Electronic Recyclers International (ERI) has grown its Holliston, Mass., facility by 25 percent to meet the demand of the electronic recycling and urban mining markets.
The Fresno, Calif.-based recycler said its 89 Cross St. site, which has 116 employees, is now 125,000 square feet, and through its lease from Avery Products Corp., it has the right to expand to 150,000 square feet in coming years.
“This new space will enable us to further grow our rapidly expanding asset management department, and add a larger ‘clean room’ for high tech refurbishments and other asset management operations,” said John Shegerian, chairman and CEO of ERI, in a statement.
The privately-held company was founded in 2002 as Computer Recyclers of America LLC and changed its name in 2005. It now has seven locations throughout the U.S., says it can service all 50 states, and that it de-manufactures and recycles more than 250 million pounds of electronic waste annually.
The U.S. electronics recycling industry grown to $20.6 billion from less than $1 billion in 2002, and employs more than 45,000 full time employees, up from 6,000 in 2002, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc.
In September, ERI plans to open a new 81,000-square-foot site in Aurora, Colo., which more than doubles the size of its existing Denver site.
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