PacTec's progress would not be possible without the incredible members of #teampactec. As we continue our MEET THE TEAM series of spotlights, we want to introduce one of our behind-the-scenes heroes, Amanda Roussel. Very little of what gets produced at PacTec happens without first crossing Amanda's desk, whose business card reads Mechanical Designer, mainly because we didn't have space to put all her true titles. 😉

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

Was Faith Hill singing about PacTec's Amanda Cavin in her song "Mississippi Girl" when she crooned, "I still like wearing my old ball cap, riding my kids around piggyback?" 

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

It is no secret that there have been rapid increases in recent months of propylene resins, mainly due to increases in demand and challenges with supply. Plant operations have slowed significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, raw materials have been reallocated to produce PPE, and recent weather events have further complicated matters.

Topics: Containment, industrial waste, nuclear waste, waste packaging price, costsavings

Katherine Laborde, one of the newest members of PacTec's sales team, is taking our West Coast sales territory by storm.

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

When it comes to truck tarps or roll off container tarps, you have a lot of options. But when comparing those options, are you considering all the features that will get you to the perfect solution?

Topics: Containment, industrial waste, waste packaging price, flexible waste packaging

Back in 1736, Benjamin Franklin proclaimed that “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Clearly, he knew that preventing the cause was better than dealing with the effect, in this case fires in Philadelphia. So does the same apply to oil spills on jobsites? We believe that it is much easier to learn how to prevent oil spills and oil contamination than it is to clean up after them. Taking the time to plan ahead will pay dividends in the long run, so let’s cover what you should take into consideration.

Topics: Containment

With Christmas soon approaching and many local families uncertain of how to afford Christmas given the challenges of COVID, PacTec, Inc. teamed up with the local Marine Corps to do a corporate Toys for Tots challenge to “Pack the Bag” with new toys. A continuation of their annual charitable fundraising efforts, employees from all departments of PacTec, Inc. of Clinton, LA donated toys for local children in hopes of filling one of their cubic yard waste packaging bags. Together, their nearly 100 Clinton based employees reached their goal, collecting over 200 toys valued at nearly $5,000. They were donated to the local Marine Corps to be distributed to children in need in East Feliciana parish in time for Christmas.

Topics: Insider, Community

One of the Most Valuable Players on Team PacTec’s Berm Production Crew is none other than Gerard Andrus. An eight-year member of the squad, Gerard is one of the greatest sealers of all time.

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

Let’s face it, sometimes regulations seem to get in the way of us just getting a job done, am I right? While spill containment may feel like one of those unnecessary burdens when setting up equipment or starting work, there are many good reasons to view it as a critical element. For our purposes, spill containment will encompass any temporary spill berm or spill tray designed to catch any potential spill or release of chemicals, oils, sewage, or other harmful liquid to prevent them from reaching the soil or groundwater.

Topics: Containment, industrial waste, cost, costsavings

One of our corporate office's bubbliest personalities is PacTec's Administrative and Credit Manager, Mandy Nettles. With a title like that, you could only imagine how much territory she covers; however, the most vital function she provides is credit & collections.

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

Since PacTec began over 30 years ago, significant innovations in flexible waste packaging have occurred, creating a large shift in the way waste generators safely transport and dispose of problematic waste streams. You’re no longer restricted to using bulky, heavy, expensive, and difficult-to-manage rigid containers. While rigid containers may have their place in certain applications, the mindset has shifted towards the safety and reliability of flexible waste packaging for most industrial and nuclear waste types.

Let’s put to rest some common misconceptions about flexible waste packaging.

Topics: Containment, industrial waste, nuclear waste, waste packaging price, flexible waste packaging

There’s one man around here that racks up more forklift mileage than any other - PacTec’s Lead Shipping & Receiving Warehouseman, Mr. Charles Fisher. Every day you’ll find him zipping around pulling orders from inventory to prepare for shipment, storing stock items in row after row of inventory racking, even keeping up with inventory in/out.

