As a team, we care about creating quality products that will positively impact our environment, enhance people’s lives, and truly make a difference in communities across the world.
Living the Mission
The Beauty of Living our Mission Locally
To be good stewards of what we‘ve been given by giving back to our community with the team we’ve assembled and the products that we produce.
18th St Clean Up
The Composite Recycling Technology Center, has partnered with 4PA to clean up and maintain the 18th St.
CRTC’s first employee, Joel Lippold, states, “The core of who we are is to make a positive impact on our environment and our community. Stewarding 18th Street is one way we can give back to our community and be the change we wish to see in the world.”
Port Angeles Salvation Army
The Composite Recycling Technology Center, formed to create products from recycled carbon fiber, developed an entirely different project that involved no carbon fiber — new cabinets for the Port Angeles Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army, which has sufficient space for a food pantry, lacked storage for other relief items. As a community service project, the CRTC teamed up with Nathan Saxe of Twisted Elm Woodworking and Julian Lamarche of Mervin Manufacturing to build and install new wood cabinets.
CRTC employees purchased wood for the new cabinets with help from Lamarche and Mervin Manufacturing, and the cabinets were constructed by Saxe.
The CRTC team then sanded, routed, installed cabinet doors, and completed the installation in the designated space.
~peninsuladailynews.com
Fremont Housing Center
Fremont, CA Housing Navigation Center uses 19 Olympus Benches from the CRTC to help fight homelessness
As part of the City of Fremont’s strategic approach to addressing the growing homeless crisis, in September 2020, the City opened a Housing Navigation Center (HNC). Located adjacent to City Hall buildings, the HNC is an innovative approach to helping those experiencing homelessness find housing while providing a clean, safe, and calm environment so participants can focus on finding stable, permanent housing.
The Housing Navigation Center is just one initiative aimed at alleviating homelessness in Fremont.
~Housing Navigation Center | City of Fremont, CA | Official Website
Shore Aquatic Center Project
The bench was launched as a part of a remodel project that was done by the Shore Aquatic Center (SAC) in Port Angeles, WA. SAC purchased over 400 lineal feet of the Trident Bench™ for crowd seating in the pool area as well as in all the locker rooms.
"The CRTC did a superb job of listening to our needs and designed and developed a bench that perfectly fit our aquatic center", said Steven Burke, Executive Director of the Shore Aquatic Center. "The carbon fiber is extremely strong and will never rot or degrade. This bench is still going to look great 10 years from now. The CRTC team was also super easy to work with, and the installation was trouble-free."
"We were honored to be selected by the Shore Aquatic Center to be a part of this amazing remodel project," said David Walter, CEO of the Composite Recycling Technology Center. "It was a fantastic project, and we are extremely excited about launching the Trident Bench™, as we believe it will be a great fit for other sports complexes and aquatic centers. Our CarbonCoat™ thermally fused polymeric coating provides the Center with a highly durable finish even in a chlorine environment. The non-porous surface is also really easy to clean, which was very important to the Center as they adhere to rigorous wipe down procedures in light of the COVID virus."
Pennies for Quarters
The Composite Recycling Technology Center and Pennies for Quarters have teamed up to build two dozen tiny homes using CRTC’s advanced cross-laminated timber system, it was announced this week.
The 24 homes for homeless veterans, ranging from 240 to 400 square feet, will be built on a 7-acre site just west of Port Angeles that Pennies for Quarters purchased last March.
“We are honored to be working with Pennies for Quarters,” said Dave Walter, CEO of the Port Angeles-based CRTC.
“This is a fantastic opportunity to assist our homeless veterans and show how an under-utilized timber species like coastal western hemlock can be combined with carbon fiber to provide an advanced building material that is very strong and durable.”
~peninsuladailynews.com
