Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronics and e-waste, announced today that Peter Prinz, one of the country’s foremost shredding engineers, has joined its staff as Project Manager and Chief Automation Engineer.
“Having Pete join our team illustrates our commitment to state-of- the-art technology for this industry,” said John S. Shegerian, ERI’s President and CEO. “Pete is known as one of the most experienced shredding engineers in the business, and will play a key leadership role in our installation of revolutionary new shredding systems, organization-wide. We are extremely proud he’s here and I’m confident his presence will help take us to yet another level.”
Earlier in his career, Prinz also served as Vice President of Operations for Recycling Industries, a scrap metal roll-up corporation in Denver. While there, he had responsibility for managing 13 scrap metal operations in 9 states.
He has also served as President of Hawco Manufacturing, a producer of large material handling buckets and grapples for the timber, scrap metal, dredging, ship loading and other industries handling large quantities of bulk material. Prinz tripled the size of the company and became the first in the industry with an ISO 9001 certification.
Prinz also designed, coordinated and patented the first successful ash recovery systems for Waste Management’s 4000 ton per day waste-to-power incinerator in Florida, a unit that is still running today. He started in the scrap metal industry with the installation and design of the first of the Super Auto shredders in 1975 for Miller Compressing and has worked for the David J. Joseph Company and Southern Holdings as a Plant Manager and Project Manager in the set up of heavy processing systems.