• Initial customers were PeachTree Doors and Therma Tru Doors for door rails and subsills.

• AERT was one of the first polyethylene plastic recyclers in the U.S.
• AERT built its first plastic recycling plant in Rogers, Arkansas in 1990
• Also in 1990, AERT was featured on CNN's "Science & Technology"

• In 1992, AERT became engaged in Federal Court litigation over patent rights to its products.
• In 1998, after years of litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued to AERT U.S. Patent #5759680 entitled "Extruded Composite Profile."

• AERT continued development of composite products and in 1994, began selling decking products to Weyerhaeuser^® for resale on a regional basis.
• In 1995, AERT and Weyerhaeuser entered in to an exclusive North American marketing and sales agreement for a product to be named ChoiceDek^®.

                                                 

• In 2001, AERT and Weyerhaeuser entered in to an exclusive agreement with Lowe's^® Home Improvement Warehouse for ChoiceDek.

• In 2004, petrochemical and resin prices started to increase and over the next several years, reached record highs.

  

• This caused many manufacturers to begin incorporating cheap fillers, such as CaCO₃ in products like grocery bags, resulting in an increase in the inconsistency of the waste stream.

             

• In 2005, recycled plastic resin variations forced AERT to shift back to virgin and off-spec resin to assure product quality and integrity.  This shift affected net income in 2006, 2007, and 2008; however, product quality was maintained.

• From 2002 to 2005, ChoiceDek sales skyrocketed resulting in an average organic growth rate of 30%.

• In 2005, AERT and Weyerhaeuser were names Lowe's Vendor of the Year for Lumber.

                    

• In 2007, polyethylene recycling rates remained very low.  This created tremendous opportunity for recycling technologies.

• In 2007, patents were filed and a program was initiated with Allstate Investments to build a large, commercial scale plastic recycling, blending, and reformulation facility near Watts, Oklahoma.

The project which was completed in February, 2010:

• demonstrates a full scale, commercial plant featuring AERT’s innovative technologies and methods for recycling previously unrecovered plastic film sources from the largest segment of the plastic waste stream, polyethylene.

• utilizes a series of technologies to separate, clean, agglomerate, identify, blend, and reformulate a contaminated and highly varying polyethylene waste stream into a high quality, plastic resin or compounds suitable for use as a lower cost and less energy intensive virgin resin substitute in a wide variety of manufacturing applications.

• was the first recycling and manufacturing facility in Oklahoma to be awarded SILVER LEED certification and is a National example of U.S. Green manufacturing.

• includes building and infrastructure for 4 lines.

• significantly reduces labor cost per pound of recycled material.

•  utilizes proven equipment and AERT recycling technologies.

• incorporates features such as the recycling of stormwater and runoff back through its washing process and includes energy efficiencies from lighting to insulation to toilets.