Nackard Pepsi – A S60XDRC Success Story
Nackard Pepsi is a family-owned enterprise with a proud heritage spanning over 75 years. They are passionately committed to selling and distributing high-quality, name-brand products and providing superior service throughout Arizona’s rural communities. Although their primary goal is to provide the best possible products and service to their customers, an essential part of their mission is to connect with people and drive progress through community outreach, education partnerships, and a strong culture of volunteerism. This strategic approach to community impact enables Nackard Pepsi to meet local needs while empowering employees in the communities where they work and live.
One of the ways they achieve these goals is through their dedicated sustainability efforts.
electric vehicles, recycling at its branches, partnering with their accounts, and so much more!
Since setting up their recycling program through Replenysh, they have recycled over 317,000 pounds, including 71,234 pounds of plastic bottles and aluminum cans.
This video shows how they have increased their recycling efforts in the past few years, receiving more product from the Grand Canyon, local theaters, and other partners.
During this time, they used (and still do) the Harmony ExtractPack Vertical Liquid Extraction Baler. Because of its smaller size, they were producing around four bales per day. With their increased need for efficiency, Nackard reached back out to Harmony to see how we could help.
As a valued partner, Harmony utilized its proven process to recommend a conveyor fed multi-material baler to help them automatically move, cycle, and bale a wide variety of products with our S60XDRC Automatic Multi-Material Baler. From that came their S60XDRC success story!
Their new conveyor-fed system currently process large volumes of PET 1, aluminum, HDPE 2, and tin cans. With their new automatic baler, Nackard produces about five bales per week, though during our busier periods, this can increase to 10–15 bales. The majority of their output is aluminum and PET, with occasional bales of HDPE and tin (approximately one every six months).
Sustainability Coordinator, Brynn Katz spoke to the efficiency and labor savings provided by their new Harmony baler. “Transitioning to the S60XDRC has greatly improved our operational efficiency and output. The new system, with its hopper and conveyor, allows us to easily load product and automate the process, saving significant time and labor. Thanks to this upgrade, we’re now eligible for higher market rates on our bales, which has enabled us to expand our recycling capacity and create more job opportunities.”
“Transitioning to the S60XDRC has greatly improved our operational efficiency and output. The new system, with its hopper and conveyor, allows us to easily load product and automate the process, saving significant time and labor. Thanks to this upgrade, we’re now eligible for higher market rates on our bales, which has enabled us to expand our recycling capacity and create more job opportunities.”
-Brynn Katz, Sustainability Coordinator, Nackard Pepsi
She continued by stating, “We’re sincerely grateful to Harmony for its outstanding customer service, high-quality equipment, and fair pricing. We wouldn’t be making the environmental impact we are today without your support and machinery!”
How Can Harmony Help Today?
Harmony is mutually grateful to the team at Nackard Pepsi for their continued trust in our long lasting partnership. Its through long lasting relationships like these that Harmony add residual value in equipment longevity, quality service, and return on investment.
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