Startech Awarded Contract to Demonstrate Procedure

Startech Environmental Corp., based in Wilton, Conn., has been awarded a contract by Concurrent Technologies Corp. to demonstrate the ability of the Plasma Converter System to irreversibly destroy electronic scrap.

The contract, awarded as part of the Demanufacturing of Electronic Equipment for Reuse and Recycling program, is valued at $70,000.

CTC is a government contractor that operates the National Defense Center for Environmental Excellence. The NDCEE was created for the development, application and dissemination of advanced environmental technologies. The DEER2 program is a task under the NDCEE contract.

According to the company, the demonstration program will test the ability of Startech's Plasma Converter System to economically dispose of, and convert, electronic scrap into a useable synthesis gas and inert melt using a single step process. The test will be conducted over the next few months at Startech’s Engineering, Research and Demonstration Center in Bristol, Conn.

The contract will result in CTC shipping an indeterminate number of outdated electronics equipment to the Wilton research and development facility where the plasma work will be conducted.

A spokesman for Startech said that the contract is the beginning of a process whereby Startech can start providing the plasma technology to the electronics scrap that has been growing in volume.