Reconnx, Inc., a Colorado-based S corporation, was founded in 1996 with a mission to provide engineered solutions primarily for the rapidly growing construction and demolition (C&D) waste reuse industry, and more particularly, to develop tools that facilitate the reuse of lumber.  The company has established a unique niche in the specialized hand tool industry with its proprietary systems for extracting nails from used lumber. Under the registered nail kicker brand, Reconnx has a successful 5 year track record of developing and selling pneumatic denailing tools to companies that reuse lumber as an integral part of their business operations. Nail kicker tools deliver very significant productivity improvements over conventional manual nail extraction techniques, and permit the reuse of some lumber that otherwise would not be economically reusable due to the high cost of manual denailing. Industries served by Reconnx include the deconstruction industry (companies that reuse lumber from old buildings in the construction of new ones), pallet and crate recycling and concrete forming. 

The reuse of building materials is arguably one of the oldest of human practices.  The removal of veneer stones on Egyptian pyramids was perhaps a relatively recent example.  Today in the U.S., lumber is the dominant material used for home and small building construction.  As much as 11 percent of that new construction lumber ends up in landfills each year plus a far larger volume of lumber annually wasted through demolition.  The usable portion of that waste lumber, if kept intact, has a market value of hundreds of millions of dollars.  But the cost of labor for recovery is so high that simple disposal, not inexpensive in itself, has been the "common sense" choice for years.  RECONNX believes that, hidden within that industry-wide practice, an international business opportunity exists and that, given the right tools, lumber reuse will become a financially competitive alternative to disposal.

Reconnx' initial focus was not the Nail Kicker denailer but the development of a mobile end-to-end finger-jointing system to facilitate the reuse of the short sections of reusable lumber that have little value except perhaps when ground for mulch or animal bedding.  It became clear at the time through independent market research done for Reconnx, that the construction industry was being slow to incorporate used lumber products on a wide scale, and finger-jointed used lumber would have taken years and great expense to gain code agency approvals and market acceptance.  The company then targeted nail removal, another major obstacle to wide-spread lumber reuse.  As a complement to the V20 model of the Nail Kicker, Reconnx is continuing development of its patented drill attachment for removal of nails and screws.