Associated Paper Stock, a Youngstown, Ohio, paper stock operation, was awarded a $250,000 market development grant from the state of Ohio’s Department of Natural Resources, Recycling and Litter Prevention Division.
The money, along with money the company will be investing, will be used to expand the operation to allow it to handle a wider range of material.
Tom Yanko, president of Associated Paper Stock, said that the money, which may total around $500,000, will be used to purchase new equipment such as sorting equipment, conveyors, trammels and a horizontal baler. Additionally, the company will be expanding the facility by around 14,000 square feet. According to local press reports the facility is presently around 15,000 square feet.
Yanko says that the company hopes to break ground on the expansion by early July, with completion hopefully within four months.
In addition to taking in around 7,000 tons of paper a month, Associated also is handling more scrap plastics from its customers, especially shrink wrap plastic. The expansion should allow the company to handle a wider range of recyclable materials, including different types of plastics, aluminum cans and other recyclables.
Along with the expansion of Associated Paper’s stock’s operation, Mahoning County also will have an additional MRF being built in the county.
The company, called Recycled Management, is being built on property owned by Allied Waste. The plan is for the company to take in the recyclable materials being collected through Allied’s curbside collection program.
The advantage to the new MRF is that instead of hauling the material to a recycling facility in Pennsylvania, the material can be sorted within the county, saving transportation costs, as well as bringing in jobs to the county.
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