IKO Announces Full Commissioning of Ontario-Based Asphalt Shingle Recycling Line
The facility is among the first in North America to achieve true circularity
In honor of Earth Day, IKO announced the full commissioning of its Asphalt Shingle Recycling line in Hawkesbury, Ontario. The company also recently began the pilot phase of a TPO recycling line in its Hagerstown, Md. plant that opened in 2022.
According to IKO, the Hawkesbury location, one of its eight modern shingle manufacturing plants, is among the first shingle plants in the world to graduate from its pilot phase into daily production. Planning for the two-story 28,000-square-foot Recycled Asphalt Shingles [RAS] facility began in late 2019. After several pandemic related delays, the project broke ground in 2021 and was constructed in phases until completion in fall of 2022. It became fully operational during the winter of 2022-23.