Coll Materials, headquartered in Zanesville, Ohio, has announced that it is installing multiple extruders at its Zanesville, Ohio, facility to produce post-consumer fractional melt HDPE (high-density polyethylene) pellets.
The company’s 150,000-square-foot facility currently runs post-consumer and post-industrial regrind flake. The addition of the extruders will allow the company to produce 40 million pounds of post-consumer HDPE pellets each year. The company’s post-consumer regrind production will remain at 10 million pounds annually.
“We are adding extrusion capabilities in order to better serve our customers. In addition to increasing our capacity so that we can offer higher volumes to our customers, it allows us to offer our customers a value add product,” says Brian Coll, company CEO.
Coll Materials also purchased a shredder that it expects to boost production at its grinding lines. A second washing line also has been custom built for the post-consumer line. This line features an 80-foot water tank to clean post-consumer material.
Other equipment purchases that Coll has made include machines that will clean and clarify the water in the wash process for re-use.
“The new equipment and upgrades in technology and engineered systems will allow us to become more efficient in manufacturing, allowing us to process more material for our customers and giving us the freedom to buy in larger quantities,” says Bob Morrow, Coll vice president of operations.
The second phase of Coll’s expansion will be the opening of a second recycling facility to be located in the Southwest United States. This facility will produce post-industrial flake in various grades of HDPE, PP (polypropylene), ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) and other resins as they are available. The new facility will also manufacture post-consumer HDPE pellets.
“We are currently in negotiations for this new plant in the Southwestern United States, and we intend to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2011,” says Matt Elli, Coll vice president of finance and community development.
“We spent a lot of time deciding on potential locations for our newest facility. The Southwest made the most sense because we can offer our strategic customers a freight advantage for some of their locations and it allows us to buy material from a larger geographic region,” says Renée Coll, vice president of sales and marketing.
With the equipment upgrades at the company’s Ohio facility and the opening of the second plant, Coll Materials will have the capacity to recycle 100 million pounds of plastic per year.
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