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Recycling Circuit Board Depopulator For Sale

Baldwinsville, NY
Depopulator

Seller Financing Available

Depopulator
Asking Price:$300,000
Established Year:2014
Inventory:$225,000
Listing ID: 2201259Listing provided by BizBuySell
BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

Circuit Board Depopulator for Refining or Reuse of Circuit Parts

We are selling the first floor model production unit (shown in attached photos), in addition to the 3D CAD drawings, rights, website, specifications to build and sell a circuit board depopulator. There is also a federal carry forward credit of ~$19k and NYS carry forward credit of ~$31k. This is in effect $50k in cash. The depopulator is an innovative, initially patented approach to the rapid removal of electronic parts from printed circuit boards without the use of chemicals. It was designed, developed, and built as a result of Phase I and Phase II SBIR awards from the EPA.
The depopulator applies infrared radiation to a circuit board to melt the solder so that the integrated circuits and other parts on the board can simply be shaken off. The key aspect of this device is its ability to automatically remove circuits without electrically damaging them. It can remove the circuits but leaves them functionally intact. This leads to two modes of operation: Refine and Reuse
In the Refine mode, the depopulator rapidly processes boards at about a 1 ton per 8-hour shift rate. Here the boards are heated as rapidly as possible for maximum throughput. This is the Refine mode, where the integrity of the parts is not important as the throughput rate because it is assumed that the parts will be shipped to a refiner for recycling precious metals recovery. Most of the precious metals lie within the circuit board components, therefore by only shipping the components, the shipping weight and smelting costs can be reduced anywhere from 5 to 7:1. Toxic fumes/pollution will correspondingly be reduced.

In the Reuse mode, the depopulator heats the boards more slowly so as to leave the parts intact functionally for recycling reuse. The throughput will not be as high, but the parts retain their functional integrity.
Additional information is available at our website: advancedrr.com
If interested, please contact the seller through the form on this page.

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS
ARR Brochure 04-29-19.pdf.pdf Download
Phase II Final Report Feb 28-2019 02-19-19 rev-2.pdf.pdf Download
Sample Depopped Boards.pdf.pdf Download
DETAILED INFORMATION
Location
Relocatable
Inventory
Included in asking price
Employees
2
Facilities
Roboshop is the manufacturer of the Depopulator and specializes in custom and standard material handling systems. Their patented vibratory designs are the basis for conveying, orientation, recirculation and accumulation ranging from very small to large materials and components.
Competition
Competing circuit board parts depopulation techniques involve the removal of parts chemically, which have issues with toxicity and cost of the chemicals, as well as their disposal. The ARR Depopulator does not use chemicals, only relatively inexpensive electricity. Other approaches to depopulation involve manual extraction of the parts, which can be quite slow compared to our Depopulator. In fact, the Depopulator can be up to 50 times faster than manual parts extraction. Another type heats the boards and shakes them off with no regard to parts viability.
Growth & Expansion
Presently much of the electronic waste is shipped to China where the circuit boards are typically smelted to recover precious metals, producing toxic fumes into the atmosphere in the process. There is legislation pending in Congress to bar such exports. In this event, the smelting would be carried out in the US. The Depopulator, by it's ability to reduce the weight of the material to be smelted up to 7:1, will help satisfying the tight controls over smelting in the US.
Financing
Cash, or 33% down with negotiable financing rates and period.
Support & Training
Training on the operation of the Depopulator will be provided.
Reason for Selling
The owners are looking to retire
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