New owner converting PE recycler.

From: Plastics News | Date: January 31, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The new owners of Resource Plastics Inc., once a major post-consumer polyethylene recycler, are converting the plant to mold composite building components.

Daedalus Project Inc. is adding equipment to the Brantford, Ontario, operation -- now called Daedalus Composites Inc. --to make panels for low-cost housing.

The panels will be for basic shelters for use in developing nations, said Daedalus Project marketing manager Anton Bricker. He expects the facility to begin making panels for captive use by midyear, he said in a telephone interview from the parent firm's ...

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