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Elastizell Corporation of America

7900 Second Street
Dexter, MI 48130
(734) 426-6076
http://www.elastizell.com

Business Overview

Elastizell Corporation of America specializes in the testing, manufacture and distribution of materials and equipment for cellular concrete applications.

Sustainable Business Practices

Elastizell Corporation of America researches and develops products for use in the manufacture of cellular Elastizell concrete. They minimize their products environmental impact by recycling the rinse water after each day of manufacturing and excess research concrete mixes are cast into usable blocks, rather than being thrown away. For these and other reasons, Elastizell insulating concrete is recognized as a "Green building material and has been used in several LEED certified projects.

Elastizell continues to investigate and approve use of waste materials such as fly ashes removed from coal burning power plants and Cement Kiln Dust collected from cement plant smoke stacks. A new project, implemented in the last year is the possible reuse of recycled glass powders in cellular concrete applications. These waste materials are used in large scale projects all over the country, thus reducing the amount of these materials that would otherwise be placed in landfills.

In addition to these activities, Elastizell Corporation of America also reuses and recycles many items from their office area including office furniture, paper, cardboard, packing material, plastic, glass, scrap metal, computers, batteries, fluorescent lights, ink jet cartridges, and motor oil. After using paper on both sides, it is shredded and used for packing material. In the last year, Elastizell gutted an old house on their property and recycled everything possible. Also, Elastizell recycles old chest freezers as concrete specimen curing tanks. This year, Elastizell resized theirsample box shipping containers to make them more easily reusable by their applicators. As a result, theirapplicators will be returning test samples in these recycled cardboard boxes. In the last year, Elastizell has made a major effort in developing methods of carbon sequestration. Theyare attempting to reduce greenhouse gasses by creating ways of entraining carbon dioxide, flue gasses and other carbon sources in cellular concrete. Elastizell takes recycling and reuse very seriouslyand is continually looking for new ways to increase usage of reusable and recycled materials and to make the facility more environmentally friendly and sustainable.