Powermaster Technologies is tackling one of the world’s largest hidden waste streams and turning it into profit and green energy. The company鈥檚, ReCyclone, is cleaning up and processing millions of discarded railroad ties sitting unused along rail lines and converting them into biomass fuel now sold to power plants generating renewable electricity.
Across the U.S., an estimated 20鈥�25 million railroad ties are replaced each year, creating stockpiles of over 1 billion pounds of waste wood. Traditionally, these treated ties were left to rot beside tracks or buried in landfills, costing rail operators millions in disposal fees. The ReCyclone changes that.
Using high-speed vertical attrition technology, the ReCyclone can process up to 300 tons per hour, generating over 360,000 tons of usable biomass fuel per year from a single unit. At a conservative market price of $70 per ton, this translates to roughly $25 million in biomass revenue annually per unit not including the millions saved in avoided landfill costs.
鈥淭here are literally millions of tons of railroad ties across America just waiting to be reclaimed,鈥� said Haiku York, Founder and CEO of Powermaster. 鈥淲ith the ReCyclone, we鈥檙e cleaning them up, converting them into green fuel, and creating significant economic value for the rail industry and our energy partners.鈥�
The biomass produced by the ReCyclone can co-fire with coal or be used in dedicated biomass power plants, providing enough energy to power tens of thousands of homes per year while reducing landfill waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Powermaster鈥檚 innovative approach demonstrates that environmental responsibility and profitability can go hand-in-hand, transforming industrial waste into clean energy and tangible financial returns.