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By Audrey LaForest
Plastics News Staff
Flat die maker Cloeren Inc. is
back in business after the company's headquarters and two facilities in Orange, Texas, were hit by
Hurricane Harvey last August.
More than 4 feet of standing
water filled Cloeren headquarters for nearly a week, and the
building lost power after the catastrophic storm struck the area.
The company's two other facilities remained dry but without
electricity.
"One of the facilities was offline
for the better part of a week,"
George Hall, chief operating officer at Cloeren, said in a May 9
interview at the company's booth
during NPE2018. "The second facility, it was longer. It was probably [without power] closer to two
weeks."
Hall said the unfortunate situation impacted "more than just
manufacturing," describing a dis-

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After the storm
Cloerin Inc.'s Orange,
Texas, headquarters was
rebuilt after it was filled
with more than 4 feet of
standing water for nearly
a week after Hurricane
Harvey struck the area.
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Plastics News photo by Joe Wilssens

Cloeren back in
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placed engineering staff sitting in
desks on a plant floor where there
was no network cabling.
"There were no phones set up,"
added Alicia Cloeren, the company's director.
Many of the company's 375 employees were displaced from not
just their place of work, but also
their homes.
"We had to take into consideration that they needed to evacuate and also find another place
to live, so some of them did not
return for quite some time," Cloeren said.
The company still has employees that are not back in their
homes, she added.
It took days for the company
to figure out how to deal with the
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Cloeren Inc. Director Alicia Cloeren, left, and COO George Hall pose with the company's 5,435 millimeter
Refles Die and 55-layer NanoLayer Feedblock at the firm's NPE2018 booth.

Resin suppliers announce aggressive recycling goals
By Jim Johnson
Plastics News Staff
U.S. plastic resin makers are out
with an ambitious set of goals to
end plastics packaging waste in
the country in a little more than
a generation.

Steve Russell, vice president of
plastics at the American Chemistry Council, readily admits the
goals are aggressive and might
need to be altered over time.
But he said it is important for
his group and its plastics-making
members to put a target date on

the goals.
"These are stretch goals. And
we are going to get there through
innovation and cooperation. I
want to stress that technology is
going to play a role here. And that
means dramatically improved
sortation so that we get better

bales with better value and lower residuals," he said on a May 9
conference call to discuss ACC's
vision.
Specifically, members of the
Plastics division at the trade
group have a goal of reusing, recycling or recovering all plastics

packaging by 2040.
They also revealed an interim
goal of having all plastics packaging be recyclable or recoverable
by 2030.
And, finally, they want all Plastics division member sites in the
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