Plastic Recyclers Southeast

What Plastic Recyclers Southeast does

Plastic Recyclers Southeast, Inc. (PRSEI) is a post-industrial plastic recycling and compounding company incorporated in 1991 and headquartered in Decatur, Alabama. The firm buys plastic scrap (parts, pellets, regrind, purges, films, supersacks and similar post-industrial materials) from manufacturers and resells processed material into a global buyer network, while also providing custom toll services such as shredding, grinding, granulating, custom destruction, and aspiration. Customers are concentrated in original equipment manufacturers and adjacent plastics producers across appliances, automotive, electronics, aerospace, chemicals, environmental services, and general manufacturing, with named relationships including GE Appliances, 3M, LG Electronics, Hewlett Packard, Toray, Daiken, Ineos Styrolution, Hexcel, Stericycle, and Georgia Pacific.

PRSEI operates approximately 600,000 square feet across four locations in Decatur and Trinity, Alabama; Germantown, Tennessee; and Menomonie, Wisconsin, and processes an average of 50 million pounds of material per year. The company differentiates through PRITS (Plastic Recyclers Inventory Tracking System), a proprietary web-based database with mobile interface that tracks each unit of customer material through shipping, receiving, sorting, processing, re-appropriation, and destruction, with three major version releases (2007, 2013, 2020). Headcount is approximately 50, and the firm is privately held, with ownership concentrated in management following founder Henry Bragg's 2023 passing and successor Grant McKelvey's continuation as Owner & CEO.

The business model combines transaction-based buying and selling of recycled plastic material with transaction-based toll processing fees, billed at minimum 20,000 lb shipment sizes with 10-day payment terms for export and 30-day for domestic shipments. Distribution is direct B2B through dedicated account managers in Alabama, Tennessee, and Wisconsin; the firm recruits independent sales representatives with established plastics-industry books of business on commission. Marketing is led by the prsei.com website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Vimeo video content that showcase the service portfolio and the PRITS platform.

Name

Plastic Recyclers Southeast

Legal name

Plastic Recyclers Southeast, Inc.

Website

https://prsei.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Plastic Recyclers Southeast (PRSEI) is a post-industrial plastic recycler and compounder founded in 1991 that buys, processes, and resells commercial-grade plastic scrap for manufacturers across appliances, electronics, aerospace, chemicals, and industrial sectors from four US facilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Plastic Recycling

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (56292)

SIC

Plastics Products, Nec (3089)

akta.pro primary industry

Post-Industrial Plastics Scrap Recovery & Regrind (IMANAMAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recycled & Reprocessed Polymer Resin Manufacturing (rPET, rPP, rPE; PCR/PIR resins) (IMANAAAH), Plastics Sorting & Recovery Facilities (PRF) (EUAIADAE)

Keywords

• Post-industrial plastic recycling
• Plastic compounding services
• Industrial plastic shredding
• Plastic material trading
• Plastic grinding pelletizing

Headquarters

HQ city

Decatur

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Plastic Material Sales: PRSEI operates as both buyer and seller of post-industrial plastics. They purchase plastic scrap from manufacturers (parts, pellets, regrind, purges, films, supersacks) and sell processed materials to buyers worldwide. Payment terms are typically 10 days for export shipments and 30 days for domestic shipments.
2. Toll Services: Provides custom toll services including shredding, grinding, granulating, custom destruction, aspiration, and other processing services for customer materials.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

PRSEI is a post-industrial plastics recycler and compounder that buys post-industrial plastic scrap from manufacturers and sells processed recycled plastic to buyers worldwide. It operates approximately 600,000 SF of facilities for grinding, pelletizing, shredding, baling, and compounding, and offers custom toll processing (shredding, grinding, granulating, custom destruction, aspiration) at four sites in Alabama, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Product overview

PRSEI is a post-industrial plastic recycler and compounder offering a portfolio of services centered on material recycling and landfill diversion. The core offering consists of three integrated capabilities: (1) Industrial Recycling Services providing grinding, pelletizing, shredding, baling, and compounding; (2) PRITS (Plastic Recyclers Inventory Tracking System), a proprietary web-based tracking and reporting platform; and (3) Materials Processing and Trading for commercial-grade plastics across multiple polymer types. The company operates approximately 600,000 SF of facilities processing an average of 50,000,000 lbs per year.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• PRITS: Plastic Recyclers Inventory Tracking System - proprietary web-based database tool allowing customers to track their material and generate customizable reports in real-time.

Products and services

• Industrial Recycling Services Post-industrial plastic recycling services including grinding, pelletizing, shredding, baling, and compounding of various plastic materials, with material acquisition, collection, custom toll services, and tracking/reporting for manufacturers and industrial companies.
• PRITS (Plastic Recyclers Inventory Tracking System) Proprietary web-based database tool that allows PRSEI customers to track their material in real-time and generate customizable reports across shipping, receiving, sorting, processing, re-appropriation, and destruction stages of the recycling process, accessible via browser and mobile phone interface.
• Materials Processing and Trading Procurement, processing, and sale of commercial-grade plastics including polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene, polycarbonate, ABS, acrylic, TPO/TPE, and PET in various forms from OEMs, resin producers, injection molders, extruders, film producers, and textile manufacturers, with 20,000 lb minimum shipment size and domestic/global distribution.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50,000,000 lbs of plastic materials processed per year on average
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• KW Plastics: Largest recycler of polyolefins in North America, processing post-industrial and post-consumer PP and HDPE into PCR/PIR resins. Direct competitor in recycled resin manufacturing and scrap trading serving similar automotive, packaging, and consumer goods customers.
• MBA Polymers: Recycles engineering plastics (ABS, PC, PP, PS) from end-of-life durable goods into PCR resins. Operates multi-region processing facilities comparable to PRSEI's footprint and competes for similar OEM scrap supply.
• Custom Polymers (Meridian Polymers): Toll processing and recycling of post-industrial plastics including grinding, compounding, and material trading. Closely aligned with PRSEI's integrated toll services and recycled resin trading business.
• Envision Plastics (Biffa): Operates large-scale HDPE bottle-to-bottle recycling; now part of Biffa. Competes in adjacent recycled resin markets and supplies packaging and consumer goods OEMs that overlap with PRSEI's customer base.
• CarbonLite: One of the largest PET recyclers in North America, producing food-grade rPET for beverage and consumer goods customers. Represents a comparable scale recycling operation, though focused on post-consumer PET rather than post-industrial.
• Revolution Plastics: Post-consumer and post-industrial LDPE/LLDPE film recycler producing PCR resins for blown film and packaging applications. Competes for similar scrap supply from packaging and extrusion customers.
• Good Plastics: Post-industrial plastic scrap broker and recycler serving North American manufacturers; comparable in scale and business model to PRSEI's trading operations.

Regional players

• Recylex: European plastic recycling group recovering post-industrial and post-consumer plastics into recycled polymers. Comparable in vertical scope but operates in Europe rather than North America.

Broad incumbents

• Stericycle: Large publicly traded waste services company focused on regulated waste streams; PRSEI lists Stericycle as a customer. Overlaps with PRSEI in industrial waste handling but specializes in regulated/medical waste.
• Waste Management (WM): Largest North American waste and recycling services provider with substantial post-industrial and post-consumer plastics recycling operations. A potential competitor for high-volume enterprise accounts and an acquirer of regional recyclers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/PlasticRecyclersSoutheast
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/plastic-recyclers-southeast-inc-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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