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Located just a few short miles from the beach, we understand the importance of sustainability – it’s our mantra.
Three critical words we’ve all heard since we were children. Now, more important than ever, we incorporate these principles into every aspect of our manufacturing process, ensuring sustainability, efficiency, and responsibility in everything we produce.
As a large manufacturing facility, managing and reducing electrical consumption is critical. Our facility is equipped with LED fixtures, state-of-the-art equipment using VFD drives, and will soon be offsetting a percentage of our power via a rooftop solar system.
We can assist with developing containers that meet performance standards while using less material. This reduces both the manufactured cost and carbon footprint of each item.
Many of our production lines feature automatic bagging equipment. This greatly reduces the amount of incoming tractor trailer shipments of corrugate, as well as outgoing corrugate recycling shipments.
We strive to make full truckload shipments when possible, minimizing the amount of annual trucks on the road from our facilities to our customers.
We are experts in processing PCR resin. We have various reliable suppliers of different grades including FDA-compliant, and can run bottles at various PCR percentages including 10%, 25%, 50% and in most instances up to 100% PCR.
PIR is the in-process scrap generated during our normal production process. Our extrusion blow molding production lines are all equipped with fully closed-loop automatic systems to reclaim, regrind, and reprocess 100% of our in-process PIR. Efficient use of PIR ensures all usable resin is consumed and prevented from being sent out for recycling or, worse — the landfill.
As a supply chain partner, we’ve implemented packaging materials return programs with many of our larger local customers. This includes items such as pallets, trays, boxes, and corner posts.
In instances where we cannot use any scrap generated in our processes, we work with partners to recycle our scrap within other processes. This helps ensure as little plastic as possible is able to leave our site for the landfill.
Making bottles or containers a specific color requires adding additives and pigments that make them much more difficult to recycle. These pigments can contaminate the recycling stream and cause problems with sorting and processing. When possible, it is best to eliminate color, and add decoration and branding via other more easily recyclable options.
