Situated on the east side of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, UFR Urban Forest Recyclers Inc. (UFR) rises from the prairie landscape, a sprawling green building of 130,000 square feet that transforms recycled paper into new molded fiber packaging, with egg filler flats being the highest volume product. Additional molded fiber packaging manufactured at the facility includes fruit trays, utility trays, and specialty bottle packaging.

Harvard Developments and a few other partners began the business in 1994, having purchased the plant after its original owners defaulted and ceased operations.

Today, the plant, with a staff of 40, is operating and thriving as UFR Urban Forest Recyclers Inc. It runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, stopping only for maintenance and Christmas. The finished products are shipped across North America, from Canada to Mexico, with 90% of the product being sent to customers in the U.S. UFR maintains a 40% share of the combined U.S./Canada egg filler flat market.

UFR also produces fruit trays, utility trays and specialty bottle packing.

Vast quantities of raw material are required in the production of UFR's molded fiber packaging products. For daily production, approximately 60 tons of paper, or three semi-trailers, are used. The raw material comes from many sources including the Crown Shred and Recycling in Regina, Cosmopolitan Industries in Saskatoon and numerous recycling operations throughout Western Canada.

UFR has drawn on its expertise in the manufacturing of molded pulp products to expand its product line to include building state-of-the-art molded pulp manufacturing equipment.