The 131,000-square-foot space that had been leased by Closed Loop at 2200 Fairwood Ave. was cleaned up as of July 14, 2021. | Courtesy of Ensafe’s closure report.
On the final day of 2021, a judge approved Kuusakoski’s $6 million legal settlement with Ohio warehouse owners, marking a major milestone in the years-long Closed Loop CRT cleanup case.
The collaboration will take advantage of the two companies’ large global footprint. | Courtesy of evTerra
Procurri, which offers tech solutions to customers globally, has partnered with Igneo Technologies for e-scrap recycling.
Following a large acquisition and facing a management shakeup, Iron Mountain’s ITAD arm is posting growing revenues. | Bandersnatch/Shutterstock
Data management giant Iron Mountain saw a $213 million bump in its revenue last year because of its acquisition of ITRenew.
Big moves are taking place in the arena of lithium-ion recycling. | Courtesy of Tevva Media
In recent weeks, Li-Cycle received federal funding for a facility, AquaMetals announced a technology breakthrough and Ecobat shared its plans to build a facility in Arizona.
Major smelting companies discussed changing metals prices and cost inflation in recent filings. | Gualtiero Boffi/Shutterstock
Glencore, Umicore and Boliden recently released financial and operational details from their smelting operations in 2022.
FPD Recycling has sued to invalidate a patent licensed to Votechnik for a flat-panel dismantling robot. | PaeGAG/Shutterstock
A company commercializing its flat-panel device dismantling system in the U.S. has gone to court seeking to invalidate a competitor’s patent.
A Sims Lifecycle Services financial presentation attributes reduced resale prices to lockdowns in China and muffled consumer demand stemming from inflation. | antb/Shutterstock
Sims Lifecycle Services resold considerably more IT devices in the latter half of 2022, but softer demand resulted in lower selling prices and inflation took its toll on profits. Continue Reading
Maryland-based Apkudo boosts supply chain efficiency to support repair, resale and recycling markets. | KovalchukOleksandr/Shutterstock
Apkudo, which helps companies manage connected devices, announced it received $37.5 million in Series C funding.
A worker inspects shredded material at a Glencore sampling facility in Rhode Island. | Courtesy of Glencore
Glencore has been recovering copper and precious metals from e-scrap since the 1980s. But multiple trends are now forcing the world’s largest mining and metals company to adapt to changing markets: a push to decarbonize the transportation sector, efforts to shorten and bolster supply chains, and innovations in consumer electronics design and manufacturing.
Cleanup of CRT materials at Closed Loop’s Phoenix sites is estimated to cost $15 million or more. | E-Scrap News File Photo
IMS Electronics Recycling will pay $5 million to help clean up CRT materials abandoned at former Closed Loop Refining and Recovery sites in Phoenix.