We Recycle Solar announced it would establish a solar panel recycling and critical material recovery facility in Texas with a scheduled launch in Q3 2027.
The company claims that the plant will recover up to 96% of the silver, copper, silicon, aluminum and glass contained in end-of-life solar panels, and produce clean, market-ready critical materials for direct resale through a fully-domestic process, with zero offshore processing.
“Solar panels contain the exact critical materials the U.S. supply chain desperately needs, but until now, no American company has been able to recover their full resources at such scale or efficiency,” said Adam Saghei, founder and CEO of We Recycle Solar. “Through our advanced process, we are achieving true, comprehensive material recovery entirely on U.S. soil, and retaining these critical materials — and the value currently being lost to Asian processing — within our domestic supply chain.”
Set on a 10-acre company campus outside Dallas, Texas the new WRS plant will mark the first in the company’s planned network of critical material recovery facilities. Within the next four years, WRS plans to invest an estimated $100 million to develop four additional locations across the United States, building a distributed network of domestic processing centers designed to reduce logistics costs and better serve commercial and utility-scale asset owners nationwide…