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

The market for Industrial hemp is projected to grow over 30% in coming years, reaching well into the billions of US dollars. With the growing awareness among consumers, increased legalization, and diverse application of hemp in myriad industries like textile, food, paper, and pharmaceuticals, we expect this growth to remain strong.

Topics: waste packaging price, flexible waste packaging, costsavings

Industrial Plants, Refineries, Wastewater Treatment facilities and the like are all gearing up to perform scheduled maintenance tasks this quarter and have turned to PacTec year after year for cost-saving solutions to their waste packaging needs.

An ISO 9001 Certification is an internationally recognized standard used to certify quality management systems (QMS). Organizations become certified to the standard for many reasons, most importantly to commit to delivering consistency in its product and delivery systems, manufacturing processes and customer service.

It was the first day of September back in 1990 when an unemployed Mike Sanchez began working for PacTec, Inc., then just a 3-man start-up selling an innovative new design of truck and dumpster liners from a tiny office in rural Clinton, LA. Now employing nearly 200 employees across several continents, PacTec has enjoyed immense growth and success during Mike’s years.

Topics: Insider, Careers, Awards, teampactec

Tina turns the adage Jack of All Trades, Master of None on its head – by holding more roles than everyone else and doing them all extremely well. She is the friendly voice that greets customers on the phone, the warm smile welcoming visitors to our campus, and the barista we never knew we needed!

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

Maria holds one of the most important roles at PacTec: Quality Assurance. In her 6 years with us, she has quickly grown from Sales Engineer to overseeing our entire Quality Management System, vital to our mission of providing consistently high-quality products to our customers. She was instrumental in obtaining our ISO 9001:2015 certification, in addition to ensuring we proactively follow all NQA-1 requirements expected by our customers at DOE sites.

Topics: Insider, Careers, teampactec

Topics: Containment, cost, costsavings

Biological and organic waste disposal is exponentially more important during a pandemic – or when preventing the next one. We’ve seen wildlife and domesticated animals spread pathogens that are harmful to humans, and we’ll continue to see that unless we implement the right waste disposal procedures now.

Topics: industrial waste

Idaho National Labs, a US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, was looking to meet regulatory milestones and reduce costs for a massive planned LLMW cleanup effort, and engaged PacTec MacroBags®, the easy-to-use flexible packaging that meets US DOT shipping regulations AND is approved as MACRO TREATMENT, meeting the LDR requirement for disposal. Low Level Mixed Waste (LLMW) is a waste stream that is both a hazardous waste and a radioactive waste. This combination of hazards in one waste results in a limited number of treatment and disposal options for generators and subsequently high treatment and disposal costs.

Topics: Containment, nuclear waste, flexible waste packaging, costsavings

PacTec, Inc. of Clinton, LA is proud to announce and celebrate Micah Schilling’s recent achievement of earning his Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a dual concentration in finance and management from Tulane University in New Orleans. While working full-time in the family business, Micah pursued an intensive virtual and on-campus schedule to achieve this goal. In addition to helping lead PacTec’s business development, Micah also serves as an integral member of the management team developing the vision for increasing the company’s international presence.

At PacTec, we’re always working to innovate and offer better solutions for your waste needs. We manufacture packaging options and engineer solutions so you can safely and easily contain spills and prevent accidents.

Topics: flexible waste packaging

Today, we want to talk about the process of dewatering, an essential aspect of waste minimization and containment solutions for wastewater. It’s a process used in many industries to minimize waste and convert liquids into solid waste for quick and efficient disposal.

Topics: dewatering

To our customers and constituents,

To our customers and constituents,

As a valued part of the PacTec, Inc. family, I appreciate the trust you place in us and our products to help you conduct your business. Like you, we are actively monitoring the rapidly developing global situation of the COVID-19 (coronavirus). Please find pertinent information below about how PacTec is handling the situation.

With dozens of manufacturers and retailers offering variations of polyethylene liners for roll-off containers and dumpsters, how can you sort through it all to find the perfect fit for your needs?

