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This is a limited time offer so act now. started in the basement of his home Plastics recycler SirNaik LLC a n d s t i l l (Booth 33034) is investing $10 r u n s a s million and creating a unit called group presGreen Research Center in Park- ident and ersburg, W.Va., with the aim of CEO. After initially developing the best processes to recycle post-consumer plastics in concentrating on brokering and marketing industrial a closed-loop system. The 200,000-square-foot re- plastic scrap overseas, IEI began search center, housed in a build- grinding and baling operations in ing the company acquired last 1990, then added industrial plassummer, already has projects un- tics recycling operations. Today, IEI and SirNaik recycle der way that are looking at how both industrial best to recycle plastics — mostly thermoformed ‘This is my engineered resins packaging materi— and post-conal, electronics dream project. It sumer plastics in equipment and will have every several plants, all medical prodof them within 40 ucts. recycling process miles of each When the cenyou can think of other in an area ter is fully operaunder one roof.’ of West Virginia tional this fall, it that stretches will house equipSaurabh Naik from Parkersburg ment for nearly SirNaik LLC to Ravenswood 25 different procwhere a number esses involved in plastics recycling, as well as a lab of chemical companies that make to certify plastics scrap for com- and use engineered polymer panies that want to use recycled resins are located. In addition to IEI and Green Reresins. “This is my dream project,” search Center, SirNaik companies said Saurabh Naik, founder, own- today include: Polymer Alliance er and CEO of SirNaik, in an inter- Services LLC in Washington, view at the company’s headquar- W.Va.; Total Recycling Solutions ters in Columbia, Md., prior to LLC in Ravenswood; Green Loop NPE2012. “It will have every recy- Exports LLC in Columbia; and cling process you can think of un- Green Sustainable Solutions LLC, a Parkersburg company that was der one roof. “The Green Research Center called Greenpak Inc. when Sirwill give the industry the oppor- Naik purchased it in 2010. Polymer Alliance Service pertunity to bring in any products that they would like to establish a forms much of the company’s closed-loop recycling system for, plastics recycling work. Its facilior products that they would just ty has grown in size from 100,000 like to find a way to recycle,” he square feet to 400,000 square feet in the past 10 years and has the said. “No recyclable material should capacity to recycle 90 million end up in a landfill,” said Naik, pounds of material annually. Extrusion and compounding who pointed out that only about 10-15 percent of the 7 billion work is done in Ravenswood by pounds of electronics waste is Total Recycling Solutions. That currently recycled and that only facility, which has more than 10 percent of the 6 billion pounds 100,000 square feet of manufacof annual carpeting waste is cur- turing space and 100,000 square feet of warehouse space, is unrently recycled. “By building partnerships with dergoing an expansion that will companies engaged in closed- add another 100,000 square feet loop recycling and product stew- of space. “That plant is doing extremely ardship, hard-to-recycle materials will be kept from landfills and well,” said Naik. “The biggest find new life as reusable source change in that facility is that [eventually it] is going to be materials,” he said. SirNaik was founded 25 years pretty much all post-consumer ago as Naik Group of Industries material, as 50 percent of what with one company, Intercontinen- we are running through it now is tal Export Import Inc., which Naik See SirNaik, Page 30 By Mike Verespej PLASTICS NEWS STAFF *based on models up to 35 lbs/hr DRI-AIR Industries, Inc. w w w. d r i - a i r. c o m T: 860.627.5110 | E: sales@dri-air.com NPE Booth 3119 P R O U D LY M A D E I N T H E U S A  http://www.maenner-group.com http://www.maenner-group.com http://www.sas-automation.com http://www.dri-air.com http://www.sas-automation.com

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