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Article: Recycling News.(Commercial Plastics Recycling's new $1.8 mn, 50,000-square-foot facility)(International Pages)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Plastics News
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- September 9, 2002
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Demand prompts LaVergne to expand
ANJOU, QUEBEC - PET recycler and compounder LaVergne Groupe is adding a third twin-screw extrusion line and more materials-handling equipment to satisfy increased demand, primarily for fiberglass-filled, recycled PET resins for the automotive market.
The new equipment will boost LaVergne's capacity by about 20 million pounds a year at its Anjou headquarters, and give it more than 100 million pounds of total capacity, said Larry Koester, vice president of marketing and sales. The line will be operating by year-end.
``This is where the growth in our business is, in the higher-tech resins,'' he said.
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