Color Separation
Rejection Does Not Mean Sell Cheap Or Export
Problem / Opportunity: A company that sells TPO needed a solution to fix 80,000 lbs. of mixed-color material that was rejected by their customer due to the presence of both nylon and TPU (urethane) contamination. Facing a significant loss in material value, the company was looking for options other than trashing the material or selling…
Contaminated PET Pellets; PVC Comingled
Problem / Opportunity: A multinational custom compounder had four truck loads of black PVC pellets that had been contaminated with white PET pellets (pepper and salt). Had it all been PVC, they would color over the white with the black. But in this case, the white was PET. Solution: A sister plant referred the Plant…