The IRM Difference
For over 25 years, Innovative Resource Management has helped manufacturers, refineries, and chemical companies across the United States transform surplus inventory, off-specification materials, and process residuals into revenue streams. Whether you're dealing with tank bottoms, production overruns, reformulated products, aged inventory, or material that no longer meets your specifications, IRM finds productive reuse applications that eliminate disposal costs and generate returns. From rapid emergency tank cleanouts to ongoing partnerships for co-product streams, we handle quantities ranging from truckload lots to full railcar and barge shipments. Here are real examples of how we've helped companies like yours turn waste management challenges into profitable solutions.
Turning Costs into Revenue...
Facing a disposal cost in excess of seven figures, a large petroleum refinery in the Gulf Coast reached out to IRM for the purpose of disposing of 40,000 barrels of off-specification tank bottoms in a tank that had stratified. IRM was able to purchase the material for re-use, allowing the refinery to turn their cost into revenue they had not foreseen.
... & Residuals into Returns
IRM was able to find a secondary market for 36 truckloads of surplus Calcium Carboxylate chemical additive from a customer which would otherwise have been very costly to dispose of. Instead of paying disposal costs, our customer was able to turn a profit on their specialty chemical residuals.
Waste? No. Margins? Yes.
IRM has played a strategic role in helping a national pharmaceutical manufacturing company in fulfilling its promise to stay "Zero Landfill" by finding productive reuse alternatives to hazardous waste disposal that support their corporate sustainability goals.
Rapid. Responsible.
In 2024, IRM placed 35 railcars of Light Cycle Oil and sour diesel fuel over the span of 6 weeks. This allowed one customer to turn a tidy profit on petroleum products they no longer had use for in the timeframe they needed it removed, while another IRM customer was able to obtain the bulk railcar quantities at the price they were looking for.
Eco-Friendly.
Also in 2024, IRM was able to assist a customer in safely and conscientiously disposing of 33 truckloads of unusable industrial waste materials at a fraction of the typical hazardous material disposal cost.
You have Surplus. We have a Solution.
Upon losing their previous outlet and after trying unsuccessfully to offload a hard-to-move chemical residue stream into a new market, a chemical manufacturer reached out to IRM. Within 48 hours, IRM had the material approved and the first shipment loaded. Today, we have a strong, ongoing partnership with the manufacturer for their production residuals.
Niche Market? No Problem.
A customer in the coatings industry reached out to IRM needing a specific grade of aged nitrocellulose specialty chemical to use for coatings on musical instruments. Within two weeks, we were able to source the drums of material our new customer needed at low cost in the small quantities they required.
Your By-Products are Our Business.
IRM has taken a chemical byproduct being used in a fuel oil blend to being a key feedstock for an oil and gas application, thereby vastly increasing the value-added potential of the material in the market.