Electronic Recyclers of America, HMR Join Forces

California-based Electronic Recyclers of America (ERA) has entered into a joint venture partnership with HMR, an Australia-based provider of surplus asset chain management services with its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco.

A press release from ERA states that the companies “have come together to provide greater capabilities and an array of services to accommodate the quickly blossoming electronic waste recycling industry.”

As part of the agreement, ERA will serve as HMR’s exclusive downstream processor for devices containing cathode ray tubes, such as televisions and computer monitors, while HMR will remarket ERA’s usable equipment. The agreement also provides ERA with access to HMR’s fleet of trucks and logistics services.

"We are extremely proud to have entered into this relationship with HMR,” John S. Shegerian, ERA’s president and CEO, says. “We will be working together on projects aimed at making the recycling of electronic waste environmentally responsible and accessible to more Californians while referring business to one another. By combining our CRT crushers under one roof, at the ERA warehouse, we have brought to bear a situation where we effectively house three-fourths of the crushers in California. HMR’s team of account executives in Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with our own reps, will be aggressively marketing our combined services.”

John Bekiaris, CEP of HMR USA, says, "The most effective way to manage obsolete equipment is to either re-purpose it or recycle it. Our focus on providing the most environmentally friendly process possible is what has led us to this relationship with ERA, who holds philosophies that are very much on the same page as our own.”