E-voting machines help firm to €1m earnings
Managing director KMK Metals, Kurk Kyck, confirmed yesterday that the company’s work on shredding the State’s 7,600 e-voting machines produced a profit for the firm, contributing to earnings of more than e1 million for the company last year.
Mr Kyck said: “The e-voting machine work was very much profitable for us, but I would prefer not to say how much.”
In June of last year, KMK Metals Recycling Ltd won the tender for the machines when it signed a contract with the Dept of the Environment to dismantle and recycle the machines after agreeing to pay the State €70,267.
In the tendering for the works, four of the six unsuccessful tenders demanded monies from the State to dispose of the machines with one unidentified firm demanding €351,648 in fees to take the machines, while a second sought €181,701.
KMK — which employs 75 people — employed seven staff on the project to disassemble the machines.
The firm had a ready market for the shredded metal and plastic from the machines and Mr Kyck confirmed yesterday that no e-voting machines remain from the process.
He said: “They have all been shredded.”
