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May 20, 2002 02:00 AM

RTG leases RTI's crumb rubber plant in L.A.

Miles Moore
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    An expansion-minded New Jersey tire recycler has come to the rescue of a financially strapped California firm by leasing its Los Angeles crumb rubber facility.

    Recovery Technologies Group Inc. has been operating the L.A. plant of Rubber Technology International Inc. on an interim basis since Feb. 26, according to RTG President Marty Sergi. The arrangement will become permanent as soon as the necessary permits are approved, which should happen by early June.

    RTG needed a base of operations for the Southwestern market, according to Sergi. Meanwhile, an RTI release said the lease agreement eliminates almost all its overhead while providing the Los Angeles-based company with a steady stream of income.

    ``We've been working together for four or five months,'' Sergi said. ``We've worked very well together, and we got their production up substantially.''

    According to the RTI release, the California firm decided to lease its crumb rubber facility after months of exploring both a restructuring of its finances and possible offers of acquisition.

    ``The company's attempt to develop alternative financing options to cover its cash shortfall, which resulted from last year's order cancellations and postponements, were not successful,'' the release stated.

    The last news release on RTI's Web site before the leasing arrangement with RTG was about a 389-percent increase in gross revenues in July 2001, to more than $440,000. Officials of RTI could not be reached for comment.

    RTG continues to supply the asphalt rubber market from the facility in Los Angeles, a major market for RTI. But it also is moving the plant's production to customers in the field and playground surfacing area, which is a much bigger market for RTG than asphalt rubber, Sergi said.

    Based in Guttenberg, N.J., RTG is a major player in the tire collection and recycling industries. It has large tire collection contracts with such firms as Bridgestone/Firestone and Wal-Mart Inc.

    Last year, the company made headlines when it won a contract from Ford Motor Co. to recycle as many as 13 million Firestone tires the auto maker recalled from Ford owners.

    RTG has facilities and operations all over North America, including New Jersey, Maine, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

    Its most recent acquisition is a 90,000-sq.-ft. cryogenic tire grinding plant in Moncks Corner, S.C., that was owned by the former Santee River Rubber L.L.C., which ceased operations in 2000. RTG purchased the facility March 1 and expects to have it operating by July 15, according to Sergi.

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