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About Us

About Us

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Alterra Holdings is a fast-growing compounder with a core expertise in technical plastics compounding, elastomers, and R&D. We are organized around our customers and their needs from development to production. Our state of the art production lines include twin screw extruders ranging from 16 mm, for R&D, to 103 mm, for large scale production. Our state of art polymer testing lab to ensure that we provide our customers with accurate data for R&D, and so we can adhere to strict quality control standards during production. Alterra produces specialty elastomers and bioplastics through its subsidiaries. These include: cross-linked butyl rubbers, TPVs, TPEs, and Biopolymers. We work with many biopolymers, such as BioTPEs, PLAs, PHAs, PBATs that are marine degradable and/or compostable. Our downstream capabilities include R&D, drying, sheet production, thermoforming, and injection molding. Alterra Holdings operates manufacturing facilities in Seymour, Indiana and Clifton, New Jersey, both of which are ISO 9001 certified. These facilities have over 100 million pounds of compounding capacity. With these capabilities, we are confident that we can meet your compounding needs.

ENVIRONMENT CARE

Integral aspects of Alterra Holdings’s philosophy include safety, health, environment, and quality.

Alterra Holdings is dedicated to limiting our impact on global ecological systems, and we're committed to using the most efficient methods for preserving our planet’s precious resources.

We are adamant about practicing careful and methodical chemistry in our production of bioplastics. Alterra Holdings develops and commercializes environmentally friendly plastics with the intention of slowing, reversing, and eliminating our production of greenhouse gases.

As our world faces greater environmental threats, we at Alterra Holdings believe that it's our responsibility to provide humanity with a green and sustainable products.

HISTORY

 

OUR VISION AND VALUES

We view ourselves to be more than a plastics solutions manufacturer. We are a team of men and women who take the promises we make to our customers very seriously. We understand that we have a responsibility to provide quality material to the people who use our products everyday, and we pride ourselves on that responsibility.

Integrity

We value and reward honesty, reliability, and trustworthiness in our team members, so we can count on each other and our customers can count on us.

Family

We understand that family comes first, and we recognize how challenging it is to balance work and home life. Therefore, we do our best to create a support-system among our team members so that balancing work and family is more manageable.

Customer Focus

We don't just say we put customers’ needs first, we demonstrate it daily through active listening, prompt communications, and consistent implementation of solutions.

OUR STRENGTHS

Alterra Holdings's strength is in our people and processes. We are ISO certified and we've implemented best-in-class technology to ensure high quality service and products.

A dynamic, talented, diverse, and dedicated workforce. World-class facilities producing elastomers, thermoplastics, specialty compounds, and bioplastic alternatives. The ability to customize solutions for customers through leadership in process and product technologies. Our agile organizational structure ensures that we address customer needs with speed and accuracy. A balanced geographic spread enables us to grow regionally. Our active and accomplished board of directors contribute expertise from technological, financial, Investment, automotive, industrial, and consumer products industries.