Living Spaces Furniture is the largest chain of furniture stores located in the American Southwest. After two decades of operation, Living Space stores have spread across many continents in the West, with dozens of stores and 2 distributor centers (DC) in Texas. Living Space has installed GREENMAX Styrofoam recycling systems in 6 DCs. INTCO Recycling has helped Living Space recycle hundreds of thousands of pounds of Styrofoam waste.

Before reaching out to INTCO Recycling, a large amount of waste Styrofoam from Living Space was provided to local recyclers. But the scrap market is always changing, so if Living Space wants to get rid of it, they had to pay recyclers. Fortunately, GREENMAX Styrofoam densifiers provided by INTCO helped them solve these problems. GREENMAX Styrofoam densifier makes the waste Styrofoam be compressed into blocks and sold back to INTCO. As a result, Living Space has been able to get rid of the waste Styrofoam problem and profit from it.

The foam packaging materials are commonly called expanded polystyrene (EPS) or Styrofoam. It is an ideal packaging material. According to different requirements, it can be processed into a variety of shapes and different thicknesses through the molding process. And since it is fully expanded, with almost 98% air, it has a good characteristic of shock resistance.

(Silicon Valley, USA)

This also leads to its disadvantage. A small quantity of expanded polystyrene occupies a lot of space. What’s worse, this material is non-degradable, which means it is a bad way to throw them away casually or make them landfilled. For such a large furniture company with many chain stores, it will cost a lot either to store the waste foam packaging or transport them to be disposed of.

Just turn to GREENMAX (which belongs to INTCO Recycling) for help. Just like Living Spaces did. They bought one set of GREENMAX Mars C300 large melting machine system as their first attempt at disposing of waste packaging by themselves. Then in the fourth quarter of 2016, it ordered another two sets of Styrofoam densifier M-C300 for their other locations, one of which was just transported to the Silicon Valley for use.

(Los Angeles, USA)

The best required GREENMAX Mars Series Melter can not only help you solve the problem of lacking storage space but can make you get out of the adversity of paying money to dispose of the foam packaging.

(Phoenix, USA)

The third DC in Texas officially open. Like the previous DCs, recycling all waste and reducing carbon emissions as much as possible is the eternal pursuit of Living Space. Before the completion of the third DC in Texas, based on past friendly cooperation, Living Spaces decided to establish the same recycling system as the previous warehouses in this new DC, including the GREENMAX SILO recycling system. According to the needs of Living Space, INTCO provides a special customized SILO, which can carry more than 1000lbs of Styrofoam waste, thus saving a lot of labor and warehouse space.

(Texas, USA)

GREENMAX Melter can melt the foam packaging at a ratio of 90:1. For example, if you put 90 m³ of waste foam into the melter, you will have only 1m³ of ingots after melting. The melted ingots can be easily stored by piling up on the pallets.

Apart from that, this recycling method actually offers Living Spaces a new approach to profit too, because INTCO Recycling has the business to purchase back the melted Styrofoam ingots at a high price, which can be used to make recyclable frame products such as mirror frames. In this way, Living Spaces can make money from this waste EPS packaging, which was treated as trashes in the past.

Until now, there are many other companies similar to Living Spaces in the United States that have already cooperated with GREENMAX. And viewing globally, more than 1000 GREENMAX machines have been sold to 68 countries and regions since the brand established the year of 2010. Because customers are satisfied with the high quality and perfect customer service of GREENMAX machines, as well as INTCO Recycling provides complete Styrofoam recycling solution so that customers have no worries.

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