EnTire Recycling, a Nebraska City, Neb., tire recycler, is looking to relocate its facility after a fire damaged the scrap tire operation. Jim Gerking, president of EnTire, said he hopes to have the company’s board of directors decide this week on a new location for the tire recycling operation.
According to local press reports, Gerking took out an option to purchase a closed plant in Rock Port, Mo., approximately 20 miles away from the tire recyclers previous operation.
The decision to move came after a fire broke out at the Nebraska City facility and burned for several days.
EnTire has been in operation since 1996. The company had been processing around 750,000 tires a year with one shift. When the company moves it hopes to double the amount of tires it handles as it adds a second shift to its operation.
It could take two to six months or more for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to consider permits for EnTire, said Dan Fester, chief of the waste-tire unit.
The state of Nebraska has awarded the company grant money to purchase equipment and machinery to process scrap tire. No one who has bought recycling equipment with such grants has later moved out of state, he said. Grant recipients can be from nearby states if their activities benefit Nebraska, according to the Omaha Herald.
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