Bead Electronics, an interconnect pin manufacturer in Milford, CT is offering their customers the option to recycle the materials used for packaging their products.  Bead’s popular Tandem Pin® brand of continuous reeled interconnect pins are sold on large plastic reels. The reels protect the delicate contacts during shipping and facilitate automatic insertion of the pins into customers' PCBs.

The reels are 24 inches in diameter, contain almost two pounds of virgin plastic and are costly to produce.  "Empty reels were simply discarded", Bead's president, Ron Andreoli, said.  "Now we're offering our customers a discount to put the reels back into our original shipping cartons and send them back to us.  Bead pays the freight, our customers save money, dumpsters don't get clogged with bulky plastic, and we purchase less packaging. Everyone wins."

Bead Electronics is no stranger to eco-friendly practices. Bead uses a unique metal forming process called swaging to produce almost one million interconnect pins each day. The swaging process, which competes with more common metal forming processes like stamping and screw machining, is virtually scrap-free, reducing customer’s costs and its carbon footprint.

Read the full press release here.

About Bead Electronics

Bead Electronics, is a global manufacturer of electronic connector pins and has been manufacturing in Connecticut for over 100 years. The award-winning company carries over 500 patents and is best known for inventing its manufacturing process called swaging. This process is a high-speed, virtually scrap-less, cold-forming process capable of producing a wide size range of metal electronic components that are consistent and cost-effective. The family-owned business is led by its fifth generation. Click here to speak to a connector pin specialist today.