What Advanced Plastic Recycling does

Advanced Plastic Recycling is a privately held, for-profit plastics processing company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Minster, Ohio, United States. The company provides mechanical recycling preprocessing services — specifically densifying, grinding, and pelletizing — that convert post-industrial or post-consumer plastic scrap into densified, ground, or pelletized form suitable for downstream reuse by plastics manufacturers and converters. The firm operates as a small-scale industrial processor with 11-50 employees, serving what is presumed to be a regional customer base of plastic scrap generators and buyers of recycled feedstock, although no customer disclosures are available.

The underlying technology is conventional mechanical recycling equipment: densifiers reduce the volume of loose scrap (typically films, foams, or light-weight plastics) for transport and handling; grinders reduce plastic parts, purgings, or scrap to controlled particle sizes; and pelletizing extrudes cleaned, ground plastic into uniform pellets for downstream compounding or remanufacturing. The company has not disclosed any proprietary process technology, certifications, patents, or specialized material capabilities in the available data, suggesting it operates as a toll/commercial processor of standard thermoplastics rather than a technology-driven specialty recycler.

Advanced Plastic Recycling generates revenue through fee-for-service processing (per-pound or per-hour densifying, grinding, and pelletizing) and/or the sale of processed recycled resin, consistent with the standard business model of regional plastics recyclers. No pricing model, contract structure, customer count, geographic footprint, or revenue figures are disclosed; the company's website is currently non-functional (displaying only a verification/loading screen), so all commercial details beyond service line and location constitute a data gap.

Name

Advanced Plastic Recycling

Website

https://advancedplasticrecycling.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Advanced Plastic Recycling is a privately held plastics processor founded in 1999 in Minster, Ohio, providing densifying, grinding, and pelletizing services to convert plastic scrap into reusable feedstock for regional manufacturers and converters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plastic Recycling

NAICS

Resin, Synthetic Rubber, and Artificial and Synthetic Fibers and Filaments Manufacturing (3252)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Mechanical Plastics Recycling (Wash/Grind/Flake/Pellet) (IMANAMAC)

Keywords

• Plastic recycling services
• Plastic densifying
• Plastic grinding
• Plastic pelletizing
• Plastic reprocessing

Headquarters

HQ city

Minster

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

Advanced Plastic Recycling provides plastic densifying, grinding, and pelletizing services. The company processes plastic materials into reusable forms such as densified bales, ground flake, and finished pellets, serving industrial and commercial clients that generate plastic scrap or require recycled plastic feedstock.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plastic Densifying Service Densifying service that compresses plastic scrap or waste into more compact, transportable forms for B2B customers that need to reduce volume and prepare material for downstream recycling or processing.
• Plastic Grinding Service Grinding service that sizes-reduces plastic materials into smaller flake or chip form for industrial and commercial customers that need plastic feedstock prepared for compounding or pelletizing.
• Plastic Pelletizing Service Pelletizing service that converts processed plastic into uniform pellets, producing a finished recycled plastic raw material sold to manufacturers and other industrial buyers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Others

• Vecoplan: Manufacturer of industrial shredders and grinders for plastics, film, and bulky scrap. Comparable to the size-reduction portion of APR's service offering; supplies equipment into mechanical recycling facilities.
• Cumberland (ACS Group): Manufacturer of granulators, shredders, and size-reduction equipment used in plastics recycling. Comparable grind/granulation capability to the densifying and grinding steps APR performs, but supplies equipment rather than recycling services.
• Erema: Austrian manufacturer of plastics recycling extrusion and pelletizing systems (e.g., INTAREMA). Comparable technology stack — densifying, grinding, and pelletizing — but sells equipment rather than toll recycling services.

Direct peers

• KW Plastics: One of the largest U.S. mechanical recyclers of HDPE and polypropylene, operating wash, grind, and pelletizing lines at industrial scale. Directly comparable as a mechanical plastics recycler producing PCR pellets from post-consumer and post-industrial scrap.
• MBA Polymers: Global mechanical recycler of post-consumer plastics (ABS, PC, PP, HIPS) into PCR pellets using multi-step separation, grind, and compounding. Closely comparable business model focused on producing recycled resin pellets from mixed scrap streams.
• Avangard Innovative: U.S. and Latin America operator of post-consumer plastics collection, sortation, and pelletizing. Comparable as a vertically integrated mechanical recycler that converts scrap into specification PCR pellet products.
• Greenstar Recycling (Circular Polymers): U.S. mechanical recycler producing high-purity PCR pellets from mixed post-consumer film and rigid plastics. Directly comparable as a densify/grind/pelletize operator targeting brand-owner PCR demand.
• Custom Polymers (Petoskey Plastics): Mid-size U.S. mechanical plastics recycler and compounder producing PCR resins for film, molding, and extrusion. Comparable scale and similar toll/custom pelletizing service orientation.

Broad incumbents

• Plastipak Packaging: Vertically integrated rigid plastics packaging manufacturer that also operates large-scale PCR resin and bottle-to-bottle recycling. Comparable as a major mechanical recycler with integrated pelletizing capability, but operates at substantially larger scale.
• Berry Global (Envision Plastics): Global packaging giant whose Envision Plastics unit operates HDPE PCR pelletizing lines. Comparable mechanical recycling capability as part of a much broader plastics manufacturing portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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