Acme Electronics Recycling Partners with California Business

Acme Electronics Recycling, a Chicago-based electronics recycling company and business unit of Acme Refining, has partnered with James Mejia Co. in Los Angeles, Calif., to create Acme Resource Recovery (ARR).

According to a company statement, ARR will utilize advanced processing techniques and innovative equipment to consistently convert a lower-grade product (export packages) into premium U.S. mill and smelter-ready raw materials. The Los Angeles operation is expected to be duplicated in Blue Island, Ill., by late spring of 2012. An Acme spokesperson says the company is currently installing the same shredding/granulation equipment there.

James Mejia, who has 35 years of experience in process development and regulatory compliance, will serve as president and co-owner of ARR. Previously Mejia held numerous leadership roles in the environmental remediation, e-waste, scrap metal processing and manufacturing sectors. He was also co-founder, vice president and chief engineer of Los Angeles-based Electronics Partners Corporation (EPC), an electronic waste treatment organization partly funded by the state of California.

“Jim is a leader in the recycling industry,” observes Les Bury, president of Acme Electronics. “His expertise and involvement in setting standards for environmental policy coupled with his background in the responsible management and processing of scrap products of all types makes him one of the foremost industry champions. We are proud to have Jim join our Acme team.”

Acme Resource Recovery operates in a 60,000-square-foot recycling/processing facility with a monthly capacity of up to 6 million pounds of non-ferrous metals in addition to clean steel shred and plastic output.

“I am very excited about JMC becoming part of the Acme family of companies,” Mejia says. “Our green mechanical scrap process and recycling model applies to many industrial, commercial and post-consumer sectors that are seeking responsible domestic, sustainable, transparent recycling procedures. Our process service offerings are targeted especially at those players who require professionally documented recycling services that will meet U.S. regulatory statutes and/or policy compliance standards.”