- Closed Loop enables eastern US electronics recovery corridor
- Dell expects PC refresh to extend into next year
- E-Scrap Conference 2025 addresses macro trends reshaping industry
- Metallium accelerates its US expansion
- Industry trends point to opportunity for ITAD firms
- From scrap to strategy: Global battery recycling’s next phase
- ABTC expansion drives triple-digit revenue gains
- Tailwind Capital takes majority stake in DMD
- Triple-digit revenue gains propel ABTC’s expansion
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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...
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...
IT Hardware: The New Era of Resource Recovery and Critical Material Access
This 2025 special report analyzes how IT hardware recycling is becoming central to critical mineral recovery amid soaring industrial demand, geopolitical risk, and new policy mandates. Covering precious metals, battery materials, and rare earths, it maps business...
The Rise of Active Financial Capital in ITAD and Circular Infrastructure
About this Report (downloadable PDF report): The global IT asset disposition (ITAD), recycling, and materials-recovery industries are entering an institutional phase—one defined by financial discipline, data governance, and measurable circular outcomes. Active...
From Pulse Syndicated Research
Employment Softness in Tech May Be Leading Indicator of Asset Disposition Activity
The latest U.S. labor data provides useful context for how enterprise technology environments are evolving, with some downstream implications for IT asset disposition and electronic recycling. In November, the U.S. economy added 64,000 jobs. Total employment reached...
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...
Dell Q3 FY2026: Strong AI Infrastructure, Long Tail For End‑Of‑Life IT Assets
Dell’s Q3 FY2026 earnings call offers a very clear, financially grounded story for end‑of‑life IT asset management providers and remarketing companies, but it is also a highly curated narrative focused on AI‑led growth and margin resilience. Dell positions itself as...
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HP’s Earnings In A Mature PC And Print Market: Managed Growth and Rising Costs
HP’s Q4 FY2025 earnings call presents a more mixed but still constructive picture for end‑of‑life IT asset management providers and remarketing companies. Personal Systems is growing and skewing toward higher‑value, AI‑capable devices, while Print remains structurally...
Compliance: What Recent BAN and EPA Actions Reveal About Systemic Compliance Weaknesses
Recent findings from BAN and an EPA settlement with Apple reveal parallel weaknesses in downstream e-waste controls and upstream hazardous waste management. The analysis shows that compliance gaps are emerging across multiple points of the electronics lifecycle, indicating the need for stronger governance and verifiable operational systems.
Quarterly Results Map Out Inflection Points in IT Asset Lifecycle and Infrastructure
The third-quarter earnings reports from hardware, cloud, and lifecycle companies confirm that the decommissioning industry (decom) is expanding from hardware collection and recovery to the platforming of value creation through integration, compliance, and automation....
Iron Mountain’s Strong Q3 Performance Confirms ITAD’s Shift Toward Integrated Data and Lifecycle Governance
Iron Mountain’s third quarter results highlight how the ITAD sector is evolving into a full infrastructure and lifecycle services ecosystem. The company’s shift toward data centers, digital workflow, and asset lifecycle management reflects a broader move by enterprise clients toward integrated, compliance-driven lifecycle control rather than transactional recycling.
SK tes: Pathway to Hyperscale Decommissioning Through SK Group’s NVIDIA Partnership
The SK tes opportunity now extends well beyond traditional IT asset disposition. With SK Group’s new partnership to build a national-scale AI factory alongside NVIDIA, SK tes is strategically positioned to gain direct exposure to hyperscale data center decommissioning...
Connection’s Q3 Results: Public-Sector Delays, Enterprise Modernization Ahead
Connection’s Q3 results highlight an industry where modernization is guiding technology lifecycle and hardware flows. The company’s shift from hardware sales toward cloud, cybersecurity, and services signals fresh opportunities and new operational priorities for ITAD...
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End-User Research: Getting to Know your ITAD Vendor: SHI International
Client Services: Established in 1989, Somerset, NJ-based SHI International calls itself as “a personal technology concierge.” With gross sales of $14 billion in 2022 and with 6,000 employees, SHI sells IT hardware, software, and solutions to thousands of customers worldwide. While it offers IT asset disposition services, ITAD is a tiny portion of the company’s business, and is insignificant compared to its various core businesses.
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