Plastics Recycler Looks to Open More Plants

The new line in Tennessee is expected to add 15 million pounds of recycling capacity a year. The company also says it has placed equipment orders to open two additional recycling lines this year.

When these new facilities come on line the company expects to have a total capacity of 70 million pounds of scrap plastic a year.

In addition to plans for this year the company is undertaking site selection for three additional plastic film recycling facilities to be built in 2007.

The first opening is scheduled for May 2006 with a 90,000 square foot facility in Ontario, Canada. Future recycling facilities will be located in Nevada and Texas to accommodate the flow of recovered material from Mountain Valley’s sourcing partner, NextLife Recycling.

NextLife collects and provides Mountain Valley with millions of pounds of post-consumer plastic film each year, with material recovered from nearly every state and province throughout North America.

Mountain Valley’s post-consumer resins are in high demand, now more than ever,” says Daniel Schrager, president of Mountain Valley Recycling. “By utilizing state-of-the-art technologies at Mountain Valley, we convert grocery and retail bags, stretch wrap and other plastic scrap into high-quality PCR resins that can be used to make potentially hundreds of new, long-lasting rigid and film grade plastic products.”