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When beer goes bad, what do you do with it? One answer: turn it into renewable energy via natural gas. “What if that beer itself was recycled?” Synthica Energy CEO Sam Schutte asked. “We get the beer out of the cans, turn it into natural gas, and recycle the aluminum.” Every day, tons of waste go into landfills. Synthica is banking on the idea that waste could be recycled and sold to industrial customers. The Cincinnati-based company will apply an anaerobic digestion process to organic industrial byproducts to produce renewable natural gas. That natural gas would then be injected into existing pipeline infrastructure and distributed to customers. An added benefit, Schutte said, is that the metaphorical wasted beer, along with other organic

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The Rome-Floyd County Development Authority announced Thursday that they received a grant from the Rome Area Heritage Foundation in the amount of $3,000. The money will be used to fund a documentary about the former Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital. RAHF is dedicated to helping identify and preserve historic sites, artifacts and stories of Rome. “We are happy to support this project,” said RAHF President Jonathan Gilreath-Harvey. “Not only will it capture the history of Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital, but we also believe it is an excellent way to honor the citizens of our community by preserving their stories.” The RFCDA has partnered with BrandRED, an award-winning Georgia based video production agency, to do the filming. The RFCDA has already started

Demolition of buildings on the former Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital property, now dubbed the Battey Business Complex, is expected to begin in earnest early next year. The property is zoned for heavy industrial use and VT Industries is in the works to purchase 21 acres and a building on the property for $1.6 million. Rome-Floyd County Development Authority President Missy Kendrick said she’s hoping that purchase will be completed by the end of the year. The company, which makes a variety of architectural wood doors and countertops, completed a 40,000-square-foot expansion at its largely landlocked facility in West Rome in 2022. This purchase would allow the company to further expand that location. Another purchase by a bordering industry comes from

Work to run water and sewer service along Cartersville Highway to the Enterprise Corner industrial property will likely begin in earnest in early 2025. The 200-acre property is located along U.S. 411 at 231 Bass Ferry Road. It was purchased by the Rome-Floyd County Development Authority for just under $4.2 million in SPLOST funds in 2021. While the tract is not yet tied into the water and sewer systems, that doesn’t mean nothing’s been going on so far. In order to dig that first bit of soil to lay pipes, there’s a lot of background work that must first be done. Rome Water and Sewer Director John Boyd said they’ve just completed the staff review of the engineer drawing and

We recently participated in a milestone celebration with Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. and the Rome Floyd Chamber which recognized the 500,000th ATV produced at their facility in Rome, Georgia. We are grateful to have Suzuki in Rome and look forward to the positive impact they continue to make on our community.

While there aren’t many visual changes yet at large projects like the Battey Business Complex and Enterprise Corner, there’s a lot going on as Floyd County’s business landscape continues growing. Up to this point, the Rome-Floyd County Development Authority has acquired $7.6 million in federal environmental assessment and cleanup grant funds for the Battey project. The development authority purchased the former Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital complex from the state with $2.25 million approved by voters in the 2013 and 2017 SPLOST packages. The Rome City Commission rezoned the North Division Street site for heavy industrial use last May. It will likely be another 8 to 10 months before demolition begins taking place in earnest, RFCDA President Missy Kendrick said. However,

Fresh off a recent rebranding, Clean Air Industries has its eyes on expansion in Rome. The industrial and educational air filtration business recently acquired 19 Superior Drive next to its current Rome facility at 7 Superior Drive in the Floyd County Industrial Park off Cedartown Highway. “We are very proud to see Clean Air America growing in place in Floyd County,” said Ryan Earnest, chairman of the Development Authority of Floyd County. “This is a great example of our business friendly community providing an atmosphere conducive to industrial growth and success. We stand ready to assist Clean Air and any of our valuable existing industries in their future plans for expansion.” Formerly, Clean Air America, the company acquired Kentucky-based Amtech