Recycling Associates adds plastics capacity

Lenoir, North Carolina-based Recycling Associates LLC says it has signed a lease that will allow it to add a 25,000-square-foot engineering grade plastics grinding facility adjacent to its current 200,000-square-foot plant.

According to Recycling Associates Managing Partner Joe Miceli, the company will use the additional space to grind and process engineering grade resins including acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polycarbonate/ABS, polyamide 6 (PA6), PA 66 filled and “other higher end resins.”

The company describes itself as a “full-service plastic and metal recycler with grinding, shredding and metal separation capabilities.”

Recycling Associates currently handles polypropylene, high-density polyethylene and high-impact polystyrene and concentrates on recycling “postindustrial materials from some of North Carolina’s largest generators of scrap,” Miceli says.