Gracious Living Corporation Stewardship Ontario’s Sustainability Summit June 21, 2012 Presented By - Amit Golan Vice President, Manufacturing Technologies
Gracious Living Corporation – Woodbridge Facility
About Gracious Living • • • • • • • • • Established 1980 Leading Canadian Manufacturer of Injection Molded Products and Extruded Products. Injection Molding – 76 Injection Molding Machines ranging 40-3000 Ton. Injection Molded Products - Resin Furniture, Storage Solutions, Housewares, Pet Products, Lighting Solutions, Electronic goods, Recreational Products, Custom Molding and a lot more. Extrusion – 50 Extrusion lines Extrusion Products - Decking, Railing, Window Blinds, Outdoor Products, OEM.
Our Product Depth
Keys to Plastics Industry and why Recycle Plastics 1. Resin is typically two-thirds the cost of plastic products (depending on the product this may range anywhere from 50-75%) 2. In general, most of GLC’s injection molded products are made from Polypropylene (PP). PP is a derivative of either crude oil or natural gas. Crude Oil/Natural gas Propylene Monomer Polypropylene 3.
Historical and Forecasted Polypropylene (PP) Pricing 150 Homopolymer Copolymer Propylene 130 cpp Delivered 110 90 70 50 30 10 nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa nJa 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 Source: CMAI
Polypropylene Homopolymer Pricing Source: The Plastics Exchange
Gracious Living’s Sustainability Activities and Recycling 1. Recycle & re-uses all of all internal scrap products 2. Extensive usage of post industrial material & post consumer material. 3. Largest converter of post consumer polypropylene into Housewares products in Canada. 4. Developed Eco line of products with significant % of post consumer & post industrial materials 5. Developed blue bins made of 70% post consumer - originated in Ontario 6.
Gracious Living Sustainability Activities and Energy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Completed Lighting Retrofit: • Retrofitted entire facility and warehouses from metal halides to T8 fluorescent • Removed 594 old fixtures (455 W) and installed 452 new T8 fixtures (6 packs and 4 packs). • Estimated annual savings - 900,000 Watts In process of installing 500 KWH rooftop solar generation system. Participated in Demand Response - Phase 1 Currently participating DR3. Committed to curtail 500 KWH.
Benefits of Using Recycled Material 1. Develop and expand the usage of materials that are relatively stable in price and quality 2. Sustainability – refrain from further usage of natural resources (natural gas or crude oil) and divert plastics from the landfills. 3. Develop new lines of products that are tailor-made to the specific properties of the postconsumer resin we intend to use 4.
Challenges of Using Recycled Material and Next Steps 1. Our goal is to increase the usage of recycled materials in consumer products up to 50 million pounds per year 2. Expand into additional lines of product. 3. Increase the content level of post-consumer materials in current products – shelving, totes, baskets etc. 4. Continue to partner with various organizations for future product developments. 5.
How Can We Improve? 1. Educate the public to utilize where possible products that are not clear or translucent. 2. Give preference to Made in Canada products and those manufactured using Canadian plastic waste. 3. In public tenders for plastic goods require minimum levels of Canadian PCR (preferably Ontario). 4. Encourage producers to produce products that are made from single types of resin. As an example, do not mix in one product PE and PP.
Gracious Living Solutions for environmentally-friendly living. Enzo Macri President Gracious Living Corporation 905-264-5660 ext.104 emacri@graciousliving.com Amit H. Golan Vice President, Manufacturing Technologies Gracious Living Corporation 905-264-5660 ext.176 agolan@graciousliving.com Vito Galloro Executive Vice President Gracious Living Corporation 905-264-5660 ext.103 vgalloro@graciousliving.com Derek Morrell Vice President, Sales Gracious Living Corporation 905-264-5660 ext.
