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MBA Polymers plans to start processing e-scrap devices at the new facility in 2020. | PIYAWAT WONGOPASS/Shutterstock
Global plastics recycling company MBA Polymers will open a facility in Germany to recover e-plastics from electronics and appliances.
Independent repair firms will soon be able to more easily tackle Apple devices. | Kevin Khoo/Shutterstock
Apple will make official repair resources for common out-of-warranty iPhone repairs available to a larger number of independent repair shops.
Sycamore International of West Grove, Pa. has achieved R2:2013 certification.
Additionally, the companies below have either achieved or renewed one or more of the following NAID AAA certification destruction services: physical destruction of hard drives, physical destruction of solid state devices, over-writing of physical hard drives, over-writing of solid state devices or degaussing.
Castaway Technologies of Methuen, Mass.; Rock Solid Shredding of Little Rock, Ark.; Katana SA of Geneva and Shred-IT USA of Hattiesburg, Miss.
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At maximum capacity, SMR’s Dallas plant can handle up to 4 million pounds per month. | vladdon/Shutterstock
SMR Worldwide has opened its third processing site, the first of several additional locations slated to come on-line in the next few years.
Recycling of rare earth metals has drawn greater attention in the e-scrap industry in recent years. | stuphipps/Shutterstock
European Union grant money will fund a rare earth metals recycling project in the U.K. The planned pilot facility will target magnets found in hard drives and other devices.
Industrial Services of America (ISA) plans to sell substantially all of its assets to River Metals Recycling LLC. | YuRi Photolife/Shutterstock
Industrial Services of America, located in Kentucky and Indiana, is being acquired by a regional competitor after a period of financial struggle.
IRT is expanding and moving into this 230,000-square-foot building in St. Cloud, Minn. | Courtesy of IRT.
IRT is moving into a facility more than five times the size of the company’s current Minnesota site as its business model evolves.
Nextuse of Dover, N.H. achieved NAID certification for hard drive sanitization and degaussing and hard drive destruction.
R4 Services of Chicago achieved NAID certification for hard drive and SSD destruction.
Security Operations Group-International (SOG-I) of San Antonio achieved NAID certification for hard drive destruction.
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Grant money will fund a portable hard drive shredder for Comprenew’s U.P. location in Marquette, Mich. | Courtesy of Comprenew.
The state of Michigan will help fund the expansion of e-scrap collections in the Upper Peninsula, a broad area where dumping of used electronics has been a problem.