Facility & fleet
Everything happens at 11966 Brookfield St, Livonia, MI 48150. Nothing is subcontracted except long-haul freight and final granulation — and we will tell you exactly which partner does which.
Bay by bay
Reuse is a process business. The order of these bays is the reason a fifteen-year-old cage can still be sold as food grade.
Every arriving cage is weighed, photographed from six angles, and logged against its last-contents paperwork. Bottles get a light test and a smell check; cages get a weld and foot inspection. Grading happens here and nowhere else.
Floor scale, lightbox, intake terminal
Rinse, caustic or steam, rinse — chemistry chosen by last contents, not by habit. Water is filtered and recirculated; the line holds each tote under pressure for thirty minutes before it can pass.
Caustic tank, 190°F steam, recirculation filtration
Tube straightening, weld repair, foot replacement, re-galvanising touch-up. A bent cage is usually a forty-minute problem, not a scrap ticket.
Hydraulic press, MIG welders, foot jig
New HDPE bottles fitted into refurbished cages. This is the bay that cut our scrap rate by a third when it opened in 2015.
Bottle inventory, cage spreader, torque tooling
Cutting, plumbing and fitting for upcycled builds: rain harvesters, aquaponics beds, livestock waterers, flood barriers, dock floats. Camlocks, bulkheads, screens and lids in stock.
Hot-air welder, hole saws, fittings wall
Stock is staged by grade, not by arrival date, so a truckload leaves consistent. Double-stacked only on tested cages, never on rebottled stock awaiting cure.
4 acres, two forklifts, one reach truck
The fleet
| Unit | Type | Capacity | Typical job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flatbed 48' | Tractor-trailer | 44 totes (275 gal, single stack) | Full truckload deliveries and buybacks |
| Flatbed 48' | Tractor-trailer | 40 totes (330 gal) | Taller stock, breweries, growers |
| Box truck 26' | Straight truck | 16 totes | Metro Detroit, dock-to-dock |
| Box truck 26' w/ lift gate | Straight truck | 14 totes | Sites without a forklift |
| Cargo van | Van | Accessories, valves, fittings | Same-day parts runs |
Core radius
300 mi
Own trucks, 2–4 business day pickup
Backhauled
68%
of pickups ride an existing lane
Full truckload
40–44
totes, depending on height and pallet
Visiting
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