The company’s U.S. recycling operation is located in Novi, Michigan and has installed capacity in excess of 30 million pounds. The facility was specifically engineered to produce high quality post-consumer pellet for use in the manufacture of new PET bottles or other sophisticated packaging types. The post-consumer products manufactured include both clear and green Supercycle and Nucycle pellet (for food and non-food packaging, respectively). Amcor Limited is a global packaging company with annual sales of $11 billion Australian. Amcor manufactures a broad range of plastic, fiber, metal and glass packaging products, PET containers, plastic and metal closures and other packaging related services. Headquarterd in Melbourne, Australia the company had 29,000 empoloyees in 212 manufacturing plants in 36 countries. A "state of the art" PET recycling facility is also operated in Beaune, France.
Avangard was founded in 1984 with operations in the United States, Mexico, Central and South America. Avangard handles a large variety of materials in many diverse configurations and is rated as one of North America’s top recyclers and traders. AVANGARD MEXICO S.A. DE C.V. was established in 1995 with the objective of servicing and procuring PET and HDPE directly from the plants generating the scrap, landfills and other collection points and has rapidly grown to become the largest generator of these post-consumer and post-industrial materials in Mexico, making it the main consolidator of these materials in Latin America.
Blue Ridge Plastics was founded in 2002 to grind and wash post-consumer and post-industrial plastic scrap. Presently, the company processes approximately 1.5 million pounds per month with about equal parts post-consumer and post-industrial. 95% of the scrap plastic processed is polyethylene or polypropylene.
P.O. Box 1243 206 Warehouse Street Eden, North Carolina 27289 Contact: Donald W. Grigg Phone: (919) 522-2011 Fax: (336) 623-4432
is a recycler of HDPE and PET post-consumer bottle material and produces high quality finished product materials for use in "recycled content" applications such as detergent and cleaning product containers, crates, films and other high quality applications. CLEAN TECH’S product line includes post-consumer PET "clean flake" and pellet materials in green and clear colors as well as post-consumer HDPE pelletized material produced in "natural", mixed color (green) and light and dark color segregated materials. CLEAN TECH also has additive and special blending capability. CLEAN TECH has FDA Letter of Non-Objection status for both PET flake and pellet materials.
is a recycler of post-industrial and post-consumer plastic bottles and scrap. With locations in New Jersey, West Virginia and Florida, CPR specializes in grinding, screening and repackaging. CPR is presently looking at options for a wash/dry and pelletizing line for the West Virginia location.
1212 North 39th Street Tampa, Florida 33605 Contact: Ben Benvenuti 813-248-4212 813-248-5634 (fax) www.cprinc.net benb@cprinc.net
CUSTOM POLYMERS, INC
Custom Polymers is a leading recycler and reprocessor of all types and forms of post-industrial and post-consumer plastics scrap and has become one of the fastest growing recyclers in North America over the past nine years. Corporate headquarters are located in Charlotte, NC with offices throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Custom Polymers processes post-consumer PET and HDPE as well as a variety of other polymers. Contact this company should you have any scrap, obsolete materials, or if you have applications for quality recycled feedstocks.
is a full service processing facility with five unique and specialized functions - auto-sorting, grinding, washing, pelletizing and/or pulverization of post-consumer or post-industrial plastic resins. As a comingled plastic processor of resin types 1 - 5, EAST COAST RECYCLING can offer a variety of services. ECRA prides itself as the sole recycler of post-consumer PVC bottles in the United States with a patented process for the vinyl flooring market.
P. O. Box 638 Vineland, New Jersey 08362-0638 Contact: George P. Glenn, III 856-327-8888 856-327-8710 (fax) # GGlenn3@aol.com
ENVISION PLASTICS
Envision sorts, grinds, washes and pelletizes post-consumer HDPE bottles collected from recycling programs and sells PCR pellets.
606 B Walter Street Reidsville, North Carolina 27323 (336) 342-4749 (336) 342-9841 fax Contact: Tamsin Ettefagh # tamsin@envisionplastics.com
Evergreen Plastics, Ltd.
is a recycling facility that takes baled PET bottles and other PET and converts it to high quality raw material.
This company grinds post-consumer material from California.
325 East Ellis Avenue Perris, California 92570 (909) 657-5466 (909) 657-3385 fax Contact: Nadim Bahou # global.nadim@verizon.net
Graham Recycling Company
is a large recycler of post-consumer HDPE. GRAHAM RECYCLING uses bales of milk and water bottles and colored HDPE bottles to produce pellets. The pellets produced by GRAHAM RECYCLING are used to make new bottles and film. GRAHAM RECYCLING can ship pellets in gaylords, or by bulk truck or bulk rail.
2401 Pleasant Valley Road York, Pennsylvania, 17402-9600 Contact: Robin Marshall 717-849-8650 717-845-4448 (fax) # #
Grupo Simplex, S.A. de C.V.
A plastic recycling company that buys postconsumer bottles from landfills and collection programs all over Mexico, for sorting and regrinding. They have added a wash line to give value to product.
