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COMPANY NEWS
E-plastics recycling company
expands product line
proach to plastic composite boards: Rather than
rigorously separating, extruding or pelletizing
the different resins contained in electronic de-
vices, they use recipes and processes adapted
to the entire mixture.
The proportion of those polymers among all de-
vices stays fairly constant, Clayton said. Even
as OEMs’ products are “rapidly changing,” in
practice that just means more plastic in a given
item, he added. As a result, a pound of inbound
plastic creates a pound of product, with boards
-plastics processor Synergy Electronics that are more rigid, durable and thermally stable
Recycling and its subsidiary, RePolyTex, than more widespread types of recycled-plastic
Ehave expanded their product line of com- lumber.
posite boards made with recycled e-plastics and
recently earned recognition from the Carolina “It’s all about the yield,” Clayton said, quipping
Recycling Association. that he’ll have the phrase on his gravestone. “We
use the strengths of the polymers we’ve got.”
Both companies are based in Madison, North
Carolina, with Synergy processing electron- “By eliminating the energy-intensive separation
ics into various material streams and sending processes, their approach significantly reduces
the plastics to RePolyTex to make into 4-by-8 the carbon footprint associated with plastic re-
boards of various strengths and uses. cycling,” the association wrote. “Furthermore,
the production of the Mamba boards requires
Dubbed Mamba Board, the product line has less energy compared to manufacturing tradi-
grown from the original, 100% recycled board tional materials, further minimizing their environ-
to include three more products over the past mental impact.”
several months that feature external fiberglass
reinforcement and other adjustments, said Meg- Synergy has revamped its facilities and increased
an Tabb, director of compliance at RePolyTex. throughput in recent years and is now producing
Their applications include specialty vehicles like around 500,000 pounds of plastic per month,
trailers and boats as well as other outdoor and Tabb said. RePolyTex, meanwhile, can consume
marine structures. about twice that amount, which is supplement-
ed with other domestic sources, including post-
“The core board is the same,” RePolyTex Chief industrial scrap plastic from OEMs. And it could
Technology Officer Lee Clayton said. “What quickly scale up to twice that amount again, de-
we’ve found is not one size fits all.” pending on growing demand, Clayton said.
Synergy and RePolyTex take an uncommon ap- Source – E-SCRAP NEWS
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