Coll Materials Relocates Pennsylvania Plastics Recycling Facility

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has announced that state economic development efforts will enable Coll Materials LLC - a post-consumer and post-industrial plastics recycling company - to relocate its Nazareth, Pa., plastics recycling facility to a new location in the Allentown area. The new facility is expected to result in the addition of 75 new jobs to the area.

"Our investments have led to a national recycling leader setting up shop in the Lehigh Valley resulting in new investment and significant job creation," Corbett says. "By creating 75 jobs, occupying over 100,000 square feet of office space and injecting more than $4 million in private investment into the local economy, this project will positively impact the region."

Coll Materials will lease a 105,000 square-foot facility in South Whitehall Township to account for rapid growth and to service the northeastern United States. The $4 million project will create at least 75 new jobs within three years.

Brian Coll, president of Coll Materials, headquartered in Zanesville, Ohio, says the company is relocating its existing facility in Nazareth to the new location. “We needed a bigger plant with more power to run post-consumer plastics,” he says.
The new location is roughly 15 miles away from its Nazareth plant.

The company received a $333,750 funding offer for the project from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), including a $150,000 opportunity grant, $33,750 in job-training assistance, and $150,000 in job-creation tax credits.

"Coll Materials is delighted to have the opportunity to expand our business to Pennsylvania. The commonwealth, the Governor's Action Team, the Lehigh Valley area economic development representatives and South Whitehall Township officials have all been tremendously helpful. We've received competitive incentives and prompt responses to our many questions," says Coll.

The company has already moved one line to the new site, and is operating at both Pennsylvania locations. The long-term plan is to relocate all the equipment to the new site.