May, 2007

The Norman Transcript.com

Chicago Heights recycler reverses manufacturing

Fresh on the heels of the local recycling victory, we were intrigued by story out of Chicago where a recycler of unimagined scope sets up shop.

In Chicago Heights, Brian Brundage's Intercon Solutions takes outdated computers, calculators, copy machines, TVs, cell phones and other of today's conveniences, and disassembles them down to the base components and sends them off to be smelted and reused.

His 250,000-square-foot facility employs 15 and gets most of its "raw material" from manufacturers.

It's manufacturing turned upside down, kind of a reverse osmosis of the industrial age.

You know, that process could have been what many of us aspired to as kids, when dad gave us that transistor radio, TV or burned out electric motor. The first order of business? Get a hammer and "take it apart."

We're sure Intercon's process is more sophisticated, and you'll probably never get rich working there. But for a whole generation of kids, a job just taking things apart would have been a dream come true.

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