Nicos adds densifier to help recycle packaging

The company recently added a used Herbold Condux densifier system, according to Kevin Cronin, Nicos' chief executive officer, in a telephone interview.

“We recycle packaging materials. When thinner gauges go through a traditional grinder, it produces a product that it difficult to handle. So, when we use a densifier it allows us a capability that we haven't had. I think it is a growing area,” Cronin said.

He said that it is a densifying system that includes grinders, a rotating disc densifier as well as an elutriation setup. It was put together in December and has passed through the testing phase in January.

“In a lot of ways it completes our ability to produce recycled product in just about every process,” he said.

Cronin said that Nicos is able to reprocess plastic waste through many different processes including grinding, pulverizing, blending, palletizing elutriation, fiber separation, fine removal and metal removal. Then the Nazareth-based company provides reprocessed pellets and regrind.

The company operates out of a 180,000-square-foot facility. It gained national attention when it recycled the nearly 1 million pounds of scrap produced from the Gates Project in New York's Central Park in 2005.

Nicos Polymers Group was set up in July 2007 when New York investment firm CrownBrook Capital LLC combined Nicos Polymers & Grinding Inc. with Depco Plastics Inc. of Freeport, N.Y.

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