Colt Recycling facility receives certifications

Hudson, New Hampshire-based electronics recycler Colt Recycling LLC has received R2V3, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 45001 and ISO 14001 certifications for its San Marcos, Texas, electronics processing facility.

The facility, which Colt President and CEO Jim Maher describes as a depot-level manual dismantling warehouse operation, is the company’s first site in Texas and fourth in its portfolio. Colt was acquired by Luxembourg-based Elemental Holding Group in 2023 and expanded to Texas after evaluating Elemental’s network of operations in the U.S.

“[Elemental] had a large [site] in Texas that afforded us the ability to carve out a piece of that facility for our use,” Maher says. “We went about that last fall and started the process of getting it certified, which can be time consuming.”

The certifications were officially announced by the company at the end of July, and the process took approximately six months.

As it stands, the San Marcos facility does not shred electronics, but Maher says the goal is to bring the site up to a full shred operation in the future.

“That would probably take six months once we decide to pull the trigger,” he explains.

Colt operates facilities in New Hampshire and North Carolina, with additional materials from San Marcos shipped to North Carolina for shredding when necessary.

Maher says the Texas facility is capable of processing multiple truckloads of materials per day and is large enough to take on more space as needed. The Colt site operates within a 4,000-square-foot fenced area of a 100,000-sqaure-foot shared facility owned by Elemental Holding. Like Colt’s other locations, the San Marcos site processes a variety of electronics.

Currently, Colt Recycling is looking to continue its expansion into the Midwest and West Coast, building upon its recent expansion into Texas.