HymoPack is a leading North American manufacturer of many types of plastic shopping bags including t-shirt bags (known for the shape of the bag). The company was able to cut cost by recycling in house post industrial plastic waste generated from the manufacturing process with EREMA plastic recycling machinery.

To make their products, HymoPack extrudes very thin plastic sheets which are trimmed and formed into various bag geometries. This process generates a considerable amount of internal waste scrap.

HymoPack realized about 15 years ago that the ability to recover this scrap and re-use it (post-industrial plastic recycling) would improve their competitive position by lowering overall product costs as well as improve their sustainability footprint. HymoPack foresaw the opportunity to produce value from their post-industrial plastic scrap and evaluated sending their scrap out to others for re-processing or adopting in-house plastic recycling technology. They opted for in house recycling and trusted that EREMA was the right partner for the provision of recycling machinery.

HymoPack’s in-house post-industrial plastic recycling program keeps their costs low and enables them to produce products such as can-liners with a very high percentage of recycled input materials.