14 Jan Yorktown’s Giordano Industrial installs carbon-capturing tech at coca-cola plant
Giordano’s quad-generation system, Cascio said, will reduce energy use, cut emissions, decrease hazardous truck traffic, and recycle carbon dioxide through a proprietary process, making the gas fully reusable within the facility.
BY MIRANDA FERRANTE
Staff Reporter at Halston media
Yorktown-based Giordano Industrial is playing a key role in a national-scale project for Coca-Cola.
Giordano Industrial Services was founded in 1990 as Giordano Builders and has been headquartered right here in Yorktown Heights since 2017.
The locally rooted firm is installing groundbreaking carbon-capture technology at the Elmsford facility for Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, the tri-state distributor for Coca-Cola products. Giordano is the installer, the project designer is Clarke Energy, U.S., and Liberty Coca-Cola is the facility owner.
The project reached a milestone last month, with the generators powered up and beginning to supply electricity to the Liberty Coca-Cola production facility on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.
“They needed a local partner,” Joe Cascio, Giordano’s vice president of operations, said during a conversation at the facility ahead of the generators being brought online.
Giordano won the project through a competitive bid process that included local, national and international firms.
Bottling plants like the one in Elmsford rely heavily on the public energy grid and hundreds of tanker deliveries of gases such as CO2 and nitrogen each year.
Giordano’s quad-generation system, Cascio said, will reduce energy use, cut emissions, decrease hazardous truck traffic and recycle carbon dioxide through a proprietary process, making the gas fully reusable within the facility.
The system uses natural gas to power an electrical generator that produces electricity fed directly into the building to run the facility and production lines, Cascio said. The generator also produces thermal energy and exhaust gas. That thermal energy is used as heat or chilled to supplement existing heating and cooling systems in the production process.
Carbon dioxide from the exhaust stream is captured, recycled and upgraded to beverage grade for carbonation.
All four outputs occur simultaneously while the system is running, creating an energy-efficient system that delivers electric power, heating, cooling and beverage-grade CO2 at the same time, Cascio said.
“The different part is that we’re doing all four at once,” Cascio, who studied mechanical aerospace engineering at Rutgers University, told Yorktown News. “That’s what’s pioneering.”
The cogeneration system also generates electricity and supplies hot and cold water for plant operations.
“We’re saving at least 500 truckloads of hazardous gas now—hazardous gas coming off the road throughout the city and the state and the local towns,” he said.
The company’s local roots and workforce make this involvement especially meaningful. Employees like the foreman on this project started their careers doing entry-level work, digging dirt and holding signs 20 years ago and have now risen to lead “transformative projects.”
“We’re getting everything from local suppliers,” Cascio said. “Most of our talent is local talent—either managers or labor. Everyone likes to support their local community.”
The system will produce enough electricity to cover more than 1,200 homes, Cascio said, adding that the project is “really improving the health and safety of Yorktown, of Westchester, of New York—less polluting.”
“It’s just positives across the board,” he explained. “Why wouldn’t we want to get on board with that?”
For Giordano, the project shows how a local company can make an impact nationally while advancing sustainable energy innovation.
“Giordano Industrial Services is grateful to our clients—Clarke Energy, U.S., and Liberty Coca-Cola—for trusting our company to make this dream come to life.”