The Company

Albert Europe is an Italian company that works in the recycling and reclamation business since 1999. During this time, Albert Europe has updated its operation to stay ahead of ever-changing technologies and environmental regulations,  according to the so called Decreto Ronchi stated by the Italian Government on 1997..

With the growth of the electronics industry as well as the introduction of the computer, the volume and complexity of electronics has increased significantly. The more recent explosive growth of the personal computer and related chip technology spawned a secondary market for resalable and reusable circuit chips. In anticipation of this trend, Albert Europe was established to recover and resell usable chips. As a consequence of this growth, environmental regulations continue to become stricter for both the manufacturer, as well as the user and recycler. 

Many large corporate users are also taking an environmentally proactive role in the disposition of their company's physical assets. We believe that environmental scrutiny will continue to grow and will eventually mirror and exceed many of the more restrictive regulations now in force in other countries. We also believe that this regulatory concept may also be extended in one form or another to consumers. In addition, as manufacturers continually become more efficient, they have recognized the need and merits of managing their excess assets and obsolete products. In anticipation of these trends, Albert Europe was established. A complete and total circle of recycling is achieved thank to others associated companies, which results in better returns to our customers with complete and uniform environmental integrity and control. 

Albert Europe is the starting point along the asset recovery pipeline. Upon receipt, material is weighed and logged for control purposes, and is then evaluated for its best path of recovery. This evaluation will take into account the best method to maximize recovered value, and will also consider the customer's desire to have equipment or components destroyed rather than remarketed.

 Initial disassembling is then completed and any material that contains integrated circuits is processed for recovery. The remaining material is then further evaluated for recovery. Items such as computers, telephone equipment, test equipment, monitors, memories, that can be sold for its original intended use is identified and marketed. Non-working or non-repairable equipment is evaluated for its component parts such as hard drives, cooling fans, keyboards, mice, monitors, casters, etc. and the individual component material is marketed. Remaining material is further de-manufactured into its lowest marketable level (e.g.-base metals, plastics, cardboard, etc) and is sold into commodity markets. Ultimately, the results from all the recovery streams are summarized and issued in an easy to read settlement statement to our customers.