EPC relocates to 104,000-square-foot-facility

St. Charles, Missouri-based EPC, a company that provides asset recovery services for used information technology (IT) and electronic equipment, has moved into a larger, state-of-art facility in Wright City, Missouri. The $5 million facility is 104,000 square feet and replaces the company’s 65,000-square-foot recycling operation in Earth City, Missouri. EPC says it anticipates its business volume to increase by 20 percent initially, with additional growth anticipated.

“The leadership in Wright City embraced our vision for the new recycling facility,” says Dan Fuller, president of EPC. “They listened to our needs and helped us find the right location that would meet our current requirements and allow for future growth. They were also instrumental in working with our employees to help them relocate into the area.”

EPC’s Wright City recycling facility features a $1.7 million “magnetic optical sorter shredding machine” that includes smart technology, automating the process of sorting and decommissioning computer equipment and eliminating the human risk associated with decommissioning, the company says. The sorter also has the capabilities to learn processes, and improve performance based on logging previous mistakes to avoid making them again.

“Large corporations take the decommissioning of their IT equipment very seriously, and rightfully so,” Fuller says. “It’s our job to help ensure that this process is handled properly. That’s why it was important for us to build one of the most advanced facilities in the United States, with processes, technology and certifications to give our clients, especially data-sensitive organizations, the confidence to know that the job is being done properly.”

The new facility currently employs 70 people, with plans to grow by an additional 20 employees in the next 12 months, EPC says.

Banze Construction was the design-build contractor. The project was self-funded through operations and its parent company, CSI Leasing, St. Louis.

EPC is AAA Certified by the Phoenix-based National Association for Information Destruction (NAID). It also is certified to the e-Stewards Standard developed by the Basel Action Network (BAN), Seattle.