Air Cycle Corporation History

Air Cycle was founded in 1978 and is currently based in the Chicago metropolitan area. While Air Cycle currently offers a wide range of recycling services throughout North America, we pride ourselves in our ability to engineer innovative products to help our customers. Through the years, Air Cycle has manufactured a variety of products. Products include "Automatic Air Balance System" control panels for McDonald's restaurants (found in over 3000 locations), electronic lamp ballasts for specialty markets, and advanced coffee dispensing machines. Air Cycle has always provided quality products to meet customer needs.

Through our involvement in the lighting industry, we saw a growing need for equipment to make lamp disposal easy and more efficient. Over the past few years, as legislation was being passed to reduce pollution from irresponsible lamp disposal, Air Cycle worked to design a machine to meet the needs of facilities worldwide. Our goal was to develop a machine that was safe for all facilities, regardless of size.

On March 15, 1999, our Model 55 VRS Bulb Eater™ was introduced at the National Plant Engineering Trade Show. At this show, our Bulb Eater™ was named one of the 17 "Show Stoppers" out of over 700 exhibitors! Based on this initial success and the attention garnered through a front page acknowledgement by the Wall Street Journal, we focused our energies on developing different ways to service our growing customer base. In response to customers needing to have their lamps recycled (due to new Federal and State EPA regulations) we offer a recycling program throughout North America to not only recycle crushed lamps, but also to recycle intact lamps, batteries, ballasts, and computer hardware.