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Corporate Strategy: Inside ERI’s Global Playbook. What Vietnam Reveals About the Company’s Next Moves

ERI is betting on Asia because the region combines fast-growing IT hardware volumes with a shortage of formal, enterprise-grade disposition infrastructure. After expanding its U.S. footprint, ERI’s next growth opportunity lies in markets such as Japan and Vietnam, where data-center buildout, electronics manufacturing and digitalization are increasing equipment retirements faster than secure, transparent ITAD capacity. By partnering with ITOCHU and VSD Holdings, ERI gains local market access while bringing its own data-security, traceability and closed-loop recycling model to markets still shaped in part by informal recycling.

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Alphabet’s 2Q2026 Results: More Capital Spending and Cloud Backlog

Jul 27, 2026

Alphabet’s Q2 2026 earnings call put a number on the AI buildout: $44.9 billion in quarterly capex, with guidance raised to $195–$205 billion for the year. For ITAD and recycling providers, the real story isn’t the revenue growth, it’s the asset volume that spending signals down the line.

Corporate Strategy: Blancco Bets on the Drive, Not the Device, as It Chases a Recover-First IT Market

Jul 13, 2026

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.