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Article: PWP Recycling Operation Starts Production
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- The State Journal
- Article date:
- June 5, 2009
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PWP Industries' new, $20 million recycling operation in Davisville started production this week.
The operation will convert polyethyelene terephthalate, or PETE, bottles into resins for food-grade packaging.
The 80,000-square-foot recycling center will employ 30 people initially, said PWP Chairman and CEO Leon Farahnik, and is the first in-house recycling operation for a thermoforming company. Coca-Cola Recycling LLC of Atlanta, a subsidiary of publicly traded Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. and the largest bottler of Coca-Cola products, will he the operation's primary supplier.
"Coca-Cola will supply us with what I call material," Farahnik said, adding they've already completed trial runs and ...