Boretech Resource Recovery Engineering, LLC, a PET bottle recycling company, began operations in Taiwan in 1991. Over the past 24 years, Boretech has expanded into polyester stable fiber production, which uses recycled clean PET flake (from plastic bottles) in engineering and machine manufacturing.  The company's philosophy is that garbage generated in a particular region should be recycled into a final product to be used in that region.  

   In the United States only 28% of PET bottles are recycled with a majority of recycled garbage shipped overseas, primarily to Asian countries.   

   California, with its California Refund Value (CRV), has a leading recycling rate of approximately 65%. Because of the CRV, California's recycling centers can pay 70 cents for one pound of bottle weight (10 bottles would equal about one pound).

   The San Joaquin Partnership assisted Boretech with its location to Stockton, providing fee estimates, incentive analysis, permitting and human resource assistance. 

   Partners in this location include the City of Stockton Economic Development, Community Development and Municipal Utility departments, and Michael Goldstein, a broker with Colliers International, a San Joaquin Partnership Investor. 

    Boretech is now working with the Stockton Chamber Apprenticeship Program (SCAP), San Joaquin Delta College, and UOP for workforce recruitment.

   The  9,500 square foot Lathrop Generations Center, which debuted to the public on June 27th, features a skate park, basketball court, teen center and cafe, public library, computer lab and amphitheater.   

  The new center was seven years in the making, first envisioned by Lathrop officials in 2007. They say the final result was well worth the wait.  

  Many of the facilities at the Generations Center are for people of all ages, but one of the focal points at the site is the new teen center, funded with a $5 million grant from the State of California.  

   The San Joaquin Council of Governments (SJCOG) Board has unanimously approved the addition of the Stockton Metropolitan Airport Terminal Expansion and Modernization Project to the Measure K Expenditure Plan.   

   The Measure K Expenditure Plan is a plan that identifies the eligible projects and uses of Measure K funds, the half-cent sales tax approved by San Joaquin voters. The action recognizes the Stockton Metropolitan Airport as a regional facility where all communities in the region share in the economic benefits of the facility.

   The addition of the project to the plan is not a commitment of Measure K funds but allows the Airport to pursue funding through a Measure K Strategic Plan amendment at a future date.

SJCOG is San Joaquin County's regional transportation planning, coordinating, and financing agency and is comprised of the County of San Joaquin and the cities of Escalon, Lathrop, Lodi, Manteca, Ripon, Stockton, and Tracy.  As the local transportation authority, SJCOG oversees Measure K, the local half-cent transportation sales tax for San Joaquin County.