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Business View Caribbean
58 September 2015 - Business View Caribbean
Resin Converters Limited
A man on a mission to save the environment
Christian Quesnel is a man with a very interesting prob-
lem - as well as a fierce desire to solve it. Quesnel is
the Founder and Managing Director of Resin Convert-
ers Limited, a Trinidad-based company that is a world-
class manufacturer of plastic packaging products for
the chemical, food, personal care, and pharmaceuti-
cal industries. Quesnel created Resin Converters in
2000. Today, it is the largest contract manufacturer
of HDPE plastic bottles in Trinidad. The company’s 85
employees produce a diverse range of plastic jars,
bottles, and other plastic products for large local and
international corporations.
Quesnel’s predicament is not that his business isn’t
doing well. His quandary is that the very products that
his company manufactures are the same ones that
are responsible for harming the environment he so
dearly loves. “I’m a boating person,” he explains. “I like
the sea and I didn’t like what was happening in our en-
vironment and our waterways because of the plastics
in the environment. I wanted to learn more about the
plastics industry and why they couldn’t be re-used.”
At first, Quesnel attempted to either buy into, or buy out,
a company that was already in the rigid plastic packag-
