Our team is on-site this week at the Recycling Association of North Carolina's 2026 Annual Meeting, taking place August 27-28 at Trailborn Surf & Sound in Wrightsville Beach. The event brings together processors, haulers, and industry decision-makers from across the region for two days of networking and industry insight.

Regional events like this one give processors and haulers a chance to compare notes on equipment, market conditions, and day-to-day operations in a smaller, more focused setting than the larger national shows. For ERS, these conversations usually start with a simple question: how much more value could a yard be pulling out of material it is already processing.

At our table, we are connecting with attendees about ERS metal recovery and refining solutions, engineered to help recycling operations get more value out of every load. Our systems are built around combining trim removal, dust collection, and metals recovery into a single, reliable process, so operators are not left stitching together equipment from multiple vendors. Every system is designed, built, and supported in-house, from initial engineering through ongoing parts and service.

It is a great event, a great location, and a great reminder of how connected this industry's regional network really is, even outside the big national shows. We look forward to staying part of that conversation and continuing to support RANC members in the year ahead.

Most shredder yards are sitting on a growing pile of shredder fines. It is one of the biggest sources of lost value in a recycling operation, and most systems on the market are not built to recover it. Fines keep piling up because nobody has a real process for them, and eventually they end up baled off cheap, stockpiled, or sent to landfill entirely.

The typical approach runs fines across a high-frequency eddy current separator and calls it done. That process misses roughly half the metal. It does an alright job pulling aluminum, but it leaves almost all the copper behind, and it is not running the material past any further separation. Whatever the eddy current catches is the end of the line.

ERS takes a different approach to fines processing, engineered specifically to recover what a standard eddy current pass leaves behind. Instead of one pass and done, the material goes through a full system built for this exact fraction, and what comes out is not scrap anymore, it is a real metals concentrate ready to sell.

The difference shows up in what comes out the other end. Instead of a single mixed stream from an eddy current pass, the system actually separates red metals from aluminum. That distinction matters at the smelter. Mixed metal sells for less than sorted metal, every time, and a yard that is only running an eddy current pass on its fines is leaving that difference on the table on every load.

If shredder fines are piling up in your yard with no clear plan for them, there is a better way to process that material than sending it to landfill or baling it off for next to nothing.

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

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