The company plans to erect two buildings totaling nearly 72,000 square feet in the Los Angeles-area city of Fontana. Arrow Recovery, headquartered in the Bay Area, purchased the property in October 2014, according to county property records.
The company is different from Arrow Value Recovery, a more prominent industry company that is part of publicly traded Arrow Electronics.
The Fontana Planning Commission on July 21 voted 3-0 to approve Arrow Recovery's permits for land development. The company must still obtain several permits and approvals from other government agencies.
One building would house the e-scrap receiving and sorting operations, and the other would house the refining functions, which include using various hazardous chemicals to extract valuable metals from e-scrap.
Dan Boronkay, a project manager at Arrow, told the Fontana commission the effort would be the company's first precious-metals refinery. He estimated the operation would employ 20 people to start.
Construction could begin in the fall and is estimated to take six months, according to a staff report from city planners.