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Dreamsan Recycling Group
Company Overview
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DRG is a Georgia Limited Liability Company
located at 4785 Fulton Industrial
Boulevard .
The formation of DRG in the fall of 2002 marks the beginning of
Dreamsan’s foray into the Materials Processing and Material Marketing
segments of the recycling industry.
The initial facility currently occupies sixty-six thousand square
feet that offers ample space for Phase One of the state-of-the-art
commingled materials processing equipment capable of handling 100 TPD of
newsprint, plastic and metal rigid containers, mixed paper and glass. The first phase of the facility
officially began operation February 18,
2003 and was formally
commissioned for service June 26, 2003
.
DRG has now completed plans for Phases Two and Three of the
facility to be completed later this year. The expansion will significantly
increase the capacity of the facility, add additional automation and
processing efficiencies and introduce a new option for glass recycling for
the communities of metro Atlanta .
The facility has a 5,000 square foot
paper-processing floor dedicated to receiving and processing newsprint for
directed ship to the Southeast Paper mill located in
Dublin , Georgia
. The clean indoor paper processing
component has allowed DRG to maintain a material contamination level below
1 percent – the best category on the Southeast paper grading scale. DRG currently processes only the
newsprint collected by Dreamsan, Inc. – approximately 700 tons per
month. The facility layout
was designed to permit DRG to double the present volume without
sacrificing quality in processing.
The commingled materials sorting line was
designed to be implemented to two phases. Phase one was commissioned into
service February 18, 2003 .
The line includes a high capacity in-the-floor infeed hopper, 36
inch wide infeed and sorting belts, disc screen, plastic perforator,
overhead belt magnet and air sorter.
The system is rated at 5 tons per hour operating capacity. Material is sorted into 10
categories as it travels down the line: 1) OCC at the infeed, 2) Trash at
the disc screen, 3) HDPE natural, 4) HDPE mixed colors, 5) mixed paper, 6)
PETE mixed colors, 7) steel and tin, 8) aluminum, 9) clear glass, 10)
amber/green glass. Markets
for all materials have been established by DRG and secured by extended
term agreements.
With the implementation of Phase II, the
current sorting line will become a dedicated fiber line with as many as 5
sort categories for fiber.
Commingled rigid containers will be automatically transferred to a
new elevated sorting line equipped with 3 plastic perforators, magnets,
air sorter self unloading hoppers and a high capacity auto-tie baler. The expansion of the sorting
equipment will provide an increase in the capacity rating up to 8 – 10
tons per hour. The expanded
capacity will allow Dreamsan, Inc. to add new communities to it service
area and open the door for other collection companies to utilize the
material processing expertise of DRG. Phase II is scheduled to be on
line by the end of fourth quarter 2003.
Phase III of the DRG
business expansion plan is scheduled for completion before the end of
first quarter 2004. Phase III
will operate as GLASSTECH Manufacturing of Georgia, a post consumer glass
processing facility designed to manufacture abrasives, filtration
material, golf coarse sand and miscellaneous specialty products. Glass is traditionally the most
difficult component of the municipal waste stream to recycle. Yet, because of its density and
weight, glass has the greatest impact on the recycling goals of most
communities. Conservative
estimates for container glass available for collection in the
Atlanta area exceeds 550 tons per day and 172,000 tons
annually. This facility is
designed to provide a financially profitable solution to assist with this
disposal problem. The
GLASSTECH process will add considerable value to the glass in the waste
stream by processing it into a consumer finished product that meets the
needs of a committed, known market.
As a superior abrasive medium, the product has value that produces
significant returns for all parties in the product chain: manufacturer,
retailer and the end user – the necessary elements for a successful
product. This facility and
it’s market will provide curbside collection companies an additional home
for their glass, stimulate an increase in the number of programs that can
accept glass – making more post consumer glass available to container
manufacturers, save energy required to make virgin glass from sand and
make a significant contribution to a higher percentage of attainment of
the state and local recycling objectives. The implementation of Phases II
and III will add approximately 25 new jobs to the business area.
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