AERT starts building industrial access road in Adair County

Plastic Recycling  |  2014-06-02 08:09:57   |   By

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.'s (OTCBB:AERT) groundbreaking ceremony for a new industrial access road in Adair County, Oklahoma near the Town of Watts held on Thursday

WATTS, OKLA (Scrap Monster): Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.’s (OTCBB:AERT) groundbreaking ceremony for a new industrial access road in Adair County, Oklahoma near the Town of Watts held on Thursday.

The new industrial access road will provide service to the new plastic reclamation plant built by AERT and opened in 2010, as well as residents, farms, and other businesses in the area. The Adair County Board of Commissioners is constructing the new road with funding provided by the U.S. Economic Development Agency, Eastern Oklahoma Development District, Oklahoma Department of Commerce, Oklahoma Department of Transportation and Cherokee Nation.

AERT, Inc. constructed its new plastic reclamation plant in 2009 and began operating it in 2010. The plant reclaims recycled polyethylene that is then used to manufacture composite building products at AERT's extrusion plants in Springdale, Arkansas. Going forward, in addition to composite raw materials, the plant will manufacture high grade resin that will be used as a virgin resin substitute by plastic molders making a variety of products. Recycling has been shown to conserve significant amounts of energy and reduce environmental impacts when compared to virgin material use.

'We at AERT are sincerely appreciative of the support from our friends in Oklahoma as we move forward to further expand our Green Age Plastic Recycling Facility here in Watts, (Green Country) Oklahoma,' stated Joe G. Brooks, AERT CEO.