Aligned Digesters

Our goal is to build a green future while providing dairies with a consistent revenue stream with anaerobic digesters that do not disrupt their operations,” says Omar Ramirez, GM at Aligned Digesters.

Aligned Digesters is a dedicated and fully-licensed engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) service provider specializing in building anaerobic digesters that help dairies convert biogas into renewable natural gas. This idea was born when Brent Verwey, president of Aligned Digesters, had to build anaerobic digesters at his father’s dairy farm. Verwey’s extensive knowledge of dairy operations and strong engineering skills helped him construct ideally-designed anaerobic digesters, adding another source of revenue to his father’s dairy farm.

But in this successful journey, Verwey came across a major challenge that often resulted in the construction of non-dairy-compliant anaerobic digesters. Digester companies today lack proper knowledge of dairy operations, resulting in digesters that affect dairy farm operations. Committed to eliminating this gap, Verwey founded Aligned Digesters, a leader in constructing anaerobic digesters that align with dairy operations by leveraging unrivaled experience in the dairy industry.

“We strive to bring both worlds— biogas and dairy—together by constructing digesters that help them operate hand-in-hand,” says Ramirez.

Home to a team of engineers with extensive knowledge in dairy operations, Aligned Digesters is perfectly positioned to design digesters that align with the varying needs of dairy owners. Its three core departments—engineering, procurement, and construction—work in tandem, complementing each other’s operations from concept to closure. The firm operates synchronously, offering the best-suited digesters for dairies.

Regarding project execution, Aligned Digesters adopts a customer-first approach where it deploys a team of dedicated engineers to every project from day one. Each engineer is assigned fewer than two projects, helping them focus on planning, drawing, and designing to provide the best possible outcome. They sometimes work as field engineers, visiting and inspecting project sites to monitor the progress per the plan.

Collaboration is at the heart of what Aligned Digesters does; its engineering and construction managers collaborate at various levels. For example, during the design phase, its construction team advises engineers on the best construction methods for a project. Similarly, they collaborate during procurement, choosing the right equipment based on their lead time. While engineers select the equipment, its project managers decide when the supply must reach the site. Both teams maintain constant communication to ensure construction is aligned with the design.

Aligned Digesters’ excellence in the EPC domain is complemented by its operational oversight services. It ensures the longevity of constructed facilities by assigning an operation team throughout the project, which checks whether all EPC domains align thoroughly and meet the project’s objectives. It also collaborates with clients to guarantee that engineering, procurement, and construction works are efficiently and cost-effectively completed.

Buoyed by its success in the dairy industry, Aligned Digesters has diversified into the food and municipal waste sector. Dedicated to excelling in these verticals, it is hiring experts and engineers with municipal waste backgrounds, enriching its services with their expertise, and meeting the EPC needs of clients.

Aligned Digesters’ biggest forte is transparency, contributing to its success in every project. It starts every project by informing clients about market conditions and helping set the right expectations. It holds weekly meetings with customers and their investors during each project phase and provides regular updates.

In essence, be it dairy, food or municipal waste, Aligned Digesters’ experienced engineers and project managers stay abreast with client requirements and strive to balance a project’s cost, longevity, and operational maintenance requirements. This makes Aligned Digesters a much-needed EPC service provider that customers can trust today and in the future.