A recent bankruptcy petition and lawsuit from investors highlight the continuing troubles facing closed e-scrap company Diversified Recycling.
A recent bankruptcy petition and lawsuit from investors highlight the continuing troubles facing closed e-scrap company Diversified Recycling.
New York’s Tekserve shut down this week after 29 years in business. The company was done in by sustained competition from Apple, the very brand that was central to Tekserve’s business model.
Sims Metal Management’s global e-scrap business saw depressed profits last year, and its U.S.-based electronics recycling operations lost money.
E-scrap processing company Regency Technologies has closed its CRT dismantling operation. At the same time, it has opened two electronics recycling facilities in the Southeast.
Schupan Electronics Recycling, a division of Schupan & Sons, Inc., is growing its processing line and has its eye on even more growth in the future.
By the end of 2016, IMS Electronics Recycling will cut in half the number of processing facilities it operates.
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Whenever Apple indicates a new product release, device-recovery firms join in on the wider consumer market chatter. But in the runup to this fall’s release of the next iPhone, the recycling and repair buzz – and anxiety – is even more charged than normal.
More details have emerged on PC Rebuilders & Recyclers’ bankruptcy case after a summary of the company’s assets and debts was filed in Illinois bankruptcy court this week.
Samsung has recalled 2.5 million of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones due to a potentially dangerous problem that has caused some of the phones to explode. While this is definitely a problem for Samsung, it’s also a problem for the e-scrap processors who might be responsible for handling the phones.