New York-based PlastiCycle, a company providing plastic recycling services to manufacturers, is expanding into Simpson County.
The company, which already has a presence in Nashville, has purchased a 54,000-square-foot manufacturing building on Washington Way in Franklin, where PlastiCycle President Tony Corso said “25 to 30” workers will soon begin recycling plastic from industrial clients.
“We work with manufacturers and recycle the scrap from their production process,” Corso commented. “We take the scrap and re-process it into pellets or nuggets that we then resell for use in other applications.”
PlastiCycle has been providing plastic recycling services since 1998, and Corso said demand for the service has grown to the point that a plant is needed to complement the Nashville facility. According to him, the PlastiCycle plant on Centennial Boulevard in Nashville processes about 50 million pounds of plastic per year. He hopes the Franklin plant will equal that production.
“This will allow us to double our capacity,” Corso said. “We’re investing around $6 million in the plant, and we already have the machinery and equipment ordered.”
“This will allow us to double our capacity,” Corso continued. “We’re investing around $6 million in the plant, and we already have the machinery and equipment ordered. Our company will be able to better service hundreds of industries in the mid-South with our new Franklin location.”
