5R Processors Ltd., a privately owned company specializing in repairing, refurbishing and recycling electronics equipment, has opened its second facility in Tennessee. The new plant, in Clinton, Tenn., brings to eight the total number of electronics recycling facilities the company operates.
The facility began installing equipment last month. According to Don McFarland, vice president, the 65,000-square foot facility, will handle plastics, metals and glass from any type of electronic equipment.
The operation will shred and recover metals and plastics from electronics triage operations through the service region. The facility also will begin sorting plastics from the commingled electronics plastic recovery system, developed in part with assistance from te Argonne National Laboratory, as well as with information shared by Concurrent Technologies, a government defense-based operation.
While the company has begun running the equipment through its new facility, “We are tweaking the equipment right now,” McFarland notes. “We are a couple of months away from feeling good about the plastics recycling,” he adds.
At the present time the company is handling around 3,000 pounds per hour of material.
Equipment at the new location includes shredders, conveyors, magnets, granulators and de-stoners.