Oil Filter Recycler Relocating

Vortex Recycling recently received a building loan of slightly more than $1 million from the state of Pennsylvania to relocate its operations into their own new facility in New Castle, PA., that the company will own.

Don Kleine, owner of Vortex, says the company is the largest oil filter recycler in the world, recycling oil filters from all of the United States and Canada. He estimates that the company presently takes in around 9,500 55-gallon drums of used oil filters a month, or around 1,200 tons of material a month.

The company hopes to be in the new facility by Jan. 1, 2006. Along with increasing the company’s capacity to handle used oil filter, the new facility will have direct rail access, allowing the company to take in hopper cars of oil filters, to increase efficiency.

Through its patented extrusion process, Vortex, which has been in business for around 3 ½ years, is able to recycle all the components.  All solids become #2 scrap steel that doubles as a pre-heater fuel in the steel furnace and all the liquid becomes #6 fuel oil.

Vortex Recycling has experienced 15 times growth since January 2003.