Chuck Sparks bio

Charles W. Sparks

Charles (Chuck) Sparks is the President and co-founder of Think Plastics Inc. In his more than 40 years in the plastics industry, Chuck has become known for his “hands-on” approach and his insatiable desire to experiment with new technologies and products. He spent nearly two decades working with PC, nylon, ABS, PS, PE and PP, performing colour-matching, physical testing, and extruder operation and maintenance. In the late 1970’s Chuck and several partners launched a plastic recycling operation in Cambridge, Ontario, and eventually expanded into manufacturing. In the late-1980’s Chuck founded his own extrusion equipment refurbishing company in Waterloo, Ontario, to fill a void in the North American plastics industry. For 20 years, he provided quality, customized machinery to the Canadian and U.S. markets, as well as consulting services for everything from start-up to R & D. He has worked with tire crumb and plastics, wood and plastics, and agricultural plastics deemed “not recyclable”.