Schupan Electronics Recycling joint venture formed

Schupan and Sons Inc., headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, has announced that its Asset Management business unit will form a joint venture with Valley City Electronic Recycling (VCER) of Grand Rapids, Michigan, called Schupan Electronics Recycling. The joint venture expands the companies’ electronics recycling and information technology asset disposition (ITAD) capabilities.

Schupan Asset Management serves schools, banks, hospitals and other businesses. In addition to sanitizing and destroying data, the company operates a large shredder through which it processes devices that contain circuit boards to recover the precious metals they contain.

VCER provides domestic recycling and reuse services for electronics, medical and industrial equipment. The company provides ITAD services to recover value from our customers’ unused assets, with nonworking and other unusable electronics being manually disassembled to achieve cleaner separation of materials and additional resource recovery value.

“By joining forces with Valley City, we are leveraging our combined expertise, expanding our geographic footprint and providing our clients with more comprehensive and efficient recycling solutions,” Schupan and Sons CEO Marc Schupan says.

“We are proud to partner with Schupan Asset Management in creation of our shared venture, Schupan Electronics Recycling,” says Jason Kehr, founder and president of Valley City Electronic Recycling. “This collaboration will allow us to enhance the services we provide and deliver even greater value to our clients.”

The VCER team, including Kehr, will join the Schupan Asset Management team. A new Wyoming, Michigan, facility will serve as a handling and staging location for materials to be transported to the joint venture’s R2v3-certified Kalamazoo operations for additional processing. The Wyoming location will offer a computer refurbishment and resale store that will be open to the public.

Schupan Electronics Recycling is committed to providing environmentally responsible and secure electronics recycling solutions. The joint venture says it will adhere to the highest industry standards, ensuring the proper handling and disposal of electronic devices.