BROCKPORT — Sunnking, Inc., an electronics recycling firm, recently completed its move into a new, 204,000-square foot office and processing facility in its home of Brockport. The new plant is nearly double the size of Sunnking’s previous location. The company, which also has locations in Buffalo and Syracuse, has more than doubled its recycling volume […]
BROCKPORT — Sunnking, Inc., an electronics recycling firm, recently completed its move into a new, 204,000-square foot office and processing facility in its home of Brockport. The new plant is nearly double the size of Sunnking’s previous location.
The company, which also has locations in Buffalo and Syracuse, has more than doubled its recycling volume over the past five years. In 2011, the firm recycled nearly 11.4 million pounds, while in 2016 it projects it will recycle 24.7 million pounds, Melissa Richter, Sunnking’s brand and marketing manager, tells CNYBJ.
“With our growth in volume, we simply needed more room and have been looking for a larger facility for the past few years,” Sunnking CEO Duane Beckett said in a news release.
Sunnking, founded in 2000, says it specializes in collecting, refurbishing, reselling, and recycling electronic products from residential, commercial, and municipal customers.
The new facility has provided Sunnking the space needed for new processing equipment and additional labor to increase processing speeds. Since completing the move on Nov. 1, the company has hired an additional 40 employees and added a second shift to process material.
The new pieces of equipment the firm added at the plant include a heavy-duty Shred-Tech shredder used to separate and process commodities to maximize recovery. The shredder will also allow Sunnking to perform hard-drive shredding at its headquarters.The facility features 13 new offices for management and personnel and a 10,000-square-foot inventory production area for the refurbishing team. As a Microsoft-certified refurbisher, Sunnking says it is looking to continue to grow the asset management and value-added reseller segment of its business to maximize the “most efficient” form of recycling: reuse.
“We want to provide a better work environment for our current and future employees at Sunnking. I think this facility really reflects our commitment to them and the future growth of the company,” Adam Shine, VP, said in the release. “We will continue to re-invest in the business.”
Sunnking’s new facility is in the northwest corner of the Allied Business Complex at 4 Owens Road in Brockport.
Syracuse operation
Sunnking has a facility at 838 Erie Blvd. W in Syracuse that it uses as a transfer station.
“Between our business customers and collection events we have shipped over 2.5 million pounds from that facility to either our main processing facility or direct to an end market,” says Richter.
Sunnking has 10,000 square feet of flex space that it can expand out to 35,000 square feet as needed, she says. It is currently sharing up to 5 employees with the company from which it leases the space.
Richter says Sunnking acquired its Syracuse operation from Coast to Coast Recycling, Inc. in 2015, and the firm hopes to continue expanding in the market and further west.
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