Engineers and Consultants
in Resource Management

INDUSTRY

RRSI clients range from large Fortune 500 size corporations to medium 
sized manufacturing firms, as well as many small independents or specialty 
processing firms. Recent RRSI industrial clients include: POSCO Steel, 
Pactiv and Linpac Paper. RRSI key staff have more than 90 years of 
engineering and manufacturing experience in recycling based industrial 
processes, and have been very involved in waste paper recycling and 
industrial processing as it relates to project process design, 
construction/installation, manufacturing operations pollution prevention
and equipment evaluations. Additionally, RRSI’s value added services for 
recycled based manufacturing projects include managed problem solving
for key peripheral issues that can impede project success, including raw 
material procurement, product marketing, business strategy, grant or loan 
capital finance assistance, and public/private partnership arrangements.

RRSI provides comprehensive resource management consulting and 
engineering services that have helped all types of industrial and corporate 
clients increase quality while lowering costs. RRSI work products and 
technical assistance provide the key to success.

Pactive Feedstock Engineering and Management

Pactiv, the former Tenneco Packaging, and their Specialty Fiber Division is the leading producer
of molded fiber packaging. Pactiv continually faces the challenge of acquiring a lower-cost source of
wastepaper fiber to meet its long-term financial goals, while preserving product quality at its six
division-wide molded pulp plants located across the United States. RRSI has a long-term relationship
providing consulting engineering services for facilities targeting virgin pulp substitution and ONP 
replacement, FDA Stewardship program development, and procurement program upgrade to improve 
feedstock quality and lower feedstock unit costs. RRSI has assisted in feedstock prep technology 
upgrades that are targeted at building in-house production capability along with assistance in
replacement of ONP through alternate wastepapers and more direct supplier relationships, pricing 
incentives and long-term partnerships all directed at overcoming historical problems with furnish 
quality and pricing. Services have included design feasibility engineering, Capital Authorization 
Request preparation, feedstock cost analysis, raw material procurement, qualifying sources for food 
contact acceptance under corporate FDA stewardship policies and recycled market pulp out-take 
contracting for excess recycled market pulp.

Industrial Dunnage Recovery

RRSI prepared a feasibility level engineering, facility design, construction monitoring and startup 
testing for this ongoing project for Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation, Pohang Plant, Korea. 
This plant, then the second largest integrated steel plant in the world, required a full-scale 
industrial recovery facility to manage its non-steel industrial dunnage waste stream.
RRSI characterized the waste stream, provided feasibility assessment services, preliminary building 
and processing equipment design drawings, process descriptions, and engineer's cost opinion for 
the equipment construction and installation. During follow-up efforts RRSI supervised facility 
construction and start-up and acceptance testing. RRSI successfully adapted US-developed 
equipment and techniques for use in this specialized setting. Cross-cultural training and the 
development of SOPs for facility use proved essential as part of this industrial recycling effort. 

• Facilities Engineering and Management
• Materials Management 
• Waste System Planning and Development 
• Operations Management Consulting and SOP Development

NICE3
National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy, Environment, and Economics - an innovative,
cost shared DOE program to promote energy efficiency, clean production, and economic
competitiveness in industry.

Biomass/Cogen
Preliminary Biomass Feedstock Assessment and Feasibility Study for a Biomass/Cogen Facility.