Aurubis raised its full-year earnings outlook after stronger second-quarter results driven in part by higher returns from recycling materials and precious metals. The company’s performance and ongoing recycling-capacity expansion projects in Germany and the U.S. are being closely watched by electronics recyclers and ITAD firms as indicators of downstream demand for complex e-scrap and recovered metals.
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Corporate Strategy: Dave Bernstein on #ITAD Channels, Compliance and the Long Game in Enterprise Asset Disposition
My guest is Dave Bernstein, CEO of Anything IT, who came into the industry at Y2K and has spent decades building a channel driven, certification heavy ITAD model that now serves both Fortune grade enterprises and the US federal government in roughly equal measure.
Corporate Strategy: Paladin EnviroTech: Operating Thesis, Build Model, and Forward Outlook
This assessment focuses on Paladin as an operating structure in development. The objective is to determine what the company is attempting to build, how it is likely to behave during its formation phase, and what constraints will shape its progression.
New Blancco workflow targets ITAD bottleneck
Blancco has introduced a new tool aimed at tightening one of the more persistent gaps in ITAD operations: the handoff...
Takeways: Mitsubishi Materials investment in Elemental’s US e-scrap platform
Mitsubishi Materials has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Elemental Group’s US e-waste platform, which operates...
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...
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....
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...