Comstock Inc., headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada, and its Comstock Metals LLC subsidiary in Silver Springs, Nevada, have announced that significant portions of the equipment, manufactured to proprietary specifications, have arrived in Silver Springs for installation, testing and integration into the 100,000-ton-per-year solar panel recycling production line.
Commissioning will continue through March and into early April, with operations planned to begin in the second quarter of this year, the companies say.
Manufacturing of the equipment began with an engineered design process focused on durability, accuracy, speed and maximizing throughput, Comstock Metals says. Each system is modeled using advanced CAD platforms to ensure exact tolerances for shredding, conditioning and, ultimately, critical materials separation and recovery. The shredding systems are currently being assembled…