Comments on: Bankrupt Houston Recycler http://swamplot.com/bankrupt-houston-recycler/2009-04-30/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:41:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: movocelot http://swamplot.com/bankrupt-houston-recycler/2009-04-30/#comment-26729 movocelot Fri, 01 May 2009 04:43:00 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=8664#comment-26729 Sure, fiber for their own newsprint was their biggest paper need (recently tanked) and China’s economic changes on top of that… I wonder if some sort of plastic can be added to the paper stream to make eternally-recycled paper continually-strong? since new wood fiber is necessary to keep paper & cardboard structural... Sure, fiber for their own newsprint was their biggest paper need (recently tanked) and China’s economic changes on top of that…

I wonder if some sort of plastic can be added to the paper stream to make eternally-recycled paper continually-strong? since new wood fiber is necessary to keep paper & cardboard structural…

]]> By: kjb434 http://swamplot.com/bankrupt-houston-recycler/2009-04-30/#comment-26649 kjb434 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:50:15 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=8664#comment-26649 movocelot, Maybe a year or two ago, but if raw recycled paper demand is down their profit margin could have taken a big hit. China's manufacturing has slowed so paper based packaging material most likely took a hit. Recycle paper is a very profitable business in general because the process to recycle it isn't to difficult and it is scalable to the volume of input. The raw product can easily be thrown in with new raw materials to make paper or sold off to other manufacturers of paper products. It's one of the reasons paper consumer goods had not real beef with incorporating recycled paper for packaging. The quality of recycled paper goods is also to the point where it rivals paper products that are not made with recycled material. movocelot,
Maybe a year or two ago, but if raw recycled paper demand is down their profit margin could have taken a big hit. China’s manufacturing has slowed so paper based packaging material most likely took a hit.

Recycle paper is a very profitable business in general because the process to recycle it isn’t to difficult and it is scalable to the volume of input. The raw product can easily be thrown in with new raw materials to make paper or sold off to other manufacturers of paper products. It’s one of the reasons paper consumer goods had not real beef with incorporating recycled paper for packaging. The quality of recycled paper goods is also to the point where it rivals paper products that are not made with recycled material.

]]> By: movocelot http://swamplot.com/bankrupt-houston-recycler/2009-04-30/#comment-26646 movocelot Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:23:20 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=8664#comment-26646 I remember a rep from Donohue (which Abitibi took over) telling me that the school paper recycling program was, several years ago, so profitable for them that what couldn't be used for newsprint was sold to China - raw - for corregated. I sincerely hope Abitibi can maintain it's paper recycling. I remember a rep from Donohue (which Abitibi took over) telling me that the school paper recycling program was, several years ago, so profitable for them that what couldn’t be used for newsprint was sold to China - raw - for corregated.
I sincerely hope Abitibi can maintain it’s paper recycling.

]]> By: Jimbo http://swamplot.com/bankrupt-houston-recycler/2009-04-30/#comment-26640 Jimbo Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:41:10 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=8664#comment-26640 From looking at this after recycling last came upo in a post it seems that the company just grew and diversified too much. They went from being a paper producer to a major recycling operator in a very short space of time. I would imagine we may see the recycling operation spun off from the paper mills as a result of restructuring. From looking at this after recycling last came upo in a post it seems that the company just grew and diversified too much. They went from being a paper producer to a major recycling operator in a very short space of time. I would imagine we may see the recycling operation spun off from the paper mills as a result of restructuring.

]]> By: kjb434 http://swamplot.com/bankrupt-houston-recycler/2009-04-30/#comment-26627 kjb434 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:19 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=8664#comment-26627 Well, this is a restructuring which means we shouldn't see much change in their current operations. Well, this is a restructuring which means we shouldn’t see much change in their current operations.

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