The Founder
Scott
Frazier.
American Rare Earths
Thirty-four years of hands-on work on the hardest water there is — and the separation science that makes LaNova's breakthrough chemistry possible. From poultry plants across the United States and Brazil to dairies, pulp mills, and municipal facilities, Scott built LaNova on a single conviction: there had to be a better answer than land-applying DAF sludge.
CO₂ Column
Engineered gas-liquid contact — recovery-grade separation in practice.
34 yrs
Hands-on experience
SME
Phase separation chemistry
Multi
Patent areas
Poultry & Beyond
Forged in poultry.
Proven everywhere.
Scott's career was forged in poultry processing wastewater — one of the highest-strength, most variable streams in the industry. He's worked poultry plants across the United States and led treatment programs for major processors in Brazil, characterizing DAF solids, tuning chemistry, and recovering protein and fat fractions that were previously land-applied or hauled off at a loss.
That cross-border, hands-on poultry work is where LaNova's density-modification and lanthanide chemistry was proven — on real DAF solids, in real plants, against real economics. It's also where Scott saw, repeatedly, that the conventional answer to DAF sludge was disposal. He built LaNova to make it recovery.
Recognized as a treatment expert across industries
Poultry
US & Brazil — DAF solids, protein & fat recovery
Dairy / Cheese
Nitrification recovery, alkalinity & toxicity
Food Processing
Ultra-low phosphorus across variable load
Pulp & Paper
WET toxicity evaluation & coagulant strategy
Municipal
Tertiary phosphorus & rare-earth optimization
Industrial Dischargers
PFAS destruction strategy & compliance
Expertise
The science
behind the blends.
01
High-Strength Wastewater
34 years of hands-on experience troubleshooting high-strength industrial wastewater — the difficult, variable streams that defeat conventional treatment.
02
Phase Separation Chemistry
Subject matter expert in phase separation chemistry — the discipline underlying LaNova's selective lanthanide binding and blend performance.
03
Specialized Chromatography
Chromatography expertise applied to refine both rare earths and protein fractioning — the same separation science behind LaNova's engineered blends.
04
Toxicity Evaluation
Recognized expert in toxicity evaluation across pulp and paper and high-load food processing waste — particularly dairy and cheese applications, where shock loads and inhibitory compounds routinely derail biology.
05
Advanced Lanthanide Chemistry
LaNova offers advanced lanthanide chemistry not available anywhere else — including chloride-free organic acid blends for biological phosphorus and nitrogen removal, engineered for recovery rather than disposal.
Patent Areas
A credited
inventor.
Put the science
to work.
Feel free to reach out and discuss your problem. Whether it's settling issues in a clarifier, passing WET tests, or troubleshooting nitrification — no problem is too small. We treat all customers, big and small, the same. The LaNova way.