Recycler CTC Plastics LLC (Composite Technologies Co. LLC) of Dayton, Ohio, is enjoying the results of its decision to take a few steps back to move forward. Officials there have pushed onward with an aggressive efficiency plan that resulted in a reduction of the workforce by nearly half and ongoing automation of plant processes. CTC is in the business of taking scrap — some 70 million pounds of it projected for all of 2015 — and transforming it into usable pellets and then into products such as pallets for materials handling.
