Sage Sustainable Electronics' 2026 benchmarking report reveals a secondary IT market in transition, driven by artificial intelligence infrastructure demand and constrained semiconductor supply chains. Server resale values have reached historic highs—approximately 2.5...
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Takeways: Mitsubishi Materials investment in Elemental’s US e-scrap platform
Recent announcements indicate that Mitsubishi Materials has agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in Elemental Group’s US e-waste platform, which operates through Colt Recycling. The transaction reflects a broader trend in which large metals and materials groups are seeking closer integration with upstream electronics recycling and pre-processing operations as part of their circular-economy strategies. A more detailed assessment of the strategic implications, execution risks, and what this transaction signals for the evolving relationship between IT asset disposition and metals recovery is available to subscribers.
Where to Invest in Future Decommissioning Corridors: The Geographic and Utility Forces Reshaping U.S. Data Centers
The U.S. data center landscape is shifting from a historically concentrated model anchored in Northern Virginia toward a multi-regional grid of hyperscale, AI-compute, and colocation campuses extending across the Midwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Mountain West. This...
Case Study: Close the Loop’s FY25 Loss Highlights the Danger of Chasing Volume Over Value in ITAD
Case Background Close the Loop Limited (ASX: CLG) is an Australia-headquartered circular economy company with...
What is Google telling us about the secondary market for IT and electronics?
Are OEMs looking to tighten control over the secondary market? The secondary market for IT and electronics is rapidly...
How acquisitions are fueling ITAD sector activity
By David Daoud: Over the past months, there has been a resurgence of activity fueling investments into the end of...
More than half of US enterprises don’t track their laptops, as 22% of the retired assets are missing
Compliance has been a key requirement driving enterprise IT asset disposition (ITAD), and is indeed a...
Tough Times for the ITAD/Electronics Recycling Sector
The IT Asset Disposition space, and extending into electronics recycling are witnessing an unprecedented...
Will Arrow Electronics Focus on Cleaning Up its ITAD Acquisitions?
It’s been a while since the late October release of Arrow’s results for its fiscal third quarter. Arrow Electronics...
Special Report: Data Security Practices is Front and Center in Enterprise ITAD
Compliance has been a key driving factor of enterprise ITAD. Although the environmental compliance has taken a less...
ITAD & Electronic Recycling: Brand New PCs, the Commodity Market and China: Weak outlook but the opportunity may be staring at you
A series of data points were released recently confirming the sustained difficult environment facing many major tech...
Special Report. ITAD Vendors: Do you know where your prospects are?
For IT asset disposition (ITAD) service providers, finding customers is not easy. This is obviously less of an issue...
SIMS’ SRS, Standards and the Voice of the Consumer
By David Daoud | ddaoud@compliance-standards.com: There has been a great deal of chatter these days over the logic...
Research Report: 2015 ITAD’s Competitive Landscape & 2016 Outlook
ITAD’s Competitive Landscape in Large US Enterprise and High-Value Verticals & 2016 Outlook PRESS RELEASE: US...
Despite Stated Commitment to Data Security, US Companies Continue to Neglect Mobile Devices Security: Impact on ITAD
There is plenty of evidence that data security tops the minds of IT Managers and all of those tasked to administer...
Trans-Atlantic M&A Activity : Arrow buys UK Firm, Finland’s Kuusakoski buys US Processor
M&A activity in the ITAD sector continues, with US and European firms looking to grab assets in North American and...
Data Cleansing of PC Clients at ITAD/eRecycling: Key Issues and Estimated US Addressable Market
Insuring that decommissioned PCs do not carry data at their disposition phase is a primary concern for IT Managers and...
Sage Sustainable Electronics (SageSE): Risky Move or a Distruptive Startup?
Ongoing developments in the ITAD/eWaste sector suggest that established players in the industry are going through a...