Topics: Containment, industrial waste, flexible waste packaging

PacTec employees wrapped up their year-long charitable fundraising efforts for 2019 by making a $2,000 donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Topics: Community

On Monday, October 21, employees of PacTec, Inc. of Clinton, LA participated in East Feliciana Parish’s awareness and fundraising events in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Employees wore pink for the day, made donations, learned facts about the disease, and shared stories about loved ones affected. Our overseas workers even helped support the cause by going pink in the Philippines.

Topics: Community

Topics: Containment, industrial waste, nuclear waste, waste packaging price, flexible waste packaging, cost

At PacTec, we've been working like dogs to create the most robust, compliant and cost-effective packaging solutions for all levels of nuclear waste. Like Fido above, our customers can attest to the many reasons why they feel flexible packaging is superior to traditional rigid containment.

Topics: Containment, nuclear waste

CLINTON, La. - PacTec, Inc. was recently recognized by UCOR as the 2019 Small Business of the Year for the third time in the award program history. UCOR, an AECOM-led partnership with Jacobs leading the cleanup efforts of the U. S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Reservation, recognized companies whose extraordinary customer service and unique solutions improved UCOR’s productivity and efficiency that lead to cost, time, and resource savings.

Topics: Awards, networking event, flexible waste packaging

While PacTec prides itself on our custom engineered nuclear solutions, we're also quality manufacturers of common industrial waste products that you likely have a need for. If you're not already familiar with some of our offerings, please allow us to introduce you to them here.

Topics: industrial waste, nuclear waste

PacTec Employees Clayton Hand, Abby Cougle, Bo Gilkison and Ed Gilkison recently went on a week-long mission trip to Nicaragua with their local church.

Dewatering is used in many industries for waste minimization and to convert liquid waste into solid waste for disposal. Our customers have realized significant cost savings by utilizing geotextile bags/tubes over alternative methods such as expensive dewatering box rentals, mechanical presses, sludge lagoons, wet hauling or sand drying beds.

Topics: dewatering

In a recent cost-saving effort among 2 large Environmental Management sites to share resources, PacTec NucPacs were utilized to safely transport equipment over 300 miles while eliminating any potential risk of contamination to the environment. The equipment was securely overpacked in custom-manufactured NucPacs to aide in their risk reduction and cost savings initiatives.

HANFORD TO PERFORM FINAL ASSESSMENT BEFORE RESUMING PFP DEMOLITION

Plutonium Finishing Plant workers conduct full-scale dress rehearsals, or mockups, to train on enhanced safety controls and work procedures before demolition resumes.

Company’s $2.5 million capital investment will retain 95 jobs and create 15 new jobs

CLINTON, La. — Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards and PacTec Inc. President Mike Schilling announced the company will make a $2.5 million capital investment to expand its Clinton manufacturing site. The expansion will retain 95 existing jobs while creating 15 new direct jobs.

With school beginning just weeks away, employees of PacTec, Inc. of Clinton, LA continued their annual charitable fundraising efforts for 2018 by holding a school supply drive for school age children in East Feliciana parish. Their goal was to “Pack the Bag” – filling one of their cubic yard waste packaging bags with items from local school supply lists. Together, their nearly 100 Clinton based employees reached their goal, collecting over $1,000 in supplies to donate to the East Feliciana School Board.

The US DOE Office of Environmental Management is nearing completion of the remediation work at the Clean Slate sites just north of the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). This work involves excavating, packaging, and disposing of contaminated soil and debris at the NNSS.

A senior project manager for a PacTec, Inc. customer in Alaska recently sent us these 2 security camera photos with the following note: 

Nothing conjures up fear for waste transporters like an overturned load and the fallout from an investigation. This nightmare has unfortunately played out all too often on our nation's highways, but we know that liability can be properly mitigated by utilizing the proper packaging solutions.

