Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials is planning to invest over $100 million to boost its global e-scrap processing footprint.
Bobby Elliott is the editor at large at Resource Recycling. He has been with the company since 2013 and has reported extensively on the e-scrap industry, including CRT glass recycling, state electronics recycling programs and flat panel display processing. He can be reached at [email protected]Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials is planning to invest over $100 million to boost its global e-scrap processing footprint.
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