Can-Am Recycling recognizes Stratus Plastics

Can-Am Recycling Inc., Tilbury, Ontario, recognized Stratus Plastics International Inc., Windsor, Ontario, April 22 for the company’s efforts to better sort, identify and ship its plastic scrap. Can-Am President Lawrence Pazner and Chief Financial Officer Barbara Cheifetz presented the award to the management team at Stratus Plastics and planted a tree at the company’s Kew Drive location to commemorate Earth Day. 

Annually, Can-Am recognizes one of the companies that supplies it with plastic scrap with the Earth Day Award.

Pazner and his sister, Cheifetz, founded the business in 2002. Can-Am primarily serves molders that supply the automotive industry. The company also handles postcommercial low-density plastic films and agricultural trays. Much of the material Can-Am processes is generated in Canada, but the company ships material all over North America and to parts of Asia, Pazner says.

 “We handle one of the more diverse and broadest ranges of polymers,” he says, from commodity to engineering grades. They include polypropylene-thermoplastic olefins, polycarbonate-acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, nylons, polycarbonate-polybutylene terephthalate and glass-filled polymers.

Between its brokerage and processing services, Pazner says Can-Am handles roughly 1.2 million pounds of plastic per month.

The company began recognizing its scrap suppliers in 2020. Can-Am has been working with Stratus for more than five years, Pazner says. Under the direction of Stratus Materials Manager Amanda Dubrovay, the company’s Ontario plant worked with Can-Am to begin sorting and identifying the scrap it was generating on-site.

Can-Am supplied Stratus with “giant” pans to collect the plant’s purge and drool in. Collecting the segregated material improves recovery and value for Stratus, he says, while reducing the amount of labor Can-Am has to invest in the material.