IESI Corp., a subsidiary of IESI-BFC Ltd., has announced that it has acquired Central Texas Secure Shredding and its recycling facility in Pflugerville, Texas.
According to a press release, Central Texas Secure Shredding, which operates a document destruction business in a 20,000-square-foot building, provides document destruction services throughout the central Texas area. In addition to shredding services, the company processes 150 tons of recyclables per day.
The release notes that with the acquisition the facility will change its name to IESI Central Texas Shredding and Recycling Facility. IESI says that it plans to expand the facility's current document destruction processing services to incorporate a fully integrated single stream recycling process to serve the Austin, Texas area by the third quarter of 2010.
IESI, along with parent company IESI-BFC Ltd., have diverted more than 500,000 tons of material from landfills, including more than 300,000 tons of paper. In addition, IESI's Seneca Meadows Tire Recycling center has processed more than 1.5 million automotive tires for re-use.
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