About

PESCO-BEAM provides custom, reliable, affordable state of the art systems:

• The recovery of liquid byproducts, including: Industrial solvents, used motor oil, used antifreeze and other glycols.
• The production of alternative fuels from a variety of feedstocks, including ethanol, bio-diesel and methanol.
• Systems that are turnkey, transportable, portable, state of the art, custom engineered, computerized.
• We offer systems for: distillation, fabrication, molecular sieve, filtration, batch and continuous processes.
• Soil remediation, using M-1 Infrared Technology.

Company History

The principals of PESCO-BEAM have built and operated ethanol production facilities since 1980. These facilities were located in Floyd, VA. At peak production, two of the companies processed and sold over 12 million gallons per year of anhydrous fuel ethanol blended with gasoline in service stations such as Racetrack, Wilco, Citgo, and others throughout the Mid-Atlantic States of the USA.

The companies were in business from 1980 to 1992, after which falling crude oil prices and low gasoline rack prices reduced the demand for ethanol. Around the same time the demand for solvent and oil recovery systems was growing and in 1991, Pragmatic Environmental Solutions Company [PESCO] was formed.

PESCO met the increasing demand with on-site, reasonably priced, skid mounted solvent and oil recovery systems. Over the next 15 years PESCO grew from its modest beginnings to a company with international recognition. Today PESCO systems are recycling everything from acetone to xylene and motor oil, in locations ranging from Australia to Virginia.

PESCO merged with its long term fabrication and engineering partners BEAM Engineering to form the new international PESCO-BEAM Environmental Solutions Company Inc. PESCO and BEAM have been working together successfully for over 12 years to design and build numerous, solvent recovery and oil recovery systems.