AG film recycling
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Ag plastics is big business in AP
BY PAUL CATALA
Highlands Today
Published: October 4, 2014
AVON PARK – They started out with an empty, closed, run-down citrus packing warehouse but have since gotten it up and running, filled with the steady sounds and sights of economic development.
Outside of the Florida Agricultural Plastics Recyclers (FLAG) plant, 90 W. Orange St., what was in August just one hill of used agricultural plastics has since turned into a mountain range of discarded and used plastic film from field crop covering, silage bags, bale wrap, greenhouse, hay and row covers and mulch film.
Florida recycler starts reprocessing agricultural film
By Jim Johnson
Senior Staff Reporter
Published: October 2, 2014 3:12 pm E
AVON PARK –
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers LLC sees a bright future where others tread lightly — used agricultural film.
The Avon Park, Fla.-based company has now started operations, collecting, shredding and washing used LDPE film from around the state.
With one wash line now operational, the company expects to add three more in the future, according to President Joe Miceli.
Miceli said the company, which provides the equipment and trucks needed to load and remove used film from farms, has orders for all of the recycled product it can produce for the next two years.
From packing house to recycling plant
BY PAUL CATALA
Highlands Today
Published: May 8, 2014
AVON PARK – Since it began as a packing warehouse in 1961 and through the early-1980s, thousands of oranges a day would roll on belts to be sorted, packed and shipped for the Ben Hill Griffin Inc. citrus company.
But after having different owners in the 1990s, the 65,000-square-feet industrial warehouse and plant has been empty.
That will all change within two months when Boca Raton-based Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers opens an agriculture-plastics recycling plant in the former citrus packing facility.
Florida ag-plastics firm expands
By Editorial Staff, Plastics Recycling Update
A plastics recycling firm in Central Florida says investments are in place to build two wash lines and sell almost six months-worth of agricultural plastics.
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers (FLAG) announced the news Wednesday, noting that more than 30 million pounds of LDPE ag-plastic is ready to leave the company's 65,000-square-foot Avon Park processing facility. An additional 30 to 40 million pounds of material "abandoned by the recycling community" will be aggregated and sold by year's end, the company says.
At present, the company "has agreements to sell over 40 million pounds" of the material to buyers around the world as well as "national retailers."
If all goes as planned, FLAG will add two more wash lines by the end of 2014 to "fully utilize" the company's facility and accommodate growth in the supply of recycled LDPE film.
Annual global production of virgin LDPE approaches 50 billion pounds, and the company would like to work with farmers throughout the Southeast to ensure that film can be recycled and put back to work.
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers forms
Company establishes LDPE agricultural film recycling facility in Florida.
Recycling Today Staff June 20, 2014
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers LLC (FLAG), based in Avon Park, Florida, has announced the completion of a private placement with an international investor group that it says will allow the company to begin implementing the first phase of its low-density polyethylene (LDPE) agricultural film recycling program. The phase will include the completion of two wash lines and commencing contracted sales of shredded and washed LDPE....................
AP recycling plant to open by end of July
BY PAUL CATALA
Highlands Today
Published: July 8, 2014
AVON PARK — Once the word got out that as many as 100 new jobs in one Avon Park location would be available, Joe Miceli and Rebel Miller expected a few knocks on their office door.
But since early May, there has been an almost metronomic pace of taps at the entrance to Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers (FLAG) Plastics, a new, low-density polyethylene agricultural film recycling specialist, said Miceli, company president. Additionally, the company plans to have the warehouse factory at 90 W. Orange St. fully operational by the end of July.
Housed in a former citrus packing warehouse built....................
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers, LLC establishes LDPE Ag-Film recycling facility in Florida.
Introduces "Profitable Environmental Consciousness"; Recycling 40 million lbs. in first year
AVON PARK, Fla., May 21, 2014
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers, LLC ("FLAG"), announced completion of its Private Placement with an international investor group to implement phase I of its LDPE Ag-Film recycling program that includes two wash lines and fulfilling contracted sales of shredded, washed LDPE to worldwide buyers within 75 days...................
Agricultural LDPE Film Recycling Firm Secures Funding in Florida
22 May 2014
By Ben Messenger
Managing Editor
Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers, an LDPE film recycling specialist based in Avon Park near Tampa, Florida, has completed its Private Placement with an international investor group to implement phase I of its LDPE Ag-Film recycling program.
According to the company, mulch and silage film, known as Ag-Film, is 100% LDPE and used seasonally to cover crops as protection from adverse climate and .................................
Flagging down new business opportunities from recycled film
By Jim Johnson
Senior Staff Reporter
A new agricultural plastics recycling company is launching in Avon Park, Fla., with plans to capture used film that typically heads to a landfill or is burned.
As chief financial officer of Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers LLC, Younis Zubchevich said he can’t think of a project he’s been involved with over the years that has him more enthusiastic.
FLAG, Zubchevich said, is building on his financial background as well as President Joseph Miceli’s operational background in buying and selling recycled plastics.....................................
FLAG to begin its first LDPE agricultural film recycling
By Gaurang Damor
Jun 21, 2014
Post receiving financial assistance from a leading international investor group, Florida Agricultural Plastic Recyclers LLC (FLAG) has announced that it will commence implementing the first phase of its low-density polyethylene (LDPE) agricultural film recycling programme.
The phase will include the completion of two wash lines and commencing contracted sales of shredded and washed LDPE.
Joseph Miceli, President of FLAG said, “This capital gives FLAG the opportunity to take advantage of a market abandoned by the recycling community. With favorable market conditions and FLAG’s position as the sole agricultural film recycler in Florida, this year, the company will be one of the largest ongoing suppliers of clean recycled LDPE film in the county, if not the world.”.........................