduced construction and demolition waste wood in one pass to ±½-inch particles, a size and shape matched to the kiln, and supplied about 100 tons a day to the cement plant on a just-in-time basis.
“In one pass, the TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® [machine] can give us the fuel sizing we need. Shredders have high maintenance costs… and cannot handle foreign metal objects, such as nails, nuts, and bolts.”
Ruben Plaza, Corporate Environmental Manager, Votorantim Cimentos North America
U-Pak in operation
2020 · Into the US
Commercial operation in California
At Advance Disposal Co. in Hesperia, California, our redesigned, heavy-duty TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® machine went into commercial service, processing municipal solid waste fines at an existing facility.
In 2021, TORXX Kinetic, Inc. was formed in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to serve a growing US customer base.
2020 · Our test site
A place to prove it on your material
In partnership with Greenwaste Recycling, we built our own test site in Cartersville, Georgia, home to a second machine of the same heavy-duty design. Customers watch the machine run on their own material, and we have tested C&D fines, shingles, gypsum, glass, plastics and more.
Our core patents entered the national phase in key countries.
2024 · New markets
The technology goes to work in new industries
Flooring
We rebuilt our original machine from U-Pak and sold it to a flooring recycler.
Glass
Our newest design made its debut at a glass processor in Ontario, where the TORXX Kinetic Pulverizer® machine makes a fine glass powder that replaces part of the cement in concrete.
Asphalt shingles
After extensive trials at our test site, a shingle recycling project is in development.
New processing patent applications protect these markets.
2017 to today · Wind blades
Everything we learned, applied to blades
We first ran fiberglass through the machine in 2017. The same matter-on-matter impact that breaks down glass, gypsum and shingles frees glass fiber from resin in blade composite, without knives that dull on abrasive fiber.
Retired wind turbine blades are now our focus. How we recycle blades →
Have blades to retire?
Talk to us about your blade stockpile, repowering project or concrete application.