Ave. La Estanzuela #100 Col. Ant. Estanzuela(5821) 83 17 82 88 FAX: Same Gonzalo Mitre G. # Gmitre@simplex.com
INNOVATIVE COMMODITIES GROUP
Innovative is a Houston, Texas based company, which originally started as a trading company, but has since developed into a full-service recycler providing solutions for manufacturers and non-plastics related companies as well as handling post-consumer bottles. ICG reclaims post-consumer scrap from their plant in Mexico and performs value added processes to PET and HDPE. The company collects, sorts, bales and grinds both PET and HDPE in order to prepare them for shipment to customers for processing into consumer products.
This company is a leading manufacturer of PET roll stock and PET flat sheet. They use high quality, post-consumer PET bottle flake and virgin plastics and serves the thermoforming, packaging, die cutting and printing industries. The company offers top quality products.
has recycled plastics for more than 19 years. In 1993 the recycling division for HDPE and special compounds was opened. In less than three years it grew to be the largest recycler of HDPE in the country with over 250 million pounds per year capacity. KW PLASTICS has added another 125,000 square-foot building that increased total capacity to over 600 million pounds per year. For further information call (800) 633-8744, ext. 410
P. O. Drawer 707 Troy, Alabama 36081 Contact: Arthur Ferguson 334-566-1563 334-566-1415 (fax) # #
MARGLEN INDUSTRIES, INC.
Marglen is a complete polyester extrusion and bottle clean-up facility. Marglen buys post-consumer, PET bottles in bale form and also purchases PET clean flake, off-spec and virgin resins.
1748 Ward Mountain Road NE Rome, Georgia 30161 Contact: John Burnes
is a plastics recycling company handling post-consumer and industrial plastic scrap. This includes polyethylene, ABS, PVC and Polypropylene. Its primary product is the sorting, grinding, washing, drying, extruding and pelletizing of HDPE milk bottles, and other recyclable containers. Through affiliated companies, MERLIN also recycles oil bottles and PET bottles. Both these products are sorted, ground and washed. In addition, MERLIN extrudes and pelletizes oil bottle plastic.
purchases post-consumer PET bottles and regrind and recycles this material in its 200 million-pound facility in Summerville, Georgia. MOHAWK produces and sells PET flake, pellet, fiber and residential carpet. The company sells the high-quality flake and pellet to manufacturers of packaging, containers, strapping and sheet. The majority of the fiber is used in the manufacture of carpets. MOHAWK is the world’s largest end-user of post-consumer PET bottles.
is located in Atlantic Canada and produces pre-treated, high-quality, high-yield PET and HDPE dirty flake. Annual throughput capability is 35 million pounds combined PET, HDPE and co-mingled bales sourced locally from deposit programs as well as private and municipal MRFs. NOVAPET concentrates on supplier education programs to achieve high-yield products.
23 Tupper Boulevard Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada B4H 4J4 Contact: David Attis 902-667-1398 902-667-1492 (fax) # novapet@ns.sympatico.ca
PET Processors, LLC
is a major supplier of custom polymer upgrading and recycled PET. The Ohio and Scotland plants process a variety of resins to meet tight specifications. Services include IV upgrading by SSP, crystallization, and repelletization. Most resins are run on a toll basis. PET PROCESSORS also sells several grades of recycled PET that meet tight specs for IV, color, and purity. PET PROCESSORS buy clean PET flake from several recyclers who certify purity, PCR content, and reliable supply.
located in Bowling Green, Ohio, utilizes proprietary technology developed by its managing partner, Plastic Technologies, Inc., to pelletize and crystallize recycled post-consumer PET flake for direct sale and reuse back into consumer packaging applications. PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES has been in continuous operation since December of 1992, with a current annual production capacity of over 45 million pounds.
buys PET bottles baled from post-consumer curbside and deposit collections. PLASTREC sorts, grinds and washes flake to be reused as PET resin to produce fiber, plastic sheet, bottles, etc.
is a leading manufacturer of clean flake and reprocessed pellets from post-consumer PET beverage containers for high-quality applications such as sheet, bottles and compounded products. Cleared by the FDA for direct contact food packaging, PURE TECH’S RPET flake provides economic benefits previously enjoyed exclusively by non-food applications. PURE TECH’S innovative plant designs are licensed internationally and acknowledged as the standard in post-consumer PET recycling. As the recycling division of Tekni-Plex Company, Pure Tech maintains facilities in New York, Michigan and Maine.
a service of Waste Management/Recycle America, is a post-consumer plastic bottle handler. RECYCLE AMERICA ALLIANCE processes all types of bottles (that is, all #1 through #7) using state-of-the-art, automated sorting technology. Once the bottles are sorted by resin type and color, they are granulated and shipped to customers. PREI - RECYCLE AMERICA purchases bales of bottles from suppliers located throughout the United States in either commingled or pre-sorted form and in shipments containing both types. Waste Management Materials Marketing Group (WM3) has marketing responsibility for all the non-fiber products created in Waste Management’s 165 MRFs located throughout the United States and Canada. They presently market in excess of 200 million pounds of HDPE, PET and various forms of #1 through #7s in addition to post-industrial plastics, rubber and textiles.
