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Collaborators in this ground breaking project are -
The population of Recycling Consumers
Global PET
Direct Pack Inc
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PRCC
GLOBAL PET
Nadim Bahou, Owner and President
Bahou founded Global PET in 1997. The core operation of the business at its inception was to ground post-industrial scrap bottles into flake to sell to sheet extruders. Bahou started with one ranulator, but quickly added a second, third and fourth machine. He then went on to add a bale breaker and color sorting equipment to separate green from clear bottles. After just 10 years of business, Global PET was grinding PET bottles at up to 3500 lb/hr or 25 million lb/yr.
As this family owned company continued to grow, Bahou was sure to succeed by remaining at the front line in bringing in new technology. Global PET received a ‘Challenge Grant’ from the state of CA in 2004 for $900,000 to put towards a washing system (wash line). Global PET would be the first to process post consumer flake as well as post-industrial scrap. By 2006 all systems were go.
Global PET has recently added sheet line equipment as well as thermoforming lines to its facility in Perris, CA. This truly allows the company to be a one-stop shop provider! From granulating, washing, extruding and thermoforming. A perfect fit for the Bottle Box manufacturing. Global PET partnered with Direct Pack, Inc. in 2009 to bring the Bottle Box food packages to market.
Bahou has showed the State of California time an again that Global PET is worthy of support in its efforts to improve the environment. Global PET was recently granted a nearly $7 million loan to bring the company to the next level of recycling by using only 100% post consumer recycled PET bottles. Bahou also signed a 10-year long-term agreement with the Plastic Recycling Corporation of California (PRCC) for an annual supply of 60 million pounds of post consumer PET bottles. The agreement attained with PRCC and Global PET is one that can only be garnered through a strong reputation and proven track record.
DIRECT PACK INC.
Craig Snedden, President, Direct Pack Inc.
From 1992 through 1999, Craig worked as the Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Winkler Forming, Inc. (WFI). WFI was known as the largest West Coast Extruder and Thermoformer of PET plastics. Snedden then advanced to the role of President, Winkler Forming, Inc from 2000 – 2002. Under Craig’s directive, the company doubled it’s sales, added a second manufacturing facility and converted over 200,000 lbs of finished product per day of PET thermoformed food containers.
Commencing in 2003 until 2005, Craig worked with PMC Global (parent company to WFI and DPI) traveling the world to identify the most efficient and advanced platforms for tool making, sheet extrusion and thermoforming for food packaging. Hundreds of thousands of miles, and three years yielded the current platform for DPIs efficient and economical manufacturing operations.
Starting in 2006 to present day, Snedden led a partnership formation between DPI and Global PET. This partnership represents the very first fully integrated sorting, grinding washing, extruding and thermoforming operation in the United States for 100% Post Consumer PET plastic. In addition, DPI maintains a loyal following of customers that require prime custom products.
Laura Murphy, Vice President Sales and Marketing
With the creation of Bottle Box in 2009, Murphy has fulfilled a lifelong entrepreneurial dream of designing a new brand and creating a range of food packages from scratch that make environmental sense without compromise. As Vice President Sales and Marketing for Direct Pack, Inc, Murphy will work alongside Craig Snedden, President Direct Pack, Inc. Together they can effectively market and sell the innovative, unique and eco-friendly Bottle Box product line. Murphy and Snedden have nearly two decades of working in the same circles. They decided to finally work together and bring their expertise under one roof in 2009 with the formation of Bottle Box.
Murphy has left her thumbprint on some of the most successful food packages on the market today. Her background spans across two decades in the food packaging industry and six years in the consumer products industry at the executive level. Murphy was always a part of a dedicated management team where there was a shared emphasis on innovation, quality and service. A constant thread in Murphy’s career has been to have a strong focus on customization and design – a perfect fit for the Bottle Box.
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