WASTE PACKAGING INDUSTRY LEADER PACTEC, INC. ANNOUNCES OPENING OF NEW MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN BATON ROUGE, LA

Realizing significant cost savings in packaging hazardous wastes for disposal by utilizing FIBCs in lieu of rigid IBCs. When considering packaging methods for hazardous wastes, many people focus on just one number - the cost of the disposal unit itself. This is often shortsighted, as significant cost savings can be realized in many other places. A holistic approach should be utilized in properly evaluating hazardous waste disposal options.

PacTec, Inc. has been helping landfills realize significant cost savings for years with our landfill cover. The LandPac® is designed to meet the stringent regulations for landfill sites, it has proven to be a great municipality-approved ADC.

Waste haulers often cause headaches for their disposal facilities by generating large dust clouds when dumping fine, powdery wastes that are easily carried by the winds. This can cause a number of environmental compliance problems for the facility and have an impact on the health and safety of staff, customers and neighboring communities. These dust clouds can also lead to an increased risk of incurring regulatory infractions and fines.

PacTec, Inc. continues to support our friends and customers in regions devastated by recent storms. We're currently shipping pallets of poly tarps to those in need in Puerto Rico. Several groups have deployed teams to the island to assist in rebuilding, and PacTec is proud to support their efforts.

Although the responsibility to maintain compliance ultimately falls on the end user, by having simple spill containment solutions available for your customers to use, you become more than a rental company – you become a solutions provider.

PacTec, Inc. was proud to again sponsor and exhibit at the 2017 Radwaste Summit this week in Henderson, NV.

Our thoughts and prayers are with our customers, employees, friends and neighbors in Houston and along the Texas Coast. We know all too well how devastating a flooding rain event can be. PacTec will do whatever we can to assist you in recovery.

PacTec, Inc. employees proudly present their $1,500 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital donation check. (front row) Lesley Kelly, Mike Sanchez, Morgan Bowman and Trey Castleberry. (back row) Ed Gilkison, Erin Graves, Kalyn Newman, Callie Gilkison, Mandy Nettles and Meredith Smith.

PacTec’s LiftPac® FIBC bags (flexible intermediate bulk containers) are engineered for a variety of uses. These certified IP-1 and IP-2 flexible packages are a cost-effective alternative to other methods for the storage and transport of many waste types, including LLW and VLLW nuclear waste.

If your days are spent washing out your truck beds and trailers instead of hauling waste, then you are literally washing away your profit. Consider for a moment your cost of labor, man-hours, lost jobs and water/cleaning supply costs – and we’re talking some serious cash down the drains.

This was what the regional buyer for one of the largest specialty waste companies in the United States recently wrote in to tell us. They provide remediation, disposal, recycling, and beneficial reuse solutions for contaminated soil, dredged material, drill cuttings, and hazardous and non-hazardous wastes.

When electrical transformers are in need of servicing or repair, nothing complicates matters more than when they leak. The risk of accidental injury, fines from PCB exposure and costly or labor-intensive cleanup all become immediate concerns. PacTec’s innovative Transformer Containment Bag eliminates all of these concerns.

We invite you to visit with us in Booth #822 at the upcoming Waste Management Symposia, March 5-9, 2017 to learn about the most innovative flexible nuclear waste packaging solutions on the market.

Unlike other FIBC’s on the market, PacTec’s self-standing bulk bags offers many key advantages that will make your job easier. We’ve received feedback from hundreds of customers, and these are the top 10 reasons they’re falling in love with this waste packaging solution.

PacTec has pioneered and patented a cost effective treatment technology for the secure macroencapsulation of radioactive hazardous debris. The MacroBag™ is a flexible package approved for use at several disposal sites including NNSS. It can be used to safely package and dispose of RLS and low-level mixed waste debris.

It happens to the best of us... We misplace our keys, our cell phones, and sometimes our glasses.

PLEASE NOTE: 

Our offices will be closed on Friday, December 23 & Monday, December 26 so that our employees may celebrate the holidays with their loved ones.

Hundreds of Overstocked Industrial Waste Packaging Products Must Be Sold!

Are you using the right disposable container liner? There are many sources of disposable container liners for your roll off containers, dumpsters, rail gondolas and dump trucks. But are you using the right one?