1815 Capital Boulevard Raleigh, North Carolina 27604 Contact: Steve Carreras (843) 397-7690 (713) 286-7498 fax www.wm.com scarreras@wm.com
Signode Plastic Recycling Alliance
a unit of Illinois Tool Works (ITW), is a major processor of post-consumer PET material. The company has the capabilities to sort, grind, and wash PET material to produce a high quality flake. The company is located in Florence, Kentucky. It is adjacent to its sister company, Signode Consumable Plastic, which is a PET strap manufacturer. SIGNODE PLASTIC RECYCLING ALLIANCE purchases post-consumer PET bottles, dirty PET flake, and Signode post-consumer strapping.
7080 Industrial Road, Unit #2, Florence, Kentucky 41402 Contact: Don Covington 859-727-7412 859-727-7415 or contact: Jim Arlinghaus 859-342-6400 859-727-4540 (fax) www.signode.com signodeflorence@aol.com
Spenaco, Inc.
is a tolling processor with over 20 years of experience in the PET business. SPENACO sorts and grinds post-consumer and post-industrial PET. The company separates PET bales by colors and removes contaminates and granulates; aspirates, washes, removes floatables, dries and separates PET flake; grinds packaging and color grade PET preforms and purgings; and washes and screen strands dust and rocks pellets. SPENACO also has the capability of handling bulk, boxes, bags, cans, drums and large chunks in truck load quantities.
15894 Lucas Ferry Street Athens, Alabama 35611 Contact: Larry Bullington or Pat Gatlin 256-232-6453 256-232-2497 (fax) # #
St. Jude Polymer Corp.
has been recycling since 1977. St. Jude has been around as long as the plastic soda bottle! St. Jude sells clear and green PET pellets and flake. Their solid-state units allow the company to raise IV’s of PET, PBT and Nylon. St. Jude also offers tolling services, which include washing, extruding and solid stating PET, along with washing and extruding HDPE scrap. St. Jude produces HDPE slip-sheets used by the distribution industry.
a leading supplier of custom compounded commodity, engineering and post-consumer resin, offers a full range of plastic recycling services and maintains the largest and most versatile inventory of quality recycled plastics in the western United States. TALCO’S post-consumer recycling plant is located in Long Beach, California. The plant is designed to grind, wash and pelletize natural and colored HDPE bottles diverted from landfill through curbside collection and material recovery facilities.
1000 W. Rincon Corona, California 92880 Contact: William O’Grady 951-531-2000 (951) 531-2059 fax # #
Tulip Corporation
with facilities in City of Industry, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Niagara Falls, New York, is a major supplier of hard rubber battery cases, curbside collection bins, water and beverage crates, custom molded products and recycled materials. The recycled materials operation is located in the Niagara Falls facility where fractional-melt post-consumer HDPE and injection grade post-industrial PP are the primary resins processed. Tulip Corporation also does toll extrusion and compounding and custom injection molding.
3125 Highland Avenue Niagara Falls, New York 14305 Contact: Alex Goncarovs 716-282-1261 716-285-6075 (fax) www.tulipcorp.com alexg@tulipcorp.com
UltrePET, L.L.C.
is an ISO 9002 registered company dedicated to the recycling of 100% post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET). ULTREPET is one of the nation’s largest producers of recycled bottle-grade PET resins - clear and green flake and crystallized pellet. The production of high-quality resins with 100% recycled content is assured through UltrePET’s secured raw material suppliers, value-added processing capabilities, high-production capacity, and rigorous quality control procedures.
136-C Fuller Road Albany, New York 12205 Contact: Paul C. Zordan 518-459-1080 518-459-8797 www.wTe.com pzordanwte@aol.com
UNITED PLASTIC RECYCLING
This company is a full service thermoplastic recycler based in Montgomery, Alabama. Specializing in the sale/purchase of quality post-industrial and post-consumer material. UPR has the capability to process, regrind, and purge -- parts, bales and trim waste. UPR provides quality material and fair service. UPR easily delivers truckload quantities to any location. UPR can be a source for quality regrinds and an outlet for plastic scrap.
licenses and operates a proprietary and patented process for the cleaning of post-consumer PET, number 1 containers. The resulting product has a non-objection letter from the FDA for use in direct food contact. The product is priced below that of virgin PET. Additionally URRC buys and processes medical x-ray and lithographic film in a one-step proprietary operation. The resulting products are clean washed PET film flake and silver.
5396 North Blackstock Road, Spartanburg, South Carolina 29303 Contact: Gerry Fishbeck 864-574-0904 864-574-0710 (fax) www.urrc.net gfishbeck@urrc.net
Wellman, Inc.
manufactures and markets high-quality polyester products, including Fortrel® brand polyester textile fibers, and PermaClearTM PET (polyethylene terephthalate) packaging resin. They also manufacture Fortrel EcoSpun® polyester fiber and EcoClear PET Resin® that is manufactured from 100% post-consumer PET containers. The world’s largest PET recycler, WELLMAN utilizes a significant amount of recycled raw materials in its manufacturing operations.
