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At the end of their useful life, vehicles have value as a source of spare parts and this has created a vehicle dismantling industry. The industry has various names for its business outlets including wrecking yard, auto dismantling yard, car spare parts supplier, and recently, auto or vehicle recycling. Vehicle recycling has always occurred to ...
A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish, British and New Zealand English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as ...
By 2003, the company grew to 100 locations across the country and became the first to launch a completely online auction model. Currently, [when?] Copart has more than 200 locations in 11 countries. [10] A Canada yard opening marked the first international expansion in 2003. [11] By 2007, Copart grew its footprint overseas to the United Kingdom.
In January 2003, the company acquired Pick-n-Pull, a chain of automobile scrape yards where consumers can obtain autoparts from scrapped vehicles. [11] In October 2005, it acquired GreenLeaf Auto Recyclers, [12] which was sold in 2009, [13] and Regional Recycling, a metals recycling business with 10 locations in the Southeastern United States. [14]
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LKQ wrecking yard in Texas LKQ Corporation ( “Like, Kind and Quality” ) is an American provider of alternative and speciality parts to repair and accessorize automobiles and other vehicles. LKQ has operations in North America, Europe and Taiwan.
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