<B>Star Services Group Inks Deal with Jefferson Smurfit</B>

Star Services Group, Inc., a Florida-based recycling operations, signed a three-year contract with Jefferson Smurfit to supply the company with various grades of recovered fiber.

The contact signing follows the opening of Star’s new paper processing plant. According to Patrick Marzono, Star Services’ president, the new facility will be able to handle around 400 tons of recovered fiber a month from its materials recovery facilities.

“It makes a positive impact on the revenues and the margins of profitability. The paper flow coming from the City of Deerfield Beach amounts to approximately 275 tons per month. With the additional paper that our trucks can be picking up, we should be fairly close to capacity almost from the beginning."

The company had been shipping various grades of recovered fiber to Smurfit for several months, although the company only recently received a permit to operate the baler.

Previously to the deal with Smurfit Star had been acting basically as a hauler of various recyclables to other recycling facilities in the area.

Along with inking the deal with Smurfit, Star Services recently entered into a contract with the city of Deerfield Beach, Fla., to handle all the recovered fiber it collects from the city.

Along with recovered fiber, Star Services is the largest construction & demolition processor in the state. “This paper processing facility broadens our service to customers. It also continues the process of making Star into an environmentally favorable company whose operations help clean up and reuse debris,” Marzano added.

Star owns or operates 10 C&D processing facilities, two lake-fill operations and two waste collection and portable sanitation operations. The MRF is the first move by Star to get involved in the secondary fiber segment of the recycling industry.