What Custom Polymers, Inc. does

Custom Polymers, Inc. is a privately held, Charlotte, North Carolina-based plastic recycling and reprocessing company founded in 1996 that buys, sells, and processes post-industrial and post-consumer plastic scrap into recycled raw materials and finished products. The company operates a corporate group comprising Custom Polymers, Inc. (core recycling), Custom Polymers PET (FDA-qualified post-consumer PET resin for direct food contact), Custom Synthetic Fibers (polyester staple fiber production in Rogersville, Alabama), and Custom Polymers Hong Kong Limited (Pan-Asian divisional headquarters in Kowloon), collectively serving customers in over 50 countries with stated annual throughput of more than 150,000 metric tons of material.

The company's underlying technology centers on mechanical recycling processes — grinding, shredding, pelletizing, and densifying — applied across all major thermoplastic resin families (PET, PE, PVC, PP, PS, nylon/PA, polycarbonate/PC) and a wide range of input forms including virgin off-spec material, reprocessed pellets, regrind, purge, film, parts, sheet, and floorsweeps. Output forms span virgin and off-grade pellets, reprocessed pellets, regrind, densified material, clean PET flake, recycled baled staple fiber, and FDA-qualified post-consumer PET resin. Operational facilities include a Charlotte, NC headquarters and processing/distribution site, a Houston, TX Latin America divisional headquarters, the Rogersville, AL affiliate manufacturing site, and the Hong Kong regional office.

The business model is primarily a commodity materials trading and processing operation, with revenue generated through transactional sales of recycled plastic materials (priced per pound via quote-based contact forms) complemented by professional services revenue from customized recycling program design and bundled global logistics (international and domestic freight, container, bulk, and LTL). The go-to-market is enterprise field sales with a multi-lingual sales team targeting manufacturing companies as the primary customer segment and municipalities as a secondary segment. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and there is no disclosed headcount trend, funding activity, or M&A history in the available data.

Name

Custom Polymers, Inc.

Legal name

Custom Polymers, Inc.

Website

https://custompolymers.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Custom Polymers, Inc. is a private Charlotte, NC-based plastic recycler and reprocessor founded in 1996 that processes all major thermoplastics into recycled feedstock and finished products, serving manufacturers and municipalities across more than 50 countries via affiliated operations in North America and Asia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plastic Recycling and Reprocessing

NAICS

Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing (325211), Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing (326), Resin, Synthetic Rubber, and Artificial and Synthetic Fibers and Filaments Manufacturing (3252)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821), Plastics Products, Nec (3089)

akta.pro primary industry

Reprocessed Resin & Recycled Polymer Compounding (PCR/PIR Compounds) (IMANAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH), Recycled Plastic Compounds (PCR/PIR) (IMANABAE), Rigid Plastics Recycling (HDPE/PP, Injection/Blow Molded) (EUAIAKAF)

Keywords

• Plastic recycling services
• Recycled plastic pellets
• Thermoplastic reprocessing
• Post-consumer scrap processing
• Recycled PET resin

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlotte

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Plastic Material Sales: Custom Polymers buys, sells and processes post-consumer and post-industrial plastic materials. The company sells over 150,000 MT annually of materials including prime grade, off grade, overstock, regrind as well as scrap in all forms. Revenue is generated through the sale of recycled plastic materials in various forms (pellets, regrind, densified material) to manufacturers.
2. Custom Recycling Services: The company provides customized recycling program services for companies and municipalities, including tailoring recycling programs to fit business, operational or municipal needs, processing materials into quality feedstock for global consumption.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Custom Polymers, Inc. buys, sells, and processes post-consumer and post-industrial thermoplastic scrap into recycled raw materials and finished products. The company handles all types and forms of thermoplastics (PET, PE, PVC, PP, PS, nylon, polycarbonate, and other commodity and engineering grade plastics) in forms including virgin, off-spec, reprocessed pellets, regrind, purge, film, parts, sheet, and floorsweeps, processing them into clean recycled feedstock sold to manufacturers worldwide.

