Metech Invests in Gilroy, Calif., Facility

Electronics recycler Metech International, based in Worcester, Mass., has purchased the electronic scrap processing plant it has been leasing in Gilroy, Calif., since 1985.

The three-acre, highly secured facility is specially designed for the recovery of precious metals from manufacturing scrap and for the demanufacturing and certified destruction of electronics systems and industrial material.

Metech also has invested $2 million to upgrade the facility, including a major expansion of its shredding, material destruction and material separation capabilities and improvements to the hazardous waste processing operations. The company has purchased and installed a new shredder from SSI Shredding Systems, Wilsonville, Ore., and has refurbished its thermal reduction unit to incase capacity and improve environmental controls, Jim Gardner, Metech business development manager, says.

Other improvements Metech has undertaken at its Gilroy facility include the addition of more loading docks, site repaving and improvements to the office areas and facility security, Gardner says.

“These upgrades improve our productivity and support our increase in business while decreasing our energy consumption and improving our environmental footprint,” Sam Advani, president and CEO of Metech, says. “This supports our goals of continuous improvement while being environmentally aware.”

Metech, which serves customers in the automotive, electronic and electrical, jewelry and metal processing industries and offers computer and cell phone recycling programs for consumer electronics, has processing plants in California, Massachusetts, Malaysia and Thailand. More information is available at www.metechgroup.com.