

ADI was incorporated in mid 1992 and started blending and marketing
industrial grade ethyl alcohol in September of the same year. Tolling
arrangements were utilized until the ADI production facility was started up
in December 1994. The plant is located on the Cape Fear River in Leland, N.C.
The original business objective was, and still is, to process and manufacture low
molecular weight and relatively benign organic liquids. This has now been
extended to include various blending operations.
The basic services available are distillation, dehydration, reaction, carbon treating
and blending. The operation is supported by the following:
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Tank farm consisting of more that seventy tanks ranging from 3,000 to 250,000 gallon capacity
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Truck and barge access; a truck scale is on site. A rail system is presently out for major repairs.
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Non – hazardous water treating plant adjacent to the ADI facility
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The company maintains all required EPA permits and is fully permitted by the Alcohol and Tobacco
Tax and Trade Bureau (formerly the BATF). The OSHA required Process Safety
Management program (PSM) is fully implemented and current; all OSHA training
programs including "Hazwhopper" and TSCA are current. Yearly audits by major
tolling customers help keep ADI current on new regulations.
The talents and support services of the owner operators have been critical to
ADI's success. The members and resumes are:
Andy Simmons President and construction director. The present ADI site
(6 acres) was purchased from Mr. Simmons's 60 acre site on the Cape Fear River
where he operates his industrial contract business. Mr. Simmons started his
company in 1970. The proximity of the construction company is key to the ability
that ADI has to retro fit the plant when necessary to quickly service a client's needs.
Will Oliver Marketing, technical & operations director Mr. Oliver is a chemical engineer with
30 years of petro chemical plant design, construction, maintenance and operations
experience. Prior to the formation of ADI he founded and directed the engineering,
construction, start up and operation of a fuel grade ethanol plant in the U.S.
Virgin Islands.
Larry Rosetti Quality control and research manager. Mr. Rosetti has a masters
degree in organic chemistry and has 30 years experience in the operations and
development of numerous chemical processes. Mr. Rosetti and Mr. Oliver work
together to evaluate and to develop new business opportunities.
Barry White Plant manager. Mr. White has 17 years of plant operations and
management experience.
Hugh Croom S H & E, construction & maintenance manager, Mr. Croom has 31
years of plant operation experience with his prior position as plant manager of a
large caustic chlorine plant.
The key service that differentiates ADI from most other chemical processing and
tolling companies is the ability to develop solutions to problems that clients bring
and to design, fabricate and install the equipment necessary to implement the
solution; this has generated the bulk of ADI's tolling business.
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