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5/1/2016
UltrePET Announces Successful Start-up of Solid State Polymerization System>>
Bedford, Massachusetts, May 1, 2016 UltrePET, LLC today announced the successful start-up of its new, Starlinger ViscoTEC solid state polycondensation system.

8/15/2015
2015 Stormwater  Pollution Prevention  Plan Released >>

11/1/2013
UltrePET Announces Capacity Expansion >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, November 1, 2013 – UltrePET, LLC today announced the completion of a significant capacity expansion at its Albany polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics recycling facility.

04/14/2011
wTe Corporation Announces Installation of ZebraSort™ metal sorter >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, April 14, 2011 - wTe Corporation announced the installation of its first commercial scale Spectramet® proprietary ZebraSort™ metal alloy sorter.

9/14/2010
UltrePET Receives Letter of Non-Objection from Health Canada >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, September 14, 2010 – UltrePET, LLC today announced that it has received a letter of non-objection from the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada.

12/15/2009
wTe Corporation Announces Win of $11.5 Million Project through NIST TIP Program >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, December 15, 2009 – The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it has selected a project by a joint venture led by wTe Corporation.

12/22/2008
wTe Recycling, Inc. Announces Modernization of its Shredder >>
Greenfield, Massachusetts,  December 22, 2008 – wTe Recycling, Inc. announced that it has implemented a major shredder repair and refurbishing project.

12/19/2008
UltrePET Announces Successful Installation and Start-up of a  New Plastics  Extruder >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, December 19, 2008 – UltrePET, LLC announced completion of a major equipment installation at its Albany, NY facility.

8/1/2008
wTe Recycling, Inc. Announces DXRT Metal Sorting System Success >>
Greenfield, Massachusetts, August 1, 2008 – wTe Recycling, Inc. announced the successful commercialization of the prototype metal sorter developed by Spectramet, a partnership between wTe Corporation and National Recovery Technologies, Inc. 

1/3/2006
UltrePET Announces Acquisition of Novapet, Inc. >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, January 3, 2006 – UltrePET, LLC today announced the Closing of the acquisition of Novapet, Inc, a Canadian plastics recycling company located in Nova Scotia and serving the provinces of Atlantic Canada.

4/2005
The High-Speed Sorting and Identification of Nonferrous Scrap >>
Article by David Spencer published in the JOM.

3/7/2005
UltrePET Announces New FDA Licensing Agreement with Wellman, Inc. >>
Bedford, Massachusetts, March 7, 2005 – UltrePET, LLC announced a new, comprehensive licensing agreement with Wellman, Inc. to obtain certain licensing rights with respect to Wellman’s past, present and future “FDA Letter of Non-Objection (LNO)” PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) recycling technologies.