Jan H. Schut
Resin Broker/Reclaimer Uses Internet To Match Up Buyers & Sellers
Dale Schiff, president of Exchange Plastics Corp., has been with the Akron, Ohio, firm for 17 of its 27 years as a broker of industrial plastics scrap. In just the last five years, Exchange Plastics has grown into a major reclaimer as well, taking more control over the plastic it sells. Five years ago, 90% of the company's sales came from brokering plastic, 10% from grinding and hand separating of parts. Now the ratio is 60% brokering, 40% value-added reclaim.
Read MoreStretching the Limits of Film Innovation
The four partners who started FlexTech Packaging Inc. in Cincinnati three years ago all came from high-profile jobs with big packaging companies like James River and Jefferson Smurfitt.
Read MoreThe Fine Art Of Separation
If you need ground plastic waste separated from metal particles, or plastic flakes separated by color or density, Butler-MacDonald Inc. is up to the job.
Read MoreTags To Climb...Maybe Twice
Despite weak prices in all major-volume thermoplastics, producers of PE, PP, and PS, are hoping to move tabs up once or even twice more before the end of the year.
Read MoreProcessors Wins Business Running Reclaim Nobody Else Wants
SelecTech’s business model is unique as a company involved in recycling, so too is its success.
Read MoreResin Makers Battle Weak Prices
Despite widespread weakness in thermoplastic prices, resin producers are attempting new hikes in PE and engineering resins, including ABS.
Read MoreGenpak Pioneers in PET Foam Sheet
Soon after Genpak LLC launched its line of CPET trays for commercial baking in the early 1990s, the firm chose foamed PET as its next R&D target.
Read MorePricing Updates - August 2000
PP Price Hike Barely Makes DentPolypropylene prices generally have stayed the same despite recent attempts by suppliers to raise them 3-4¢/lb.
Read MoreFlatter Film Extrusion For the Win
When Charter Films began operations three years ago in Superior, Wis., its goal was to supply high-end converting markets in the region with blown films of better quality than those of much larger rivals.
Read MoreGently Does It
Unique R&D experience in urethane chemistry created a niche for New England Urethanes in North Haven, Conn., a small, highly specialized compounder serving medical-device manufacturers.
Read MorePricing Update - March 2000
Buyers Balk at Barrage of Price HikesDespite strong demand and rising feedstock prices, resin suppliers bumped up against resistance last month to higher tabs for PE, PP, PVC, and PS.
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