A 2-year-old startup company here is joining the state’s expanding recycling industry and simultaneously helping to rebuild a former mill town belted by a dying business and a staggering railroad accident a decade ago.
The company, Recleim, has invested $40.6 million to convert a once-vacant cotton mill to a first-of-its-kind recovery facility in North America. The recycling plant that opened Friday is expected eventually to provide about 200 jobs to the Graniteville area.