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URRC wades into global waters with Mexico PET recycling site.(Special Report)(United Resource Recovery Corp)(Personal Electronic Transactor )

Plastics News, May, 2004 by Toloken, Steve

Byline: Steve Toloken United Resource Recovery Corp.'s recycling strategy might be described as "develop locally, act globally.'' The Spartanburg company is not a big player in the U.S. market. It only has about $6.7 million in PET recycling sales, 44 employees and a small 10 million-pound-per-year pilot PET recycling plant.

But its footprint is global. Using the company's patented technology, an approach it calls partial depolymerization, URRC is building a large PET recycling plant in Mexico for Coca-Cola de Mexico and several partners, on top of two large plants in Europe that currently use its technology. When the Mexico plant comes online late this year or early in 2005, the small South Carolina firm's technology will be used in plants with more...

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