RTW SMTAI: Harold Sneath Highlights Alpha’s Reclaims Business

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Reclamation can be a profit center, not a cost of doing business. At the recent SMTA International 2018 conference and exhibition, Harold Sneath, Eastern Regional Reclaim Manager at Alpha Assembly Solutions, lays out the reclamation services available through Alpha. He also talks about educating their customers on the value of properly collecting materials and recycling them, and how they can get a monetary return on those recycled materials.

Watch the interview here. 

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