ACI Plastics to expand South Carolina operations

ACI Plastics Inc., a thermoplastics processor and recycler based in Flint, Michigan, has announced plans to invest $4.1 million at its facility in Oconee County, South Carolina. The expansion includes the purchase of a former textile warehouse building in Westminster, South Carolina, which the plastics firm says it will remodel. The renovations are expected to be complete by the first half of 2015.

Scott Melton, president of ACI Plastics, says, “The purchase of this building is key to our strategic growth in the South. Within the next 10 years we see our operation in South Carolina being as large as our operation in Michigan, where we operate in 225,000 square feet with 85 employees. The new South Carolina plant in Oconee County will add capacity to our paint removal and instrument panel recycling.”

ACI Plastics, in business for 28 years, has operations in South Carolina, Michigan, Arizona and Nebraska. The company specializes in paint separation and multilayer material separation for plastics primarily from the automotive industry. The company says it also has seen growth in recycling scrap plastics from the medical industry.

Primary services at ACI’s South Carolina plant comprise size reduction, toll grinding, product destruction, dismantling, warehousing and logistics. ACI will add paint removal and instrument panel recycling to the South Carolina plant over the next few years.