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International premium shrink wrap supplier, Dr. Shrink, continues to grow. The company welcomes Poron Oil & Maritime Ltd. as its distributor for Nigeria.
“We’re thrilled to partner with Poron Oil and Maritime in Nigeria,” said Mike Stenberg, Dr. Shrink president. “With their relationships in the region, we know they’ll be a great addition to the Dr. Shrink distributor family.”
Poron Oil & Maritime Ltd. is a leading oil and maritime service provider fully incorporated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom to deliver superior results and improved performance for oil and gas engineering, petroleum trading, maritime and shipping services, and logistics companies. The company utilizes Lloyds Maritime Academy, UK training and certification.
For contact information for Poron Oil and Maritime, please click here: https://dr-shrink.com/contact-us/

We recently had another unique and innovative shrink wrap application that we would like to share.  In the Lena Meijer Children’s Garden at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan (located about two hours south of Manistee, MI) there is a replica of all five Great Lakes where children can launch a boat and observe as it flows from one lake to the next.


This water feature needs to be shrink wrapped every winter to protect from weather damage. Brett McPherson, positioned in Facility Maintenance at Meijer Gardens, and his team spend about 2-3 days shrink wrapping the lakes every year at the end of October. First, the lakes are drained and then a custom PVC frame is put in place to rest inside the lakes, which provides the framework to shrink wrap around. The PVC frame is basically one long spine running down the center of the lakes with angled legs going down the outside edges. Brett also installs eyelets around the base of the lakes to tie the perimeter band to.
Brett states, “This process takes about 2-3 days depending on the weather. We usually remove the wrap in April/May; basically when we’re not worried about freezing anymore. We use Dr. Shrink’s 12’ x 149’ white 7-mil shrink wrap and it works well for us.” Meijer Gardens have been shrink wrapping the water feature in the Great Lakes Garden for the last 8 years. Take a look at the before and after pictures. This is a terrific example of the various and unique applications for our shrink wrapping products. Thank you for working with us, Brett and thanks for sharing your application!



All photos courtesy of William J. Hebert and Brett McPherson

With a reputation for high-quality products and service, Dr. Shrink was awarded Distributor of the Year by Shrinkfast Marketing. The international premium shrink wrap supplier was given this honor not only due to its high volume sales, but also its unique approach to marketing and training. Dr. Shrink also serves as an authorized heat tool repair center.
“Dr. Shrink offers marketing programs for its customers and Shrink Wrap University, a hands-on training workshop that not only shows the proper way to wrap assets, but also gives tips on smart business practices, insurance and other know-how,” said Chuck Milliken, Shrinkfast director, sales and marketing. “They really understand how our product works and have the ability to train others. Their unique and all-encompassing approach to business really sets them apart.”
“We’re thrilled with this honor,” said Dr. Shrink president Mike Stenberg. “Shrinkfast has the best heat tool on the market and we’re proud to offer it to our customers.”
With 212,000 BTUs of power, a person can shrink wrap a 40″ x 48″ x 60″ pallet in less than two minutes with the Shrinkfast 998. Its ergonomic design and fan-shaped combustor offer an even and steady heat pattern. Shrinkfast 998 extensions are also available in 2′, 4′ and 6′ lengths.
Check out the Shrinkfast 998 [wpsc_products product_id=’205′]

Andy Gale can find a use for just about anything. Used fryer oil? Convert that into biodiesel fuel, and that’s just the beginning.
Gale is the founder of Bay Area Recycling for Charities (BARC), a nonprofit organization whose net profits are donated to local charities. The company, which operates in Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Antrim, Leelanau, Benzie, and Manistee counties, was founded by Gale in 2008. Gale, who moved from Chicago to Traverse City in 2008, had little knowledge about recycling, but was passionate about environmental sustainability.
“I didn’t know anything about recycling but I wanted to learn more about it,” says Gale. “And I wanted to be a better recycling and so I started the organization to learn about how it works, and how it functions, and what markets are there, and how those systems all work together.”
What started as a small operation with Gale driving a pickup truck and collecting recycled material from businesses and residences has quickly grew into an operation employing ten people with a fast-growing line of new products and services.
As business grew, Gale had to hire more drivers to meet the demand for collecting recycled material. Once collected, the recycling is taken to a processing plant in Maple City; there, materials are sorted and then sold to brokers. According to Gale, BARC processes fifteen tons of cardboard, 3-6 tons of compost, 2-4 tons of recycling, and one ton of e-waste each week.
Soon BARC began offering a composting service.
“It involves carbon and nitrogen,” says Jordan Byron, who is manager of products and promotions at BARC. “The carbon comes from leaves, branches, and wood chips, so we started picking up yard waste from residents. The nitrogen comes from food, so we pick up food waste from Oryana, Great Wolf Lodge, the Little Fleet, and other places. You combine that and you keep turning it, and pretty soon within 200 days you’ve got some soil.”
Gale had more ideas for making sustainability a marketable enterprise, so he forayed into selling compostable plates and silverware, a venture that’s paying off already.
“For just the month of June this year we did a little over twenty five thousand dollars in compostable sales, and July is on its way to being somewhere between thirty and thirty five thousand,” says Byron.
Other new products involve converting used fryer oil into biodiesel fuel, and compostable product packaging made from mycelium, or mushroom “roots.”
“Say your new Vizio TV comes and you open it up, and take off all the packaging. That packaging, you can just throw that right out in your front yard and three days later it’s nothing. It’s back into the soil,” Byron says.
BARC has also expanded into doing zero-waste events.
“First was Film Fest. Andy probably started with that about three years ago. [Now we] handle the whole waste stream so that there’s virtually no trash and it will all be composted and recycled,’” says Byron.
BARC has done twelve zero-waste weddings this summer, and 2013 was the first year the company handled waste from the National Cherry Festival.
“In years past, that eight day event generated around 30 to 33 tons of pure landfill waste and so we came in and said, ‘well do it; we’re going to start changing the culture.’
Now Gale and BARC are looking into a social project to make Traverse City the “greenest” city in Michigan by 2020 — something he believes is attainable.
“We’re trying to change the culture and it’s pretty easy in this town to do that. Traverse City is like a mini Portland or Burlington or Seattle; the culture that is now coming into town is much younger, much more vibrant.”
 Andy and BARC have worked with Dr. Shrink, Inc. for four years with their Recycling Run program.  This program is an inexpensive way to recycle shrink wrap covers that come off in the spring and summer months.  For more information, please visit www.recycling-run.com.  
Sourced from: The Ticker News, Jack Hagen
Publish Date: August 3, 2013