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Article: Tired of waste: smackover company converts waste tires into marketable products. (Mid-South Reclamation Industries Inc.) (Company Profile)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- April 27, 1992
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On April 2, 1991, Mid-South Reclamation Industries Inc. of Smackover gave new meaning to the phrase "burning rubber."
Mid-South had begun recycling used and defective tires in August 1989. The company grinds and processes tires into marketable products such as fuels and rubber turf for playgrounds. Mid-South was the first company of its kind in Arkansas.
But operations came to a halt last spring. A fire was ignited by a piece of overheated equipment in a raw material storage area. The fire burned for three months, destroying $975,000 in processed tire inventory.
Mid-South's cleanup costs were $172,000. The cleanup was completed last month.
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