FREMONT, CA - AER Worldwide has moved its corporate headquarters to Fremont, CA, to expand opportunities for customers to leverage the company’s electronic component and asset recovery services. AER Worldwide provides environmental protection through proper teardown, recycling, and reuse of excess electronic waste-stream materials for electronic original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract manufacturers (CMs), and original design manufacturers (ODMs). Its electronic component redistribution and electronic waste-stream recycling services help companies maximize asset recovery from electronic components and assemblies and eliminate downstream environmental liabilities.
AER Worldwide’s new Fremont headquarters is a 75,000 sq-ft. facility with 70 employees. Its electronic waste-stream recycling business provides close-to-source material sorting and destruction services, eliminating unnecessary shipping costs of low-value, highly recyclable materials such as steel, base metals, paper, and cardboard. AER provides certified destruction and online viewing and reporting, which enables companies to track their waste and monitor their excess inventory.
AER tracks, audits, and reports the customer’s downstream material flows to ensure that materials bearing lead, batteries, and copper, such as printed-circuit-board assemblies, AC adapters, and power supplies, are only shipped to pre-audited, ISO-14001-compliant facilities, eliminating the risk of corporate liabilities that can occur through non-certified operations.
As part of the component recovery and redistribution business, the new Fremont warehouse now stocks and redistributes more than 120 million electronic parts, or about 85,000 line items from major manufacturers.
“AER Worldwide’s customers in the Silicon Valley are some of the most advanced and innovative in the area of environmental compliance,” AER’s president Andre Weiglein remarked. “As many companies and a growing number of the legislators across the globe-and the general public-are concluding, the electronic industry must take responsibility for serious environmental impacts that negatively affect the quality of life for us all. Under many of these laws, environmental responsibility does not end when the material is destroyed. With California’s pending legislation and environmental compliance requirements being driven by the European Union, the circle of companies that are being forced to deal responsibly with their excess electronic components and equipment is growing. We provide services to support e-waste end-of-life processes-and document those processes-to maximize economic return and prove compliance. Moving to this location puts us closer to these leading-edge customers, making it easier for them to witness destruction of their proprietary materials and equipment.”
