2023 Gold Sponsors
Alcamare International Recycling Group
Guanajuato, Mexico
alcamare.com
Alcamare is the largest collector of post-consumer plastics in Mexico, with 15 collection centers and one processing plant. We can offer hot-washed flakes and pellets, HDPE (food grade), and PP and PET (food grade).
Baerlocher USA
Cincinnati, Ohio
baerlocher.com
Baerlocher is leading the way in sustainable solutions.
Bandera US
Warrenville, Illinois
luigibandera.com
Bandera is a world leader in the extrusion industry, supplying complete extrusion lines for the production of blown film lines, flat die rigid film, sheets and recycling lines.
BASF Plastic Additives enables mechanical recycling with its IrgaCycle™ line of solutions, which can help increase the use of recycled polyolefins in plastic articles, while also improving the quality and performance of material.
Chemetall: The Surface Treatment global business unit of the Coatings division of BASF, operating under the Chemetall brand, is a leading supplier of applied surface treatments and services for a vast range of industries and end markets. Our global specialists are locally available, providing focused, passionate and accountable support to increase process efficiency and sustainability.
Trinamix: Trinamix, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, enables on-the-spot plastic sorting with its mobile near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy solution. Using Trinamix technology, the composition of plastic parts can be rapidly identified using a handheld device that combines patented NIR detectors, sophisticated data analysis and a user-friendly mobile app.
BHS
Eugene, Oregon
bulkhandlingsystems.com
Headquartered in Eugene, Ore., BHS is a worldwide leader in the innovative design, engineering, manufacturing and installation of sorting systems and components for the solid waste, recycling, waste-to-energy, and construction and demolition industries. Wholly owned subsidiaries include Nihot (Amsterdam), NRT (Nashville, Tenn.) and Zero Waste Energy. BHS is also the home of Max-AI technology, a breakthrough artificial intelligence that identifies materials, makes intelligent decisions and directs equipment such as robotic sorters. Clients around the globe choose BHS because of its experience, dedication to cutting-edge technology, quality construction and durability, and unmatched customer service. BHS has built some of the largest and most durable MRFs in the world – and they are achieving the highest throughput, recovery and purity rates in the industry.
BlackBridge Investments
Huntington, New York
blackbridgeinvestments.com
BlackBridge Investments is a recycling brokerage that specializes in trading plastic, paper and polyurethane foam. We build relationships for the long haul, based on mutual trust, fast problem solving and tech-driven innovation.
BritAS Recycling-Anlagen GMBH
Hanau, Germany
britas.de
BritAS Recycling-Anlagen GmbH manufactures fully automatic belt melt filtration technology in the German city of Hanau. Since 1993, BritAS has been renowned for their origin ABMF technology for post-consumer applications, which is installed at most of the global leading recycling companies. ABMF technology is available in several different versions for use in different applications. All those types are operated with different polyolefin materials and focus on lowest melt loss and thus economic operation costs. For polyester and low viscosity materials, the award-winning ABMF-PET-C supplements the ABMF technology. For post-industrial applications, BritAS offers their piston screen technology to complete the product portfolio.
Chesapeake Materials
Mayo, Maryland
cmsplastic.com
Chesapeake Materials is a leading supplier of plastic raw materials, with deep experience and expertise handling recycled plastics and innovating solutions for recycling problems. Our customer base spans across all segments of the industry, including injection molders, extruders, blow molders, roto molders and recyclers. With a focus on supporting large-volume ongoing programs, we moved over 120 million pounds of plastic in 2022. Our seasoned team is professional, courteous, knowledgeable and ready to work hard to find solutions.
Custom Polymers
Charlotte, North Carolina
custompolymers.com
Custom Polymers is one of the largest recyclers and reprocessors of all types and forms of post-industrial and post-consumer plastic scrap in North America. A team of experienced professionals, a solid financial base and a dedication to customer service have helped Custom Polymers develop and maintain long-term partnerships with both buyers and suppliers worldwide.
EREMA
Ansfelden, Austria
erema.net
EREMA specializes in the development and manufacturing of plastics recycling systems and components. Founded in 1983, the company is now the world market leader. Some 7,000 EREMA recycling systems are now in use across the globe. With subsidiaries in the U.S., China and Africa, as well as around another 50 representatives on all five continents, the company offers a reliable network to promote a circular economy and implement customized plastics recycling solutions for customers around the world.
