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Cereplast to expand Bio-Plastic production with new facility at Indiana

Cereplast to expand Bio-Plastic production with new facility at Indiana

Write: Erith [2011-05-20]
Cereplast, Inc.'s new half a billion pounds a year facility is to be located at Indiana, when the site is fully developed by early 2010. Operations will start at the site in January of 2008. Within weeks, a logistics processing center will begin operations, allowing the company to better serve clients in the Midwest and the East Coast. Cereplast will begin hiring managers, supervisors, extrusion operators, warehouse specialists and maintenance technicians in early 2008. When the site reaches full capacity in early 2010, it will employ up to 200 full-time staff and be the world's largest bio-plastic resin production facility.

Production will start in an existing industrial building that is situated in Seymour, Ind. on more than 12 acres. Cereplast is planning to have additional buildings completed by early 2009. Rail service will help accommodate the enormous quantities of raw materials and finished goods that will move through the complex.