Our team would love to visit with you about PacTec, Inc.'s spill solutions on this last day of Clean Gulf in sunny Tampa, FL. Stop by Booth 225 today.

Representatives from PacTec, Inc. are shown with our PacTec EPS, Ltd. team at the recent Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Expo in Manchester, United Kingdom. From left are Liz Bowe, Mike Sanchez, Mike Nichols and Caleb Dunn. The Expo brings together buyers and sellers interested in "delivering success together" for Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

PacTec, Inc. will be showcasing the newest in Spill Containment solutions at the upcoming Clean Gulf show November 1-3, 2016. We invite you to come see our live demos of waste packaging and containment solutions that will help you save money while keeping your the environment safe. We are in corner BOOTH 225.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced the names of the businesses and organizations which have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2016 Supply Chain Awards.

PACTEC, INC. PARTICIPATES IN GEAUX PINK FOR BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

PacTec, Inc. will be showcasing the newest in Spill Containment solutions at the upcoming Permian Basin International Oil Show (PBIOS) October 18-20, 2016. We invite you to come see our live demos on solutions that will help you save money while keeping your site in compliance.

A large environmental services customer of PacTec, Inc. recently wrote us about their experience with our RailPac railcar liners.

At PacTec, Inc., we put a great deal of effort into our products, our customer service and our commitment to quality.
It goes without saying that our logo, our brand mark, convey those core values and what defines us a company.

A large environmental remediation company in the NorthEast recently reached out to PacTec, Inc. with help solving a rail loading problem.

Another full shipping container of PacTec, Inc.'s self-standing bulk bags, UN-rated for Packaging groups I, II, and III, arrived this morning. These bags are proving to be extremely popular, selling like hot cakes to remediation companies, waste haulers, and municipalities holding Household Hazardous Waste collection events.

For the past 8 years, PacTec, Inc. has been a partnering with several government and private agencies on hazardous waste cleanup at FUDS (Formerly Used Defense Sites) in Alaska.

PacTec, Inc. continues to support the local relief efforts of the recent devastating floods in our area by donating hundreds of LiftPacs and cubic yard bags to local authorities. Several groups, including FEMA, EOC, and local parish public works are all taking immediate action to help local citizens begin the recovery process, and PacTec is proud to support their efforts.

Although all PacTec, Inc. facilities were spared from the unprecedented flooding in Louisiana, many of friends, colleagues, and business partners were not so fortunate. We extend our thoughts and prayers to everyone facing difficult times ahead.

While Hydraulic Fracturing companies are being pressed to save money in today’s oil & gas economy, PacTec, Inc. was able to help KEANE considerably reduce their costs.

We asked Ryan Giacone of LEI Recycling to give us his honest feedback after using PacTec’s new self-standing LiftPac in their battery recycling operation. His unedited responses are below.

PacTec, Inc. continues to revolutionize the waste industry by bringing innovative solutions to market. Our patented LiftPac™ is the only self-standing, UN rated zipper top bag currently available. It is the perfect solution for disposal of household hazardous waste, contaminated soil or PPE. The rigid corrugated fiberboard walls allow the bag to be self-standing, while the glued in 6 mil PE liner provides ultimate leak protection. It contains the equivalent of four 55-gallon drums at a significant savings in cost and storage space. It is lightweight, easy-to-assemble, and can easily be lifted by a forklift through its attached lifting loops.

Michael Alamorian, Waste Masters In-Plant Services Director at the Delaware City Refinery, writes a nice letter about PacTec, Inc. products helping him on his jobsite.

“The PacTec, Inc. railcar liners worked very well for our application. The cars traveled hundreds of kilometers by rail without incident. I would calculate a 50% reduction in labour thus a reduction in cost versus previous methods lining rail cars.”

PacTec, Inc. was recently commended by the Navarro Research and Engineering Project Manager Paul Franco for the superior performance of our products used to dewater sludge from an evaporative cooling tower basin at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. In a written letter to our Director of Nuclear Sales, Franco writes how they “were very pleased with the rapid turnaround of our orders” and continues with how “the dewatering bags performed better than expected.”

