ERS will be participating in the RANC Annual Meeting 2026, North Carolina's premier gathering for recycling and materials management professionals. This event brings together processors, haulers, and industry decision-makers for two days of networking, education, and industry insights.

Visit us at our exhibitor table, we would welcome the opportunity to connect with the region's recycling industry leaders.

See us there.

Trailborn Surf & Sound
275 Waynick Blvd, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480
August 27-28, 2026

Most of the rare and critical metals used in batteries and electronics — lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, rare earth elements — come from a small number of foreign countries, with global refining concentrated in just a few of them. Recycling more of these materials domestically, instead of relying on new imports, is one of the most direct ways to reduce that dependence. Every battery, circuit board, or piece of electronic scrap recovered here is material the U.S. doesn't have to import.

That domestic recycling capacity comes from two different places: mining new ore, and recovering materials already in circulation. ERS works exclusively in the second one. ERS builds recycling equipment, not mining or ore-processing equipment — the raw material ERS handles has already been used once, in a battery, a circuit board, or industrial scrap, and the job is recovering the metal from it rather than extracting it from rock.

Before that recovered metal can be refined or reused, the raw scrap first has to be broken down and separated into a clean, workable feedstock. Shredded battery packs, mixed circuit boards, and complex electronic scrap all arrive as dense, mixed material, and getting from that raw state to something a refiner can actually use is a mechanical processing problem.

That's where ERS fits. ERS designs and builds the shearing, shredding, sorting, and separation equipment that turns raw recycled material into that feedstock — including black mass recovery systems that separate copper and aluminum out of shredded EV battery material, and electronics recycling systems that recover metals from circuit boards, cables, and mixed e-waste. Researchers and startups working on new ways to recover critical metals domestically often have the extraction chemistry solved before they have the equipment to process raw material at scale — and that mechanical front end is exactly what ERS provides.

Contact ERS to talk through what a recycling line built around your material stream could look like.

ERS is adding HAKA to its shear baler lineup — a new entry-level machine built to deliver performance beyond what its category typically offers. Despite a compact, mid-sized footprint, HAKA reaches cutting forces of up to 800 tons, with a compression box up to 7000 mm and the option to configure two lid cylinders.

Structural robustness isn't optional on equipment that absorbs high stress, continuous impact, torsion, vibration, and wear every day — and HAKA holds consistent performance under that load despite its entry-level classification. Its frame is high-quality welded steel, with components joined using submerged-arc welding for uniform, fatigue-resistant weld seams, a critical detail for processing heterogeneous, demanding scrap. Every component is machined on high-precision CNC work centers, ensuring precise fits, straightforward assembly, and easy part interchangeability.

That structural approach lets HAKA process material typically reserved for higher-category machines, including steel, car bodies, pipes, beams, sheets, and mixed or bulky scrap.

HAKA is part of the TAURUS shear baler range offered by ERS. Contact ERS to learn more about HAKA and the rest of the equipment lineup.