Sumitomo Corporation has taken an equity stake in GreenTek Solutions, a Texas-based IT asset disposition firm, becoming an equity-method affiliate as it enters the U.S. ITAD market amid AI-driven data center hardware turnover.
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M&A: Sumitomo Takes Equity Stake in U.S. ITAD Firm GreenTek, Betting on AI-Driven Hardware Disposal
Sumitomo Corporation has taken an equity stake in GreenTek Solutions, a Texas-based IT asset disposition firm, becoming an equity-method affiliate as it enters the U.S. ITAD market amid AI-driven data center hardware turnover.
Corporate Strategy: Blancco Bets on the Drive, Not the Device, as It Chases a Recover-First IT Market
Blancco is rebuilding its business around the ‘drive’, not the device, betting that surging AI infrastructure and component scarcity are pushing ITAD from “destruct-first” to “recover-first.” The company’s new strategy centers on data-bearing drives, data center decommissioning, and mobile, positioning certified erasure and diagnostics as the backbone of a market where assets move fluidly between enterprises, processors, and secondary channels.
Opinion: The Sims Leadership Changes Point to a Broader Generational Shift Across the ITAD Industry
Sims Limited’s executive leadership changes this week may be evidence of a generational transition surfacing across the industry regardless of ownership model, as the leaders who built ITAD over the past two decades begin handing off to whoever comes next.
IBM’s 2025 Breach Data Puts ITAD Providers Inside the Vendor-Risk Perimeter
The global average breach cost at $4.44 million, according to IBM. Healthcare leads all industries at $7.42 million, followed by financial services at $5.56 million, industrial at $5.00 million, energy at $4.83 million, and technology at $4.79 million. Supply-chain compromise, where ITAD sists, ranks as the second-costliest attack vector at $4.91 million per incident, trailing only malicious insider incidents at $4.92 million. Phishing averages $4.80 million and stolen credentials $4.67 million. For ITAD providers, the supply-chain figure is the number that matters. Enterprise procurement teams now treat disposition vendors as part of the same risk perimeter as any other third party with access to sensitive data. Governance maturity, documentation quality, and audit readiness are becoming primary evaluation criteria, alongside processing capacity and recovery rates. Providers serving healthcare and financial services face buyers with the highest breach-cost exposure and the strongest incentive to demand governance-mature partners.
M&A: Telamon acquires 21-year-old ITAD consultancy Retire-IT, retaining founder Kyle Marks
Telamon Corporation has acquired Retire-IT, with founder Kyle Marks staying on as VP of ITAD services under Telamon’s enterprise services division. The deal follows Telamon’s 2025 hire of Mark Vander Kooy, a former ITAD executive whose earlier company was acquired into what became CloudBlue — a sequence that reads as a company using an experienced operator to identify a target before buying one.
What makes this deal notable is that Retire-IT doesn’t process equipment; it’s a managed-service and tracking layer that oversees roughly three dozen certified processors on clients’ behalf, a model Marks calls “defensible IT disposition.” Marks argues the acquisition points to a broader shift in enterprise ITAD, away from processors vouching for their own compliance and toward separating execution from independent oversight, though whether that’s an industry-wide trend or one operator’s thesis remains to be seen. Full analysis, including Telamon’s revenue and customer figures, sourcing details, and the two open questions likely to matter most to clients of both firms, available to Compliance Standards subscribers.
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