Come visit the industry leader in flexible packaging for members of the Louisiana Chemical Industry, PacTec, Inc., at Booth #107 this Thursday at the LCIA Trade Show in Lake Charles. Our representatives will be there discussing our newest innovative waste packaging products for the industry, AND handing out drink tickets. Be sure not to miss it.

Before the school year began in the Philippines, PacTec, Inc. employees in the Unites States came together to raise funds to purchase much needed school supplies for all children of our Subic Bay plant colleagues. This year, we were able to provide 68 students from pre-school age through college age with supplies necessary for them to be successful in school.

Recently, a large refinery needed to remove coke fines from a major piece of equipment while also protecting the pumping equipment and keeping the fines from reaching the storage tanks. Several filtration options were evaluated by the process engineers, including their existing solids removal system and a continuous backflush mechanical filtration system. While all seemed promising on a small scale, when tested full-scale, the filtration data collected clearly shows that PacTec’s GeoPacs were the most efficient and cost effective solution.

Employees of PacTec, Inc. of Clinton, LA continued their annual charitable fundraising efforts for 2016 by making a $1,500 donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Funds were raised in $2 increments in exchange for wearing blue jeans on dedicated days. PacTec, Inc. then matched dollar-for-dollar what employees contributed, empowering their team to make a bigger difference. The staff voted for St. Jude as their charity this year due to the impact it has on young children nationwide. “St. Jude means a great deal to us, especially because many of us know local families who have benefitted from the services,” says Trey Castleberry, Marketing Director at PacTec, Inc.

PacTec's revolutionary InstaBerm with pop-up sidewalls is engineered as a single unit, where the interior folding brackets are permanently attached so they cannot be lost or stolen. The sidewalls are easily raised and lowered as an alternative to fixed bracketed solutions, allowing for equipment drive-on and drive-off.

PacTec, Inc. continues to bring innovative solutions to market, and we are proud to introduce the TransPac® Transformer Containment Bag. This flexible package is the safe way to contain leaking transformers for transport to service centers. Our proprietary design is the first in the industry to utilize a zipper closure for ease of use in the field. The heavy-duty, multi-layer bag includes a full absorbent inner layer and is also lightweight, compact and easily stored on service trucks.

Topics: Transformer, Containment

Come visit the industry leader in flexible packaging for the Nuclear Industry, PacTec, Inc., at Booth #822 at the Waste Management Symposia March 6-10, 2016. We have some of the industry's most innovative LLW solutions, and are eager to demonstrate them to you.

February 2, 2016: Bethlehem Township, PA

Each year, PacTec, Inc. attends the LSU Career Fair looking for the best and brightest young professionals to join our growing business. This year, we saw an unusually large crowd of students eager to join the workforce. Attending this year were 2 LSU graduates, Caleb Dunn and Micah Schilling. Although we are currently not hiring, we are always accepting resumes to consider when the need arises. PacTec, Inc. wishes all of this years graduates a prosperous future.

Several employees are in Indianapolis, IN representing PacTec, Inc. during the United Rentals Supplier Show.

PacTec, Inc. is proud to be a Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) partner of United Rentals.

PacTec, Inc. of Clinton, LA recently presented the US Marines Toys for Tots campaign with a truckload of brand new toys for less fortunate children in our area. 

In an article in "The Tennessean", the state of Tennessee is looking to enforce action and fines against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) because of proposed coal ash pollution seeping into the groundwater, which would include the Cumberland River, the region's main source of drinking water.

Topics: Power plant

While many states and municipalities have relied on recycling programs as the primary solution to decreasing the burden on overcrowded landfills, the region of Northwest Arkansas is also looking into the way it handles the disposal of sewer sludge.

Topics: Landfill

PacTec, Inc. has been named Company of the Year (fewer than 100 employees) by Greater Baton Rouge Business Report. Click here to read the article.

Topics: Awards