Product overview

Custom Polymers, Inc. is a plastic recycling and reprocessing company founded in 1996, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, with operations spanning North America, Latin America, and Pan Asia (via Custom Polymers Hong Kong Limited). The company operates as a single unified recycling platform with affiliated manufacturing capabilities (Custom Synthetic Fibers in Alabama) that processes all types of thermoplastics including PET, PE, PVC, PP, PS, Nylon, and PC. The core product portfolio consists of recycled plastic materials in various forms: virgin/off-grade pellets, reprocessed pellets, regrind, densified material, and post-industrial/post-commercial/post-consumer scrap. The affiliated operations extend the offering to finished products including FDA-qualified post-consumer PET resin for food contact, clean PET flake, and recycled polyester staple fiber for industrial applications. The company complements its material products with comprehensive services including custom recycling program design, processing (grinding, shredding, pelletizing, densifying), and global logistics management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Virgin and Off-Grade Virgin Pellets Virgin and off-grade virgin plastic pellets - primary plastic resin materials that are either first-use or slightly off-specification, sold to manufacturers.
• Reprocessed Pellets Reprocessed plastic pellets created from recycled materials through grinding, shredding, and pelletizing processes for manufacturing customers.
• Regrind Ground recycled plastic material in granular form suitable for reprocessing into new plastic products.
• Densified Material Compacted and densified recycled plastic materials for efficient storage, handling, and transportation, sold to manufacturing buyers.
• Post-Industrial Scrap Recycled plastic materials sourced from industrial manufacturing processes, including purge, film, parts, sheet, and floorsweeps, processed into quality feedstock.
• Post-Consumer Scrap Recycled plastic materials sourced from consumer waste streams, processed into clean recycled feedstock for manufacturing applications.
• Post-Commercial Scrap Recycled plastic materials sourced from commercial waste streams, processed into quality feedstock for global consumption.
• Clean PET Flake Clean polyethylene terephthalate (PET) flakes processed from post-consumer and post-industrial sources, produced by affiliate Custom Polymers PET.
• Post-Consumer PET Resin (FDA Qualified) Post-consumer PET resin qualified by the FDA for 100% recycled content for direct food contact applications, produced by affiliate Custom Polymers PET.
• Recycled Baled Staple Fiber Environmentally sustainable polyester staple fiber produced by affiliate Custom Synthetic Fibers in Rogersville, Alabama, for automotive, home furnishings, apparel, and consumer goods industries.
• Custom Recycling Solutions Services Comprehensive recycling program services including tailoring recycling programs to fit business, operational, or municipal needs; processing materials through grinding, shredding, pelletizing, and densifying into quality feedstock.
• Global Logistics Services International and domestic freight logistics including scheduling, documentation, bookings, weight verification, tracking, and security requirements, with specialized handling for dry van, containers, bulk, and LTL shipments.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Custom Polymers PETcoreOthersAffiliate company specializing in PET recycling and processing. Part of the corporate group of companies providing comprehensive recycling services including FDA-qualified recycled PET resin for direct food contact.
• Custom Polymers Hong Kong LimitedcoreOthersPan Asian division headquarters providing sales service, logistics support and after-sales service to customers in the region. Bridge to the Americas and Europe with a solid financial background and professional team with distinguished experience.
• Custom Synthetic FiberscoreOthersPolyester fiber production facility located in Rogersville, Alabama producing environmentally sustainable products for automotive, home furnishings, apparel and consumer goods industries. Produces recycled baled staple fiber and clean PET flake.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• KW Plastics: Largest US post-consumer plastic recycler (PCR polypropylene and polyethylene compounds) directly competing with Custom Polymers in reprocessed resin pellet production and Toll/custom compounding services.
• MBA Polymers: Multi-stream recycled plastics compounder producing PCR grades from complex waste streams (automotive, WEEE, appliance) — directly comparable activity to Custom Polymers' broad thermoplastics reprocessing business.
• CarbonLite Renewables: US-based recycler producing food-grade rPET pellets for beverage bottles — directly comparable to Custom Polymers PET's FDA-qualified post-consumer PET resin product.
• Phoenix Technologies International: Producer of food-contact-grade rPET resin using a patented process; directly comparable to Custom Polymers PET in FDA-qualified post-consumer PET resin for bottles and thermoformed packaging.
• Avangard Innovative: US post-consumer plastic recycling company producing rPET and rHDPE flake and pellets for food-grade and industrial applications; directly comparable in scale and product mix to Custom Polymers.
• St. Jude Polymer Corp: Reprocessor and compounder of post-industrial and post-consumer plastics (PP, PE, PS) into reprocessed pellets — a direct competitor to Custom Polymers in mechanically reprocessed resin pellets.

Broad incumbents

• Indorama Ventures: Global PET resin producer with the world's largest rPET platform (recycling assets across US, Europe, Asia) — directly competes with Custom Polymers PET in rPET resin and competes for PET scrap feedstock globally.
• ALPLA Group: Global plastics packaging manufacturer with significant in-house rPET/PCR recycling operations (ALPLA.recycling) — competing with Custom Polymers in PCR pellet supply and recycled-content packaging.
• Veolia Environmental Services: Global environmental services giant with plastics recycling divisions across Europe, the US, and Asia; overlapping with Custom Polymers in post-industrial and post-consumer plastic scrap collection and reprocessing.
• Waste Management (WM): North America's largest waste and recycling company operating Plastics Recycling facilities producing PCR resins, competing with Custom Polymers for post-consumer feedstock and end markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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