Digital Information Security

Singapore Electronics Recycler Buys MaSeR

Cimelia Resource Recovery PTE Ltd., a Singapore-based electronics recycling and processing company, has purchased MaSer Corp., an electronics recycling firm headquartered in Barrie, Ontario. (For a profile of MaSer, see "System Upgrade" in the October 2005 issue of Recycling Today, SDB’s sister publication.)

MaSer, which had felt the adverse effect of the sharp drop in secondary commodity prices, had shuttered its operations earlier this spring.

According to Lauren Roman, who was executive vice president of MaSeR, while the company had made significant strides in its research and development to capitalize on the growing supply of electronic scrap, the collapse in prices resulted in MaSeR’s investor exiting the business.

According to Roman, MaSeR was sold to Cimelia May 15. The Singapore firm says its goal is focused on developing a business plan to best use MaSeR’s assets in a way that is consistent with the company’s global strategy.

South Carolina has awarded its electronic equipment recycling contract to Creative Recycling Systems (CRS), Tampa, Fla.

Under the terms of the contract, CRS will provide state agencies, counties, municipalities, school boards and other state entities with recycling services for end-of-life electronics.

"The entire Creative team is excited about this new partnership with South Carolina," says Jon Yob, CEO and president of CRS. "We utilize the best available technology to process end-of-life electronics. Our state-of-the-art CRT (cathode ray tube) processing technology and automated e-scrap processing systems provide our customers with true environmental solutions."

Electronics collected from South Carolina will be processed at CRS’s newly opened Mid-Atlantic processing facility in Morrisville, N.C.

In addition to the North Carolina plant, CRS has facilities in Tampa, Miami and Tallahassee, Fla.; Atlanta; Nashville, Tenn.; and Louisville, Ky.

Data Killers, a division of Turtle Wings Electronics Recycling, Capitol Heights, Md., has been awarded a one-year contract by the U.S. Census Bureau to perform on-site data destruction services at all U.S. Census Bureau sites throughout the greater Washington, D.C., Baltimore and northern Virginia area. The contract covers on-site shredding of all media types, including hard drives, backup tapes, CDs and other types of magnetic media.

"The Census Bureau collects a lot of information," Rodney Young, Data Killers operations manager, says. "They wanted to be sure that all that information was safely destroyed on their premises when it was no longer needed."

He adds, "We have the NSA- (National Security Agency-) approved equipment for all types of media destruction including classified materials."