Business is coming back to Pinola, Ind.
Inside the shell of what was once a bustling distribution center, a businessman and an engineer sit in their offices looking out into the empty 100,000-square-foot building, formerly part of Scott Foresman and a few other book-distribution companies. They are seeing the potential for a great wire recycling business staffed by local residents.
Cable Plastics Reclaiming, a new business venture brought to the county by Henry Bock and Ullrich Engel of Plastics Reclaiming Technology, will provide 25 residents with employment at a recycling plant that will process 50 million pounds of cable wire each year. The plant is located just north of the intersection of Ind. 2 West and CR-500W.
The business will kick off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 30 at 3 p.m.
Bock said he has been impressed with the potential employees he has met and hopes even more come forward.
“We look forward to having a great workforce,” he said.
Bock said average pay will be $16 per hour with benefits available at a 30 percent deduction. The facility will operate 24 hours per day, seven days a week, in two 12-hour shifts alternating three and four days work per week. Hiring will begin in December and continue through February.
The company will take in around four truckloads per day of chopped-up wire bits and run them through a centrifuge that heats the thermoplastic-coated wire to 350 degrees, which separates the plastic from the metal.
“That is our market niche,” Bock said. The resulting products will be shipped worldwide.
Bock said he has finalized all necessary financing, including a $1 million investment by the LaPorte County Solid Waste District, and will start installing equipment in late December. Lathrop Corp. of Toledo, Ohio, will be the general contractor and Bock said it plans to hire local subcontractors.
Engel said the machinery will be relatively quiet and will have no emissions. He also said the process will prevent nearly 20,000 tons of wire from going into the earth.
“If (the wire) is not separated, it goes into the landfill,” he said. - The (LaPorte, Ind.) Herald-Angus
No more results found. Inside the shell of what was once a bustling distribution center, a businessman and an engineer sit in their offices looking out into the empty 100,000-square-foot building, formerly part of Scott Foresman and a few other book-distribution companies. They are seeing the potential for a great wire recycling business staffed by local residents.
Cable Plastics Reclaiming, a new business venture brought to the county by Henry Bock and Ullrich Engel of Plastics Reclaiming Technology, will provide 25 residents with employment at a recycling plant that will process 50 million pounds of cable wire each year. The plant is located just north of the intersection of Ind. 2 West and CR-500W.
The business will kick off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 30 at 3 p.m.
Bock said he has been impressed with the potential employees he has met and hopes even more come forward.
“We look forward to having a great workforce,” he said.
Bock said average pay will be $16 per hour with benefits available at a 30 percent deduction. The facility will operate 24 hours per day, seven days a week, in two 12-hour shifts alternating three and four days work per week. Hiring will begin in December and continue through February.
The company will take in around four truckloads per day of chopped-up wire bits and run them through a centrifuge that heats the thermoplastic-coated wire to 350 degrees, which separates the plastic from the metal.
“That is our market niche,” Bock said. The resulting products will be shipped worldwide.
Bock said he has finalized all necessary financing, including a $1 million investment by the LaPorte County Solid Waste District, and will start installing equipment in late December. Lathrop Corp. of Toledo, Ohio, will be the general contractor and Bock said it plans to hire local subcontractors.
Engel said the machinery will be relatively quiet and will have no emissions. He also said the process will prevent nearly 20,000 tons of wire from going into the earth.
“If (the wire) is not separated, it goes into the landfill,” he said. - The (LaPorte, Ind.) Herald-Angus