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IOWA COMPANY AND OWNER SENTENCED
Release Date: 01/22/99
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1999
IOWA COMPANY AND OWNER SENTENCED
Fiberdyne Inc., of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Mikkel Mandt, director and owner of Fiberdyne, were sentenced on Jan. 15 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in Cedar Rapids for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by illegally disposing of spent acetone. Fiberdyne was ordered to pay a $60,000 fine and serve three years probation. Mandt was sentenced to four months confinement and two years probation and was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine. Fiberdyne manufactures fiberglass water treatment systems and maintains facilities in Cedar Falls and New Hartford, Iowa. Acetone was used as a solvent to clean resin, fibreglass, and other substances off tools, equipment and employees’ hands. From January 1991 to May 1996, Fiberdyne illegally disposed of spent acetone by burning it and by dumping distillery equipment “bottoms” containing acetone residue into dumpsters that were taken to the Black Hawk County Landfill for disposal. Acetone is a flammable material that presents a fire hazard unless it is properly disposed of. The case was investigated by the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, and was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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