Entropex to reopen under new name

Entropex, a Sarnia, Ontario-based plastics recycling company that entered receivership last July, has been acquired by a partnership formed by two waste and recycling industry veterans, Tony Moucachen and Emmie Leung, to acquire the company's assets.

The business partners have renamed the company ReVital Polymers Inc. The facility will focus on recycling various grades of plastics packaging and will recover postconsumer and postindustrial rigid plastics, converting them into various commodity resins.

ReVital will accept bales of prepicked 1-7 mixed plastics, tubs and lid, postconsumer polyethylene, postconsumer polypropylene and postindustrial polyethylene and polypropylene.

The acquisition includes a 180,000-square-foot recycling facility in Sarnia, Ontario.

Leung and Moucachen say they will restart ReVital Polymers in a staged manner that will reflect a fresh vision and mission.

“Our process allows us to customize production to meet the specific needs of our customers, contributing to more sustainable products made from recycled content,” Moucachen says. He says ReVital will recycle the entire spectrum of product packaging, including paper and metal, integrating it into the reverse supply chain that feeds the development of new products and packaging.

“ReVital is offering programs and services that will improve recovery rates for producers and increase material value through better end-of-life management," Leung says. "Our high-quality postconsumer recycled resins generate greater economic and environmental returns on the three levels of materials management – for consumers, the economy and the environment."

Moucachen is the founder and president of Merlin Plastics Group, Delta, British Columbia, which serves customers throughout Canada and the United States. The company processes postindustrial and postconsumer rigid and flexible plastic packaging.

Leung is the founder and CEO of Emterra Group, headquartered in Burlington, Ontario. The company provides municipal, industrial, commercial and institutional customers a fully integrated approach to collecting, processing and marketing more than 500,000 tons of recyclables per year. The company also operates more than a dozen MRFs, including five single-stream recycling facilities.

Merlin Plastics and Emterra are business partners in another venture that processes and markets recyclables collected through British Columbia’s Multi-Material British Columbia extended producer responsibility program for packaging and printed paper.