Founded in Clyde, Ohio, in 1998, Evergreen recycles post-consumer PET bottles into recycled PET resin for packaging manufacturers. From its first 75,000-square-foot plant and 35 employees, the company has grown to four North American locations with capacity to process more than 4.4 billion bottles and produce 125 million pounds of food-grade rPET annually. AI-enabled sorting robotics support Evergreen’s effort to capture more usable material and keep PET in circulation.
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Phoenix Technologies International, LLCPhoenix Technologies International turns post-consumer plastic bottles into clean, consistent recycled PET resin pellets at its 90,000-square-foot Ohio facility. The company has focused exclusively on PET recycling and pelletizing for more than two decades, using patented purification and fine-mesh filtration technology to make rPET suitable for food and non-food packaging. Its Fairview Avenue facility is ISO certified and produces approximately 80 million pounds of rPET annually.BOWLING GREEN, OH
PET Processors, L.L.CCreated in 1986 as a stand-alone business, privately held PET Processors grew out of a Northeast Ohio plant with roots reaching back to 1937. The company is known for 35 years of polymer-processing expertise and has been recycling PET since 1987, serving industrial customers from a 440,000-plus-square-foot facility on more than 175 acres. PET Processors holds ISO 9001:2015 registration.PAINESVILLE, OH
Papier-MettlerKnown for building its business around post-consumer recycling, Papier-Mettler has expanded that work since 1992. The company makes packaging for food, retail, and industrial customers, using recovered plastic and paper in closed-loop programs that turn waste back into new packaging.MOOREFIELD, WV
Graham PackagingGraham Packaging has been making custom plastic bottles and containers since 1970, when it began by converting metal motor-oil cans to plastic. Headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the company now operates more than 70 locations worldwide and produces millions of bottles each year, pairing bottle design and engineering with manufacturing close to customers’ filling facilities. Its York-based Graham Recycling Company has made bottle-to-bottle recycling part of the business since 1990, diverting more than 300 million plastic containers from landfills annually.LANCASTER, PA