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Intercon solutions adds plant.


Intercon Solutions, an ISO (1) See ISO speed.

(2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI.
 14001-certified electronics recycler, has expanded, relocating its headquarters to Chicago Heights Chicago Heights, city (1990 pop. 33,072), Cook co., NE Ill., S of Chicago; settled in the 1830s, inc. as a city 1901. It is an industrial community where steel, transportation equipment, metal products, tiles, and chemicals are manufactured. Prairie State College is there. .

Company CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Brian Brundage says Intercon will continue to process electronics at its 125,000-square-foot Chicago plant until the new facility has an ISO14001-compliant environmental management system in place.

Eventually, all demanufacturing will be handled in the company's new 300,000-square-foot Chicago Heights plant.

Brundage says that Intercon does not resell re·sell  
tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells
1. To sell again.

2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer.
 any components. "We feel that it truly makes us unique and adds a large amount of extra security to our process for clients that are more concerned with environmental liability and making sure that all of their equipment is actually accounted for," he says.

"With our industry growing as fast as it is, this new facility was a must to handle electronics that need to be properly recycled," Intercon Corporate Recycling Coordinator Timothy Osgood says.

In addition to its Chicago locations, Intercon operates aggregation warehouses in St. Louis; Concorde, N.C.; Dallas; Vancouver; Toronto; and Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. , Ontario.
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Title Annotation:ELECTRONICS RECYCLING; buildings and facilities of Intercon Solutions
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U3IL
Date:Jun 1, 2005
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