Virginia Polymer Services
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Independent toll processing · Richmond & Petersburg, Virginia

The process step that makes your material work.

Virginia Polymer Services runs solid state polymerization, crystallization, drying, extrusion, grinding, and blending on polyesters, nylons, and specialty polymers. You keep ownership of the material. We handle the step your plant can't.

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Materials
Polyesters, nylons, and other engineering polymers
Scale
Railcars, truckloads, or a single pallet
Plant operation
24 hours, 6 days a week
Systems
Safety, environmental, and quality that compare to far larger firms

01 — Industry position

VPS does not fit a neat category.

Not a resin producer, not a compounder, not a processor. VPS meets a specific need inside each of them. Select a segment to see what that looks like.

Resin Producers convert chemicals into polymers Compounders polymers and additives mixed into compounds Processors plastic products from resin and compounds Users industry and consumers SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP Recyclers reclaim scrap streams RAW MATERIAL FOR COMPOUNDERS OR PROCESSORS A B-1 B-2 C GREEN MARKERS SHOW WHERE VIRGINIA POLYMER SERVICES PERFORMS THE PROCESSING STEP

Resin producers

A major resin producer has customers whose requirements fall outside the existing product mix. Building a new line for a specialty grade rarely pays for itself.

    A

    VPS provides SSP, crystallization, drying, blending, and classification to produce specialty grades that meet those customer requirements, without the producer adding capacity.

    02 — Capabilities

    Five process groups, one plant floor.

    Equipment is sized for pilot runs through full production, so a trial and the order that follows it run on the same systems.

    01

    Batch processing

    Rotary vacuum dryers run a controlled temperature profile per batch, under vacuum or atmospheric conditions.

    • Solid state polymerization
    • Crystallization
    • Vacuum drying
    • Heat treating, air or inert
    • Blending and homogenization

    02

    Extrusion

    Single screw extruders repelletize pellets, regrind, and fines into uniform pellets.

    • Melting and blending
    • Melt filtration
    • Devolatilization
    • Stranding and dicing
    • Pilot through high throughput

    03

    Grinding

    Two grinding systems convert scrap into usable regrind for reuse by VPS or by the customer.

    • Strands, clumps, miscut pellets
    • Plastic parts, sprues, runners
    • Oversized pellet clumps
    • Repurposed post-consumer plastic

    04

    Classification

    Screening and sorting to a target particle distribution, before or after thermal processing.

    • Sizing and screening
    • Fines removal
    • Sorting and blending to spec

    05

    Material handling

    Resin arrives and ships in bulk, boxes, sacks, or drums. Transfer systems are built to keep streams separate.

    • Conveying systems and hoppers
    • Dedicated lines per material
    • Designed against cross-contamination
    • Dust and particle control

    03 — Locations

    Two plants, forty minutes apart.

    Richmond handles thermal and extrusion work. Petersburg is built around size reduction and repurposed plastic.

    Richmond

    THERMAL & EXTRUSION

    2702 Richmond Highway
    Richmond, VA 23234

    Shipping 7:30am – 5:00pm
    Plant operation 24 hours, 6 days

    On site

    • Rotary vacuum dryers
    • SSP
    • Crystallization
    • Vacuum drying
    • Single screw extrusion
    • Melt filtration
    • Blending
    • Classification

    Petersburg

    SIZE REDUCTION & REPURPOSED PLASTIC

    Petersburg, Virginia

    Dedicated grinding capacity for post-industrial and post-consumer streams, kept separate from the Richmond thermal lines.

    On site

    • Granulation
    • Repurposed plastic grinding
    • Regrind production
    • Sorting
    • Bulk handling

    04 — Sustainability

    Recycling work since the 2000s, expanded recently.

    Most of what VPS does keeps material in use. Some of it is the only route back to prime quality that a given scrap stream has.

    In production now

    • SSP for RPET pellets meeting FDA requirements for bottle-to-bottle recycling
    • SSP for RPET in high IV applications: strapping, high-strength filaments, EBM bottles
    • SSP and crystallization extrusion for post-industrial recycling, raising reuse of PI scrap and cutting virgin resin
    • Processing, sorting, and blending that brings scrap polyester and nylon back to near-prime

    In development with partners

    • Removing surface coating from coated films
    • Drying and melt filtering PET fines with high water and aluminum content
    • Recycling PET sheet regrind into raw material for new sheet via SSP, without repelletizing
    • Converting compound scrap into ground, sorted, blended material for compounding
    • Processing low viscosity polymers into a high surface-area blown fiber matrix

    05 — Request a quote

    Tell us what the material is and what it needs.

    Most inquiries get a response within one business day. If you have a spec sheet or a COA, mention it and we'll follow up for the file.

    New business
    Gregg Fenton, Owner
    gregg@virginiapolymer.com
    Phone
    1-804-233-1315
    Richmond plant
    2702 Richmond Highway
    Richmond, VA 23234
    Processing needed