Article: SUREnergy helping Encore catch the wind.(News)

Byline: Dan Hockensmith

A windmill that soars 100 feet above its corporate headquarters near Lake Erie has helped move Encore Plastics Corp. in a new direction.

The Sandusky, Ohio-based supplier of paint sundries is adding wind energy to its portfolio of plastics injection molding, extrusion and thermoforming as a means of saving energy and as a side business.

Encore last spring became a partner in SUREnergy (which stands for Sustainable Use of Renewable Energy) LLC, a Sandusky-based venture to oversee the selling, financing, installing and servicing of a range of wind-driven turbines from 1 kilowatt to 1 megawatt in size. SUREnergy plans to ...

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