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.
Companies to Watch
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...
ITAD Receives Strategic Investments from Two Private Equity Firms
In the fragmented IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) sector, two recent announcements highlight the sustained investor...
May ITAD marketing efforts weaken. ERI recovers first spot, closely followed by Apto Solutions
Pure play ITAD vendors in the United States struggled to keep their marketing momentum in May. Compliance Standards’...
Podcast: Deep dive into ITAD, a conversation with Cascade Asset Management CEO
ITAD.NATION PODCAST Deep Dive into ITAD & Electronics Recycling A discussion with Neil Peters-Michaud, CEO of...
SIMS Warning is another Sign of a Pending ITAD Sector Reconfiguration
When a company’s business unit operates in a non-core industry, it is not so difficult to assume that the business...
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...
HPQ’s Poor Performance and Impact on ITAD/Recycling
Echoing the sustained drop in demand for PCs, printers and classic mass IT equipment, HP’s PC/printing unit (NYSE:HPQ)...
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...
The Return of the Veterans: Can they Bring Fresh Momentum to a Sluggish Market?
The ITAD and electronics recycling sectors are facing a state of freeze. Many of the techniques that were used over a...
Coping with high-velocity product life-cycle, and getting the secondary market busy
Here’s an interesting quote from CNN: “T-Mobile is offering new and existing customers an iPhone 6S (16 GB) for $5 a...
Data Security: Blancco buys Tabernus, what does that mean and the challenges ahead
Corporate Strategy / M&A / Competitive Landscape | By David Daoud | Blancco has long been one of the top...
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...
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...
Compliance Standards LLC Awards Data Security Firm Blancco Five-Star Excellence Rating for Vision, Execution, and Sustainability
Miami, Florida, April 15, 2014 – Compliance Standards LLC announces that data erasure expert Blancco was awarded a...
Moving Up the Value Chain, Regenersis Acquires Blancco
Download PDF version here | UK-based electronics services and repair company Regenersis announced that it has acquired...