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Remanufacturing
There are many advantages in the remanufacturing of cooking appliance controls
and safeties. The most important ones are:
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Dangerous chemicals are not deposited in
landfills.
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Less volume of refuse is deposited in
landfills.
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Warranty periods meet or beat those of new
controls and safeties.
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Your company benefits from an
environment-friendly reputation.
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Your company’s costs and profits are
optimized.
The State of New York said it
best in the State Bill A10868 from May 11, 1998, which
states in no uncertain terms the benefits to New York, small businesses, the
economy, and the environment when remanufacturing is optimally utilized. Please
feel free to open and print State Bill A10868, and look
at a very important article from the New York Times.
Please note these excerpts from State Bill A10868:
Section 1: “… remanufactured products are the highest form of recycling,
the legislature finds and declares that the state should actively seek to
purchase remanufactured goods.”
Section 3.11: “Remanufactured means the process where a commodity is
restored to its original specifications and is thereby diverted from the solid
waste stream, retaining the bulk of components that have been through at least
one life cycle and replacing consumable portions to enable the item to be
restored to its original function.”
Please note these excerpts from the New York Times article:
"Once the purview of myriad small companies that eked out a living refurbishing
carburetors, printer cartridges and other used parts, remanufacturing - a
method of re-using old parts in new machines - has hit corporate America in a
big way."
"From Xerox to Saturn, from Lucent to DuPont, from Kodak to Steelcase, companies
of all types and technologies are looking to remanufacturing as a premier way to
hold costs down and keep products out of landfills. No longer happy to let their
small-company forebearers breathe new life into their discarded machines, many
are stepping up their collection methods and re-use technologies to bring older
products home."
With New York - and many other states in consideration - being strongly “on the record” about the benefits of
remanufacturing, AND mandating that remanufactured items should be used wherever
possible, Repco’s remanufactured controls and safeties are more than favorably
received in all major metropolitan areas.
For example, an MSC domestic safety is dangerous to deposit in a landfill. The
only reason for an MSC to be replaced in the field is because the diaphragm has
ruptured from constant cycling. Therefore, when it is deposited into a landfill,
it has already secreted mercury into its housing. Then, when deposited into a
landfill, it is put under additional pressure from compacting.
How many remanufacturing programs
can save you money and make you money all at the same time?
Repco will buy
many of the used cores that you may have sitting around and taking up space in
boxes and barrels. Why not send them in and turn them into money? Also, those
same cores can be sent in for rebuilding and save you 25% - 40% over the cost of
new. Not only have you improved your bottom-line - you've improved your local
environment - which translates to an improved and healthier world environment.
Several years ago Ronald J. Chandler – our Founder and CEO - was called by a
Washington, D.C. distributor to come and retrieve thirteen barrels of MSC
safeties. The distributor did not want to deposit safety cores in landfills. The distributor had
already experienced the downfall of a lawsuit from the city of Washington, D.C.
for the improper depositing of contactors from refrigerators into surrounding
landfills. This distributor knew that mercury could be much more dangerous to
the environment than the previous contactors, which contain other dangerous
chemicals on the EPA “hit list.”
All cities, towns, and even rural
areas should definitely consider REQUIRING the recycling/remanufacturing of ALL
COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC MERCURY SAFETY DEVICES.
Remember, we capture and recycle ALL MERCURY for
ALL MERCURY SAFETY DEVICES!
Finally, R.J. and I would like
to thank all of our current and prospective customers for the opportunity to
work with them in not only saving them money – but, in. safeguarding and
improving our environment, both local and global.
Please do not hesitate to call my office should you have any questions or need
additional information concerning Repco’s products and services. I look forward
to hearing from you soon.
We wish you continued success in all your personal and professional endeavors.
Best Regards,
Carla S. Chandler, MBA
President
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