Pratt Opens Kansas Recycling Plant

Recovered paper from the plant will feed the company’s Louisiana recycled board mill.

Pratt Industries, headquartered in Conyers, Ga., has opened a new recycling facility in Wichita, Kan.

Pratt says the baling plant will handle old corrugated containers (OCC), mixed and office paper, old newspaper (ONP), plastic Nos. 1 through 7 and aluminum and steel cans.
"We have identified Wichita and the surrounding towns and cities to be underserved from a standpoint of recycling capabilities for businesses,” says Myles Cohen, president of Pratt Recycling. “This new recycling facility will help manufacturers, distributors and retailers drastically reduce their landfill volume and thereby costs.”
The baling operation is a stand-alone building within the same complex where Pratt Industries currently operates its Wichita corrugator and box plant.
“These materials will be baled on site then sent to our material recovery facility in Denton, Texas, for further processing,” Cohen says.
The recovered fiber processed at the Wichita plant will eventually be used at Pratt’s recycled paperboard mill in Shreveport, La.
“Adding recycling services to the area will ensure customers who purchase our corrugated boxes have a close-the-loop solution available to them, which will ultimately assist them in achieving their environmental sustainability goals,” says Dave McKinney, Pratt regional vice president.
Along with baling, Pratt will offer customers customized waste audits to assist in minimizing landfill costs by maximizing recycling.
“Our waste assessment professionals have expertise in all the traditional types of material such as paper, plastic and metal, but can also assist on materials that are difficult to recycle, or maybe even eligible to be considered for conversion to clean energy,” Cohen says.

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Along with operating paperboard mills, corrugators plants, box plants and recycling centers, Pratt Industries operates a waste-to-clean energy plant at its Conyers headquarters. The company says it is the fifth largest paper and packaging company in North America.

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