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| Metech Recycling History Time Line  2009  Metech is merged with GRX. The new combined company is Metech Recycling. Metech Recycling renews ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certification in its California and Massachusetts recycling plants. Metech Recycling achieves ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certification in its North Carolina recycling plant. Metech Recycling invests $1 million in e-waste and monitor processing lines in North Carolina. 2008 Metech's parent company, Centillion Environment and Recycling Limited, acquires Guaranteed Recycling Xperts (GRX), a Denver, Colorado based scrap electronic equipment recycler with operations in Colorado and Utah. GRX opens a new recycling facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Metech announces the opening of a 30,000 sq. ft. electronic scrap processing facility in Durham, NC.
2007 Metech expands its West Coast (Gilroy, CA) electronic scrap and precious metals processing capability through a $2.5 million facility upgrade. Centillion Environment and Recycling Limited, a Singapore public traded company, acquires Metech. 2006 Metech renews its ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 Certification for its East Coast and West Coast facilities. Metech improves its Worcester, MA electronic scrap processing capabilities through the installation of $1.25 million processing line. Metech opens electronic scrap processing facilities in Penang, Malaysia and Bangkok, Thailand. 2005 Metech is purchased by MTI Corporation, a U.S. based private investment fund. Metech relocates East Coast operations from Rhode Island to Worcester, Mass. 2002 Trelleborg sells Metech to Viking Investment and Asset Management, a South African investing company. 2001 Metech's East Coast and West Coast operations obtain ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certification. 2000 Metech closes the South Bend, IN facility and moves operations to the existing East Coast facility in Mapleville, RI. 1997 Trelleborg completes an IPO of Boliden on the Toronto exchange, retains ownership of Metech; name changes from Boliden Metech, Inc. to Metech International, Inc. 1986 Trelleborg AB, a Stockholm listed Swedish industrial conglomerate, acquires Boliden AB. Metech acquires a South Bend, Indiana scrap recycling facility from Scandinavian Trading Corporation. 1983 to 1985 Boliden AB, a large Swedish metals and minerals company listed on the Stockholm exchange, purchases the secondary metals processing portion of RefineMet. Renamed Boliden Metech, Inc., becomes the North American secondary metals operation for the copper smelting and precious metal refining operation for Boliden, AB. Boliden Metech (Metech) forms a business division that dismantles electronic equipment for its customers. Metech purchases Applied Metallurgical Technology (AmTec) in Gilroy, CA and moves the South San Francisco, California, operation to this facility. 1980 to 1982 Purchases Wildberg Brothers, a precious metals sampler and refiner in South San Francisco, to service the growing West Coast electronics business. Name changes back to "RefineMet" and lists on the American Stock Exchange. 1975 to 1980 Expands precious metal recovery services to new industries such as chemicals, jewelry, telecommunications and the ever-expanding electronics industry. Acquires AgMet, Inc., a publicly traded company (American Stock Exchange) and sells off business units unrelated to precious metals. Changes name to "AgMet". 1970 to 1975 Expands operations to serve Northeastern industrial precious metal users, primarily in the electrical and electronics industry. Changes name to "NobleMet". 1968 Founded as "RefineMet" to service the tantalum capacitor industries by recovering and recycling tantalum anodes and silver. |
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