ABPA's The Bumper Recycling Division

This project arose from the Bumper Recycling Forum, April 24, 2009.

Check out this informational presentation from Bumpers Plus.
Click here to download (2.9MB .PDF)

Application for Bumper Recyclers Membership
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CHARLOTTE--When Richard Marencin, owner of Bumpers Plus, stepped
forth to voluntarily lead with the formation of ABPA’s new Bumpers
Recycler Division (BRD), it was only a continuation of a service
career which began a half dozen years ago, in 2003.
That’s when the 52 year old Marencin, who holds a masters degree in
business from Georgia’s Emory University, left his position as a
computer company division vice president--with responsibilities for
more than $22 million in sales and a staff of 200 in 14 states--to
write his own ticket.
He purchased Bumpers Plus which was started in 1997 in Marietta,
GA., a suburb of Atlanta, and which with a staff of two covered a
small local market.
Under Marencin’s direction, the company has grown eight-fold and
now has 16 full time employees and utilizes third party delivery
companies to serve remote customers--more than 400--throughout
Georgia and South Carolina.
Bumpers Plus now produces and delivers more than 100 bumpers weekly
and as a recycling company, picked up and kept in the recycling
circle 12,000 discarded plastic bumpers from body shops in 2008.
Marencin figures that his company kept more than 47 tons of plastic
from going to the landfills.
Marencin’s business philosophy is simple: deliver the best quality
plus the best service. Focused on only reconditioning OEM plastic
bumpers, Bumpers Plus is considered by its customers the be the
number one rated reconditioning company in Georgia and South Carolina.
While Marencin recognizes that the management of an independent
automotive service-oriented business can be unique, he still relies
upon his varied professional background experiences gained in both
education and the work place.
This includes a variety of management positions with AT&T, IBM and
Computer Associates. As a management consultant with IBM he was able
to leverage his business experience and MBA from Emory University to
help medium sized companies address strategy, process and
organizational issues to improve their business performance.
Marencin's focus on customers and employees lead him to the
challenge of building a business like Bumpers Plus where,
capitalizing on his knowledge, he continues to navigate his company
through a period of rapid growth and change while satisfying its many
customers.
Marencin is a strong proponent of recycling and sharing best
practices, believing that a solid, professional, efficient and
ethical industry benefits all participants.
The Charlotte seminar was, in fact, the third which he attended
having registered in both Nashville, in 2006, and Ft. Lauderdale in
2007. Now that he is getting to know more people, he might even
bring his wife Jan--they have two daughters Nancy and Jennifer--to
future meetings.
He looks forward to the Indianapolis meeting and believes that the
new ABPA division is now best positioned to bring together those
companies, and individuals, dedicated to urethane and plastic bumper
recycling. Through shared experiences, Marencin knows that others can
also gain the greatest benefits in their individual operations.
Said the Georgia bumper recycler, “Every year in which I attended
one of these seminars, I came away with valuable information which
has helped my business. There is nothing better that any of us can
do than share our experiences in a formalized setting so that even
the smallest among us can grow our companies. Our new division
should help us meet these goals.”
Richard Marencin can be reached at 770-422-7587 or via e-mail:
richardm@bumpersplus.com. ABPA is also restructuring a portion of
its main web site--www.autobpa.com--to reflect the activities of this
new division