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Evergreen, a supplier of food and non-food grade rPET, celebrated the completion of their building and production expansion in Clyde, Ohio on Friday, July 22, 2022 at a private event.
The expansion began in August of 2021 as a $22M project with 3 lines and evolved due to increased customer and consumer demand for recycled PET plastic. The 54,000 square foot addition includes four extrusion lines with the ability to expand to six, processing 11.8 billion bottles a year resulting in local capacity of 113 million pounds of food grade PET per year. Evergreen processes 217 million pounds across is four North American facilities.
This expansion was made possible in part by American Beverage Association and the Ohio Beverage Association, in partnership with Closed Loop Partners, who announced in 2021 that Evergreen, would be a recipient of a significant investment under the beverage industry’s Every Bottle Backinitiative.
The $5 million investment – half from the American Beverage Association in partnership with Closed Loop Partners and the other half from Closed Loop Partners’ Infrastructure Fund – has helped Evergreen evolve its business model, expanding its services to process recycled PET plastic into food-grade recycled rPET pellets used to manufacture new bottles, while creating a strong local market for recycled plastics.
This expansion has resulted in the addition of 20 manufacturing and management jobs in the Sandusky county region. Evergreen employs 350 manufacturing workers, managers, and organizational leaders across four locations in North America – Clyde, Ohio; Riverside, California; Albany, New York; Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
