JB Hi-Fi Company and Business Introduction

JB Hi-Fi Limited is an Australian consumer electronics and home appliances retail company. It is publicly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Its headquarters are located in Southbank a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.

In 1974, John Barbuto (aka 'JB') established JB Hi-Fi from a tiny store in Victoria. Forty-eight years on, the JB Hi-Fi Group is one of Australasia's largest and most trusted retail brands.

In 2016, we acquired The Good Guys, a leading Australian retailer of home appliances and consumer electronics. Today almost 200 JB Hi-Fi and 100 Good Guys stores deliver an extensive range of consumer electronics, mobile devices, games and consoles, music and audio systems, home theatres, car audio, instruments, cooking appliances, and white goods from the world's leading brands.

Nowadays, the company has 316 stores across both countries, including 197 JB Hi-Fi and JB Hi-Fi Home stores in Australia, 105 Good Guys stores in Australia, and 14 JB Hi-Fi stores in New Zealand.

Why JB Hi-Fi Chooses Hydraulic Compactor from GREENMAX?

To satisfy consumers, JB HI-FI offers shipment service for home appliances and electronic devices and also collects back packaging, such as cardboard, and polystyrene foam packaging. JB HI-FI has to set up its recycling centers in warehouses in each state. 

JB HI-FI has a hot melting machine to process polystyrene foam, but because its insurance company believes that the polystyrene hot melting machine has potential safety hazards, it cannot provide corresponding insurance services. Therefore, JB HI-FI urgently needed a new solution to deal with polystyrene foam. At this time, they found GREENMAX, a company that specializes in providing polystyrene foam recycling solutions. After learning about the needs of JB HI-FI, GREENMAX provided it with EPS Compactor Apolo Series solutions, but after communication, GREENMAX Apolo Series was unable to meet the needs of JB HI-FI. GREENMAX's engineering team analyzed the needs of JB HI-FI in detail and developed a new hydraulic compactor for it. The hydraulic compactor perfectly solves the needs of JB HI-FI, which not only guarantees that the polystyrene foam can be recycled but also passes the evaluation of the insurance company.

In April 2022, JB HI-FI purchased GREENMAX hydraulic compactor, the latest polystyrene compacting technology in the world, integrating the benefits of standard polystyrene screw compactor and also hot melting machines. Equipped with high-efficient automated hydraulic system, the waste polystyrene is crushed and after that moved right into a storage bin of the GREENMAX Heracles Series polystyrene Compactor via a screw and then compressed right into dense and uniform blocks with a volume reduction proportion of 70:1, reducing the volume of waste polystyrene, as a result saving storage space and also transportation prices.

The Advantages of GREENMAX Hydraulic Compactor

GREENMAX Heracles Series Hydraulic Compactor is an EPS recycling machine specialized in compressing waste EPS packaging, EPS DUST, PU, EPP, etc. into blocks by hydraulic pressure without heating.

1. low power consumption

2. easily operation

3. high compression ratio

Recycling polystyrene not only saves JB HI-FI's storehouse space and also meets the circular economy. The brand manufacturer/owners should take responsibility for the environment. In the future, JB HI-FI would establish more and more polystyrene recycling centers to recycle more and more polystyrene. Compacted polystyrene is a very valuable recycled material, and can be used for insulation panels, shoe heels, fridge cabinets, photo frames, and construction material. The present rate is around $900 to $1000 per metric ton. INTCO Recycling is offering a total solution for recycling waste polystyrene, solving different recycling problems for clients. 

Please contact us if you have any polystyrene recycling needs.