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Originally Posted by DWB
That's awesome. Congrats.
How much concern does a plastic company have these days for the chemicals used in their plastics? About two years ago I started noticing the recycle numbers on the plastics in the food / drink products I buy, and how some of them are harmful, contain BPA and so on. Curious what a plastic owners view is on the harmful stuff?
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Thanks,
Our core process uses predominately polyethelene. It's a material that you can remelt and turn it into something different. There are different grades and we do a lot of work in the food industry. So the documentation chain has to be clean and accurate. 100% of the time.
EPA has been here over the years and to date there has been no issues with what we use.
This year we started an injection molding division and that gets complicated. We are already using 30 different grades from poly - glass filled nylon. We have added breathing equipment and the operators wear protective garments over their clothes when filling hoppers. I'm no expert in injection grades and we clearly are going to learn a lot over the next year. One of the things we are doing is having a clean room built. If you want to make anything in medical that's the only way allowed.