Navigate the yard
The facility
Eight areas, and every one exists to avoid throwing something away.
A container arrives at the gate and takes one of five routes out. Which route it takes is decided by equipment: we can only reuse what we can wash, rebottle what we can straighten, and certify what we can test. Everything in this yard was bought to move the cut-off line one step further down the ladder.
Short answer
Intake and grading, residue evacuation, a nine-station wash line, cage shop, rebottling bench, certification bench, segregated food-grade store and the reclaim area — at 4750 W 160th St, Cleveland, OH 44135.
- Areas
- 8
- Wash stations
- 9
- Test
- 3 psi hold
- Visits
- By appointment
Form 01 · Spec request
Book a visit or a pickup.
Put a preferred day in the message field. Customer pickup is the cheapest way to take delivery if you are within driving distance of Cleveland.
Walk the yard
From the gate to the reclaim pile.
01
Intake and grading pad
Every inbound load is counted, photographed and graded before it moves anywhere else. Prior contents are recorded from labels, plates and shipper paperwork; anything undocumented is flagged immediately because it can never enter the reuse stream.
02
Residue evacuation bay
Heels are drained and captured under containment. Nothing reaches a yard drain. Regulated residue declared in advance is segregated here and routed to licensed treatment.
03
The wash line
Nine stations: triple rinse with a rotating 360-degree head, heated caustic with dwell matched to prior chemistry, live steam finish, forced-air dry, interior lamp inspection and a sealed 3 psi pressure test with hold.
04
Cage and fabrication shop
Straightening jig, welding bays and a stock of galvanised tube. Bowed bars are pulled true, failed welds are cut out and remade, decks are replaced and feet are re-trued. This shop is why our reclaim rate is as low as it is.
05
Rebottling bench
New blow-moulded bottles seated into inspected cages, outlets aligned, new valves, gasket sets and caps fitted to the customer's specified outlet standard.
06
Certification bench
Leakproofness testing, inspection and re-marking for containers returning to regulated service. Records are written against the serial number and issued the same day.
07
Segregated food-grade store
A dedicated pad with dedicated handling equipment. Documented single-trip containers only, stored apart from every other class of stock, with prior-contents records held against each unit.
08
Reclaim area
The last stop. Bottles size-reduced and granulated, steel cut and baled, decks separated by material, everything weighed by stream so the outcome appears on a diversion statement as a number.
What we work on
The container, part by part.
Click any number. Six components, five of which routinely come back through the shop rather than going to reclaim.
Blow-moulded high-density polyethylene, 42 lb
HDPE inner bottle
The bottle is one seamless blow-moulding — no glued seams to fail. Natural (translucent) HDPE lets you see the fill line; black bottles are UV-stabilised for outdoor or light-sensitive cargo.
What we do with it
Rinsed and pressure-tested it goes straight back into service. Cracked or stained past recovery, it is ground to flake and sold as recycled resin.
Visiting
Yard hours and access.
Monday – Thursday
7:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Friday
7:00 AM – 3:00 PM ET
Saturday
By appointment (loads & pickups)
Sunday
Closed
Yard address: 4750 W 160th St, Cleveland, OH 44135. Visits and customer pickups are by appointment so we can have your order staged and a forklift free when you arrive. Full details on the contact page.
Questions
The facility, answered.
01Can I visit the yard?
Yes, by appointment. We are at 4750 W 160th St, Cleveland, OH 44135. Send a request through the form with a preferred day and we will confirm a slot and send the site-access instructions.
02Can I collect an order myself?
Yes, and it is the cheapest option if you are within driving distance. Book a slot, arrive during yard hours, bring straps. We will load you.
03How is food-grade stock kept separate?
Physically. Dedicated pad, dedicated handling, never stacked beside industrial stock and never run on the same wash line in the same shift. Segregation that exists only on paper is not segregation.
04What happens to wash water?
It is captured, settled and routed to compliant treatment. The caustic wash recirculates within its cycle, and residues collected at intake go to licensed treatment rather than to the yard drain.
Capacity and throughput
What the yard can actually process.
Planning figures for customers scoping a wash run, a rebottling batch or a fleet audit.
| Process | Stations | Typical batch | Turnaround | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intake and grading | 1 pad | A full trailer | Same day | Grader time |
| Residue evacuation | 1 bay | By load | Same day | Containment capacity |
| Wash line | 9 stations | By load | 5–10 working days | Caustic dwell time |
| Cage and pallet repair | Welding bays and jig | Continuous | Concurrent | Fabricator time |
| Rebottling bench | 1 bench | By batch | 2–3 weeks | Cage acceptance rate |
| Certification bench | 1 bench | By batch | 3–5 days added | Test cycle time |
| Food-grade pad | Segregated | By allocation | By inbound | Qualifying stock arriving |
| Reclaim area | Granulation and baling | Continuous | Concurrent | Nothing — it is the last stop |
| Arriving condition | First station | Then | Typical outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documented, sound bottle | Grading | Wash line | Reused |
| Documented, failed bottle | Grading | Rebottling bench | Rebottled |
| Documented, damaged cage | Grading | Cage shop, then wash | Repaired and reused |
| Documented, expired plate | Grading | Wash, then certification | Recertified |
| Food-grade candidate | Grading | Segregated pad | Food stock |
| Undocumented | Grading | Reclaim area | Material recovery |
| Regulated residue, declared | Evacuation bay | Compliant route, then grading | Depends on the bottle |
| Rainwater and unknown | Evacuation bay | Reclaim area | Material recovery |
Visiting
What a site visit covers.
Appointments are easy to arrange and there is no substitute for seeing a grade B container in person before you commit to a truckload of them.
| Stop | What you see | Why it matters | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intake pad | How inbound loads are counted, photographed and graded | Shows how your load would be assessed | 15 min |
| Grading bench | Torch inspection, the defects we reject on | The difference between grades, in your hand | 15 min |
| Wash line | Rinse, caustic, steam, dry, pressure test | Where wash certificates come from | 20 min |
| Cage shop | Straightening jig, welding, re-decking | Why our reclaim rate is as low as it is | 15 min |
| Rebottling bench | Bottle fitment and alignment | What a rebottled unit actually is | 10 min |
| Certification bench | Leakproofness testing and marking | How a plate gets its date back | 10 min |
| Food-grade pad | Segregation in practice, not on paper | The claim, demonstrated | 10 min |
| Reclaim area | Granulation, baling, material separation | Where the last 15% goes | 10 min |
Extended FAQ · 5 questions
More questions, answered
01Can I visit the yard?
Yes, by appointment. We are at 4750 W 160th St, Cleveland, OH 44135. Send a preferred day through the form and we will confirm a slot and send site-access instructions.
02Can I collect an order myself?
Yes, and it is the cheapest option within driving distance. Book a slot, arrive during yard hours, bring straps and a vehicle that takes the cube — an empty 275 is 51 cubic feet.
03How is food-grade stock kept separate?
Physically. Dedicated pad, dedicated handling, never stacked beside industrial stock and never run on the same wash line in the same shift.
04What happens to wash water?
It is captured, settled and routed to compliant treatment. The caustic recirculates within its cycle, and residues collected at intake go to licensed treatment rather than to a yard drain.
05Which piece of equipment matters most?
The cage shop, not the wash line. Everyone in this trade has a pressure washer; far fewer have a welding bay and a straightening jig, which is why so many containers with sound bottles and bent cages get scrapped elsewhere.
Next step
Come and look at the stock.
Appointments are easy to arrange and there is no substitute for seeing a grade B tote in person before you commit to a truckload of them.