Barbara J. Ehresman                                                      President

Please let me take this opportunity to introduce you to Advanced Technology Recycling (ATR). ATR is a wholly owned subsidiary of B&K Technology Solutions and is operating in the State of Illinois.  We currently offer E-Waste recycling and Asset Recovery services covering the entire State of Illinois and additionally have an office located in the southwestern corridor of Michigan.

   Our primary focus is to establish and maintain strong business relationships with small to mid size companies and provide Asset Recovery and E-Waste recycling for their IT infrastructure.  Historically, B&K Technology Solutions has operated in the IT services business since 1992 and continues to provide small to mid size companies with IT solutions that enable them to be more competitive in their respective markets.  ATR is an extension of these services and is rapidly becoming an important part in any IT manager’s portfolio.  There are thousands of companies that claim to be “asset recovery specialist”, but most operate using the common business model of accepting all their clients excess equipment, skimming the “good equipment for resale” and dumping the rest.

   We differ significantly from these companies in that we approach your IT assets in a “Repair and Remarket” approach.  What this means is that we attempt to repair any equipment that has value left in secondary markets in addition to remarketing equipment.  A majority of companies don’t repair anything. They simply test and resell.  Equipment that is non repairable or has little resell market will be environmentally processed for further refining into recycled products.  We are proud of the fact that we disassemble your products and provide detailed reports to the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) telling where your equipment was sent.  Your steel is sent to steel recyclers, plastic to plastic recyclers, monitors to monitor recyclers and so on. 

  The most common question we hear is?  “Is my equipment worth anything?”  In most cases it is.  We weigh, evaluate, and estimate the value of your equipment based on age, condition, completeness, and market demand and then credit this amount against your account.  This credit is used to offset your initial logistics and processing charge and in most cases is at least the amount of the logistics charges.  They key to recovering value from your assets is speed to market.  The longer you wait. The less it is worth. Once your equipment is picked up and inventoried, the data is transferred into our online system located at www.bktechsolutions.com, www.atrecycle.com and www.cash4computers.com.  All your data can be viewed and printed allowing you to track the equipment in process. 

  Finally, at ATR we promise to provide secure and confidential destruction of your company’s sensitive information while disposing your IT assets.  The obligation to maintain the privacy and security of personal information has reached a critical level.  Two pieces of federal legislation mandate rules about how businesses must guard information they receive from or gather about those people with whom they do business.  The privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach Blilely Act (GLBA) apply strict rules to the disclosure of information in certain industries.  They also set penalties for failure to meet their requirements and they authorize certain federal governmental agencies to enforce their provisions. 

    In closing, we hope you will consider ATR as your IT partner in the handling of E-Waste and Asset Recovery.  We are proud of our history in the IT services market and our customer retention rate of over 99%.  We’re confident given the opportunity we can help identify areas for improvement that allow you to recover more dollars on your assets while freeing you of the time, dollars, and responsibilities of E-waste thus resulting in more time spent on your core business.  Thank you in advance for your time and consideration and we look forward to hearing from you in the future.