US Plastics Recovery

Name

US Plastics Recovery

Legal name

US Plastics Recovery

Website

https://usprecovery.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

US Plastics Recovery purchases and processes industrial plastic scrap at a 70,000 sq ft Lawrenceville, Georgia facility, converting post-industrial polymer streams into high-purity regrind and certified destruction services for large industrial manufacturers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Plastics Recycling

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (326199), Plastics Product Manufacturing (3261)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821)

akta.pro primary industry

Mechanical Recycling (Wash, Grind, Pelletize) (EUAIAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Post-Industrial Plastics Scrap Recovery & Regrind (IMANAMAB), Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH), Rigid Plastics Recycling (HDPE/PP, Injection/Blow Molded) (EUAIAKAF), Film & Flexible Plastics Recycling (LDPE/LLDPE, Multilayer) (EUAIAKAE), Engineering Plastics Recycling (ABS, PC, PA, POM, PMMA) (EUAIAKAI)

Keywords

• Industrial plastics recycling
• Plastic scrap purchasing
• Toll processing services
• Polymer regrind sales
• Certified destruction services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lawrenceville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Plastic Scrap Purchasing and Processing: USPR purchases industrial plastic scrap from manufacturers and processes it into high-quality regrind materials. Revenue is generated through the margin between acquisition cost of scrap and sale price of processed polymers. The company also provides toll processing services where customers pay for processing their material.
2. Toll Processing Services: Fee-based processing services including shredding, granulating, screening, air-washing, float/sink, water-washing, and baling. Customers pay for processing capacity and the specialized services rendered on their materials.
3. Certified Destruction Services: Provides destruction services for sensitive products including medical devices, with certificates of destruction. Revenue generated through fees based on security level, product type, and required output size.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

US Plastics Recovery purchases industrial plastic scrap from large manufacturers — including purges, parts, pellets, regrind, sheets, films, rolls, powders, and floor sweeps — and processes it through shredding, granulation, magnetic separation, elutriation, float-sink purification, and screening into finished regrind that is clean enough to replace virgin resin. The company also provides toll processing services on customer-owned materials and certified destruction services (including DoD-spec medical device destruction), with shipments distributed globally to automotive and industrial customers.

Product overview

US Plastics Recovery operates as a post-industrial plastics recycling and toll processing facility offering a vertically integrated suite of services. The core offering comprises plastic scrap purchasing, toll processing (shredding, granulation, magnetic separation, elutriation, sink-float purification, and screening), regrind/pellet sales, and destruction services with certificates. The company processes approximately 50 million pounds annually of industrial polymer scrap into quality molding materials for automotive and other industries. Notable proprietary equipment includes the 'Hosenator' (fiber-removal granulation line), multiple Vecoplan shredders, and a real-time MES system. Services are available separately or as an integrated program for large industrial manufacturers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plastic Scrap Purchasing Purchase of industrial plastic scrap (purges, parts, pellets, regrind, sheets, films, rolls, powders, floor sweeps) in PP, LDPE, HIPS, HDPE, PVC, TPO, TPV, TPE, nylon, and other polymers from large industrial manufacturers.
• Regrind & Pellet Sales Sale of finished regrind processed from industrial scrap, cleaned to a quality level sufficient to replace virgin resin. Materials include HDPE, LDPE/LLDPE, HMWPE, PP copolymer/homopolymer, GPPS/LIPS/MIPS/HIPS, ABS, TPO/TPE/TPV, POM, PVC, PMMA, PC, PETE/PETG, K-Resin, and compression molded composites.
• Toll Processing Services Six-stage toll processing workflow for customer-owned polymers and elastomers: shredding (5/8" to 2"), granulation (1/2" to 3/16"), magnetic separation, elutriating (air washing), sink-float separation, and screening. Removes contamination including dust, labels, paints, fibers, films, rocks, talc, and tramp metal.
• Destruction Services Large-scale product and document destruction with Certificates of Destruction, processed to various DoD destruction specifications via two-stage shredding and grinding. Serves military, defense, government, law enforcement, pharmaceutical, banking, and corporate sectors with capacity for millions of pounds per single job.
• Float-Sink/Purification Services Density-based separation that removes rocks, PVC, nylon, wood, cardboard, non-ferrous metals, styrenics, acrylics, POMs, and other heavy contaminants from polymer streams, converting contaminated floor sweeps into molding materials suitable for stringent quality requirements.
• Hosenator Production line that granulates and removes fiber from garden hoses and other types of hoses. Adds 1 million lbs. of monthly granulation capacity as USPR's 11th machine line.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20 years and 1.6 billion pounds of operational refinement
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Vecoplan LLCcoreTechnology or Integration · 20 February 2018Vecoplan is a leading shredder manufacturer. USPR operates multiple Vecoplan machines (52, 62, and 70 inch) in its facility. USPR was chosen to provide shred samples for Vecoplan's display at Plastic Recycling Nashville 2018 and NPE 2015, demonstrating a strong operational relationship. Vecoplan equipment is central to USPR's processing capabilities.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MBA Polymers: Richmond, California-based mechanical recycler of mixed post-consumer and post-industrial plastics into PCR-grade resins. Directly comparable to USPR as a multi-polymer mechanical recycler serving large industrial customers with toll processing and finished regrind/compound output.
• KW Plastics: Troy, Alabama-based recycler and one of the world's largest HDPE/PET recyclers producing PCR resin. Overlaps with USPR in post-industrial HDPE/PP mechanical recycling and sells into the same automotive, molding, and packaging end markets across the Southeast.
• CarbonLite: Mechanical recycler producing food-grade rPET from post-consumer bottles. Comparable to USPR as a large-scale mechanical recycler with proprietary purification lines and end-product resin sales into packaging and consumer goods manufacturers.
• Envision Plastics: Reidsville, North Carolina-based HDPE recycling operation producing PCR resin for blow molding and extrusion. Direct regional Southeast competitor to USPR, serving many of the same large consumer products manufacturers with bottle-to-bottle and injection-grade HDPE.
• Custom Polymers (B. Circular): Louisville, Kentucky-based toll compounder and recycler specializing in toll processing of post-industrial scrap streams — directly comparable business model to USPR's toll grinding, compounding, and regrind sales to industrial customers.
• Avangard Innovative: Houston-based post-industrial and post-consumer plastics recycler with nationwide footprint. Comparable in product breadth (LDPE, HDPE, PP, mixed polymers), service offering (toll processing, regrind, PCR), and large-industrial customer base.
• Merlin Plastics: British Columbia-based post-industrial and post-consumer recycler producing recycled resin for packaging and consumer goods. Comparable in toll processing, multi-polymer mechanical recycling, and supply of regrind/PCR resin into large industrial accounts.

Emerging players

• Reciplas: Spanish mechanical recycler of post-consumer PET bottles into food-grade rPET. Compares to USPR in the mechanical recycling/purification technology stack but focuses on a narrower polymer (PET) and a different geography.

Others

• Vecoplan (equipment supplier perspective): USPR's primary equipment partner for shredders (52", 62", 70" HiTorc). Comparable as a reference comparable for industrial plastics shredding throughput and capital intensity, even though Vecoplan itself is an equipment manufacturer rather than a competing recycler.
• Plastics Recycling Update / Resource Recycling: Industry trade publication that featured USPR as 'Reclaimer in Focus.' Relevant as ecosystem reference for comparable post-industrial mechanical recyclers, pricing benchmarks, and capacity trends in the North American plastics recycling market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/USPRecovery
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/us-plastics-recovery

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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