CSI Leasing, a global firm that owns recycling and electronics processing facilities throughout the world including EPC, has increased its stake in TRY Corporation, an ITAD operation near Tokyo.
The owner of EPC purchased an ITAD company in Malaysia to expand its capacity in Asia by 15,000 assets annually and take on more medium and large enterprise contracts.
Last week's Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Convention put a focus on two issues critical to the global side of the sector: the state of recycling in China and efforts to enhance shipping protocols.
Metals producer Mitsubishi Materials purchased a stake in a startup working to build a smelter in Indiana. Meanwhile, the company unveiled plans to substantially increase e-scrap recycling capacity at its Japanese smelters.
E-scrap company eGreen IT Solutions lost its e-Stewards certification after a Basel Action Network investigation tracked two printers overseas to the Philippines and Malaysia.
Mobile phone buyers in Japan will help finance African e-scrap collection and recycling, under a new partnership between FCNT/Fujitsu and Dutch company Closing the Loop.
Metals giant Korea Zinc is set to control e-scrap recycling and secondary processing operations in the U.S. and Europe, striking a $332 million deal to acquire a majority stake in Igneo Technologies.