First Appliance Recycling Facility in Bulgaria Opens

Nadin Jsc has opened the first factory in Bulgaria to handle and recycle obsolete appliances. The company, which spent roughly $25.7 million on the facility, claims that the plant is the largest and most modern of its kind in Eastern Europe. It was opened in Novi Iskar near Sofia, which is the capital of Bulgaria.

The facility has a contract with the city of Sofia to handle the appliances collected by city residents.

The company is using technology developed in Germany to allow the company to recycle the appliances in one building. The plant has two conveyor lines – one for refrigerators and one for television sets and computer monitors. It can also recycle kitchen appliances, computers, printers, medical equipment, electric tools and toys.

Nadin, headquartered in Sofia, starting operating in 1991. The company’s main activity is collecting, using and trade of scrap of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

During the grand opening, held in late June, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov noted that another company had begun construction on a battery recycling facility in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.