Film Recycling Works International

What Film Recycling Works International does

Film Recycling Works International S.A.L. (FRWI) is a Lebanese plastic recycling company founded in 2001 and headquartered in Sariine-Bekaa, Lebanon. It operates the only facility in the country capable of recycling post-consumer LDPE plastic bags collected from Beirut and its suburbs. The company runs a single production line that transforms sourced post-consumer bags through manual color sorting, shredding, dry and wet cleaning, drying, and pelletizing via Tecnova extruders equipped with REPS wire mesh 110 filtration to produce film-grade LDPE granules. Finished output is sold in multiple color grades — Natural/honey (~60%), Black (~30%), and other colors (~10%) — with a ~50% yield rate from raw waste.

The company employs over 50 workers for sorting and line operations and operates at a monthly production capacity of approximately 200 metric tons of granules, diverting roughly 4,800 metric tons of plastic bag waste per year from landfills and the environment. Its production line incorporates solar water heating and a three-times water reuse system to reduce reliance on Lebanon's oil-based electricity grid. These environmental investments serve both cost and sustainability positioning.

FRWI runs a direct B2B sales model with no intermediaries. Approximately 70% of production is exported — primarily to India and West African countries (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali) — where granules are converted into Bache noire, the thick agricultural plastic sheets used to dry cacao and other crops. The remaining ~30% is sold domestically to Lebanese manufacturers of black irrigation pipes and waste bin plastic bags. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, and there is no evidence of digital sales channels, e-commerce, or formal partnership agreements in the source data.

Name

Film Recycling Works International

Legal name

Film Recycling Works International S.A.L.

Website

https://frwint.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Film Recycling Works International is a Lebanese LDPE plastic recycler founded in 2001 that converts post-consumer plastic bags from Beirut into film-grade granules, exporting ~70% of output to India and West Africa and selling the rest domestically to pipe and bag manufacturers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recycled LDPE Plastic Granules

NAICS

All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (326199), Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821), Unsupported Plastics Film & Sheet (3081)

akta.pro primary industry

Film & Flexible Plastics Recycling (LDPE/LLDPE, Multilayer) (EUAIAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Post-Consumer Plastic Collection & Sorting (MRF/PRF, Bale Supply) (EUAIAKAA), Recycled-Content Plastic Packaging (rPET, rHDPE, rPP) (IMALAMAC)

Keywords

• Plastic recycling
• LDPE granules
• Film-grade pellets
• Post-consumer recycling
• Polyethylene reprocessing

Headquarters

HQ city

El Mîna

HQ country

Lebanon

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. LDPE Granule Sales: Sale of recycled film-grade LDPE plastic granules produced from post-consumer plastic bags. Production split: approximately 60% Natural/honey color, 30% Black, 10% other colors. Revenue is generated through direct B2B sales with 70% exported to international markets (India, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali) and 30% sold locally to Lebanese manufacturers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Film Recycling Works International S.A.L. (FRWI) recycles post-consumer LDPE plastic bags collected from Beirut and its suburbs into film-grade LDPE plastic granules. The granules are sold in multiple color grades (Natural/honey ~60%, Black ~30%, other colors including Gray and Blue ~10%) to industrial customers, principally Lebanese irrigation-pipe and waste-bin bag factories locally and agricultural-film (Bache noire) manufacturers in India and African countries via export.

Product overview

Film Recycling Works International (FRWI) is a single-product recycling company offering LDPE Plastic Granules (film-grade). The company operates a complete recycling production line that transforms post-consumer LDPE plastic bags collected from waste management plants in Beirut, Lebanon, into film-grade granules. The production process involves shredding, dry and wet cleaning, drying, and pelletizing using Tecnova extruders with REPS filter. The granules are sold both domestically (30%) to factories manufacturing black irrigation pipes and plastic bags for waste bins, and exported internationally (70%) to India and African countries for use in agricultural applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• LDPE Plastic Granules (film-grade) Film-grade LDPE plastic granules made from recycled post-consumer LDPE plastic bags via shredding, dry and wet cleaning, drying, and pelletizing using Tecnova extruders and REPS wire-mesh 110 filters. Available in Natural/honey (60% of output), Black (30%), Gray, Blue, and other color grades. Sold directly B2B to industrial manufacturers of irrigation pipes, waste-bin plastic bags (Lebanon), and Bache noire agricultural film (India and African countries).

Quantifiable outcome

• Processes 200 Metric Tons of recycled LDPE granules per month
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Custom Polymers Inc. Specialty post-industrial and post-consumer plastics recycler producing custom-blended recycled resins sold to film and packaging converters. Directly comparable as a B2B recycler selling grade-specific recycled pellets into similar end markets.
• Clean Tech Recycling: Plastics recycling company processing post-consumer and post-industrial plastics into reprocessed resin for film, extrusion, and molding applications. Directly comparable mid-sized recycler with similar mechanical reprocessing line.
• Envision Plastics (recycling operations): Recycles post-consumer plastics into food-grade and non-food-grade recycled resin pellets for downstream film and packaging manufacturers. Closely comparable technology stack and customer profile to FRWI's LDPE film-grade pellet business.
• CarbonLite Recycling: Plastics recycler that converts post-consumer PET and other plastic bottles into food-grade and non-food-grade recycled resin pellets. Comparable vertically-integrated mechanical recycling operation serving packaging and film converters, though primarily PET-focused.
• MBA Polymers: US-headquartered advanced plastics recycler producing recycled resin pellets (including LDPE/PP grades) from post-consumer and post-industrial streams for manufacturing customers. Comparable to FRWI in feedstock type, recycling process (mechanical recycling into pellets), and B2B granule sales model.

Broad incumbents

• Biffa (Polymers division): UK-headquartered waste management company with a polymers recycling business producing recycled LDPE/PP pellets from post-consumer film and rigid plastics for converters. Comparable output (recycled plastic granules) and target end markets.
• Veolia (Recycling & Recovery division): Global environmental services and recycling giant operating MRFs and plastic recycling plants that produce recycled polymers, including LDPE film grades. Comparable at the technology and end-product level, though Veolia operates at vastly larger scale and across many geographies.
• Suez (Recycling & Recovery): Major international waste management and recycling group with significant plastic-to-plastic recycling operations producing recycled polymers for industrial buyers. Overlaps with FRWI in recycled plastic resin output but is a far broader environmental services incumbent.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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