Passionate about the cotton industry.
Did you know that Aussie cotton growers produce enough cotton to clothe 500 million people? Or that one 227-kilo bale can yield 765 men’s dress shirts — or 21,960 handkerchiefs?
Namoi Logistics is responsible for transporting a large percentage of Australia’s cotton bales. We also transport grain, general freight, recycled plastics — and anything that needs transporting.
From empty trucks to a recycling plant.
Namoi Logistics’ trucks are the major transporter of cotton to port — but they were returning to Narrabri empty. Dale and Helen Smith hit upon the idea of detouring them to collect plastic bottles from material recovery facilities all along the east coast, bringing the product back to Narrabri, and turning it into something useful for industry.
That reverse-logistics insight became Australian Recycled Plastics — closing the loop between freight, cotton and recycling, all from one regional base.
Part of the Smith Group of Companies.
Australian Recycled Plastics and Namoi Logistics operate side by side under the Smith Group of Companies — a family business built in, and for, regional New South Wales.
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