Kal-Polymers
Mississauga, Ontario
kalpolymers.com
Kal-Polymers is a leading compounder of recycled plastics. The company has unique capabilities to support sustainability and has the technology to remove paint from auto parts, remove cross-linking agents from dashboard skids and de-metalize BOPP film/auto parts, to name a few. Kal-Polymers buys scrap in any form and reprocesses/compounds PP, TPO, PE, PC, PC/ABS and ABS.
KW Plastics
Troy, Alabama
kwplastics.com
KW Plastics is the world's largest plastics recycler and post-consumer resin supplier for HDPE and PP.
Lindner Recyclingtech America
Statesville, North Carolina
lindner.com
Lindner’s multi-stage processing facility for post-consumer plastic is in a class of its own. Perfectly matched components guarantee high output quality. Robust high-end shredding, washing and drying components ensure smooth 24/7 operation with low maintenance and consistently high throughput. It has never been so easy to guarantee the ideal input for subsequent processes.
MAAG Americas
Eagle Rock, Virginia
maag.com
Maag Americas offers customized product solutions and services to maximize your performance and create a competitive advantage. We offer proven application expertise and unmatched capabilities in engineering and manufacturing to support you in a way that best fits your individual needs. Our standard products include dry-cut and wet-cut strand pelletizer, underwater pelletizers, gear pumps for polymers, extrusion and industrial applications, screen changers and filtration systems, pulverizers and color mixing systems, centrifugal pellet dryers, and pellet production systems for multiple polymer and recycling applications.
Merlin Plastics
Delta, British Columbia
merlinplastics.com
Merlin Plastics is a recycler and processor of post-consumer and post-industrial plastic packaging. Located in Delta, British Columbia, Merlin Plastics is the headquarters for the Merlin Group of Companies, with sorting and processing facilities across Canada and the U.S. Specializing in PET, HDPE, LDPE and PP, our high-value, high-quality recycled plastic pellet and flake are being integrated into various commercial and industrial applications as alternatives to virgin resin, allowing manufacturers to produce similar or other consumer goods.
PCR Recycling
McKinney, Texas
Focused on providing certified, post-consumer, sustainable supply streams of material to the entire plastics industry.
Pellenc ST America
Pineville, North Carolina
pellencst.com
Pellenc ST designs, manufactures and sells optical sorting machines for waste management and recycling industries.
Polyvel
Hammonton, New Jersey
polyvel.com
Polyvel develops and manufactures specialty additive masterbatches for a wide variety of end users in the areas of nonwovens, film, sheet, compounding, reprocessing/recycling, injection molding and blow molding.
Republic Services
Phoenix, Arizona
republicservices.com
As a leader in the environmental services industry, Republic Services is committed to industry-leading initiatives and solutions that support circularity and decarbonization and help customers meet their own sustainability goals. Republic is advancing plastics circularity through the development of its Polymer Center, the nation’s first integrated plastics recycling facility. This marks the first time a single U.S. company will manage the entire plastics recycling stream, from curbside collection to production of high-quality recycled resins for consumer packaging.
Schenck Process
Kansas City, Missouri
schenckprocess.com
With a full line of pneumatic transfer technologies, Schenck Process can convey recycled plastics and other major and minor materials to the extruder. Utilizing our MechaTron® gravimetric feeding capabilities or Simplex Feeder, which is designed for light, fluffy materials such as flakes, fibers, organic or inorganic, virgin or recycled materials, the options for feeding hard-to-handle materials to an extruder are endless. Once pelletizing is complete, Schenck Process can pneumatically transfer the pellets to storage, packaging or bulk loadout stations. A full line of dust collection equipment is available for keeping your plant safe from harmful airborne materials.
Sorema
Anzano Del Parco, Italy
sorema.it
SOREMA, a division of PREVIERO, offers close to 40 years of experience to its clients. It has become a point of reference in the design, manufacturing and installation of plastic recycling plants for PET and HDPE bottles, PE film, PP film and raffia, fibers and other products made from PE, PP, PET, PA, PS, ABS and others. As a leader in the recycling of packaging and post-consumer materials, Sorema offers a wide range of solutions, including systems for cold/hot/chemical washing, pre-washing, material and color sorting, wet grinding, drying, conveying and storing, continuous agglomeration and extrusion. Upon request, Sorema can also offer modules for upgrading existing plants.
WM
East Northport, New York
wm.com
WM is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Our belief in a sustainable future drives everything we do. Millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers rely on us for collection, recycling and disposal services. We’re the industry’s top producer of post-consumer materials and the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill natural gas. Our fleet of 11,000 natural gas trucks is the largest of its kind. We have more gas-to-electricity plants than anyone else in the business. And we’re just getting started. To learn more about how WM is working for a sustainable tomorrow, visit sustainability.wm.com.