On Monday, October 11, the Pleasant Prairie Plan Commission approved a Conditional Use Permit, including Site and Operational Plans, for the Rust-Oleum Corporation to replace and relocate the indoor still system located at 8105 95th Street in LakeView Corporate Park. This project will replace Rust-Oleum’s indoor still system with a new outdoor system on the west side of the building. The still system is used in Rust-Oleum's paint manufacturing process to recover solvent for reuse and reduce waste volume.
The still is a hot oil system that uses a heating process to recover solvent. Natural gas heats the oil, and a chiller system condenses the reclaimed solvent for reuse. The process reduces waste volume by boiling the needed solvent from waste materials to concentrate solid waste and recover the solvent used for cleaning equipment. The new outdoor still operation will be placed on a concrete pad, under a canopy roof that includes the still, oil heating system, chiller for condensing, and receivers to facilitate smooth material transfers. In addition, Rust-Oleum will install all necessary pipe racks above ground between the building and the new still area.
Rust-Oleum manufactures protective paints and produces various water-based and solvent-based coatings for home and industrial use. The Pleasant Prairie plant stores bulk raw material in storage tanks that stock liquid solvents and resins. In addition, powder raw materials, such as color pigments, are stored in the receiving warehouse portion of the plant. These two raw materials are mixed in tanks of varying sizes to make the finished paint product. The finished product is then filled and packaged on the plant's filling lines into half-pint cans, quart cans, one-gallon cans, five-gallon pails, or aerosol spray cans.