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ITAD M&A Activity: Transaction Trends, Buyer Strategy and Market Direction

Twenty-two ITAD transactions closed between October 2024 and July 2026. Deal frequency held flat year over year, but composition shifted: private equity platforms moved from opportunistic bolt-ons to stated, multi-deal roll-up programs, buyers began acquiring governance and program-management capability alongside processing capacity, and materials companies with no prior ITAD history took equity positions tied directly to data-center hardware lifecycle value.

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ERI confirms ITAD shift toward minerals

Jul 5, 2026

Electronic Recyclers International’s newly released fiscal 2025 Impact Report details the company’s environmental, governance and operational performance, while also offering a window into how one of North America’s largest ITAD and electronics recycling companies...

The Euro Report 1: France’s Electronics Lifecycle Market where Repair and Resale Outpace Recycling

Jun 23, 2026

France is emerging as Europe’s clearest example of electronics value shifting from recycling toward reuse and lifecycle management: Commercial proof points are mounting — Back Market closed 2025 with $3.5 billion in GMV and its first profitable year, while Amazon’s €15 billion investment roadmap, Google’s first French data center, and SoftBank’s €45 billion campus signal a coming wave of high-value data center decommissioning. For investors looking at that market, the key takeaway is that value is migrating from shredding and smelting toward capture, repair, and remarketing, and France offers one of the clearest previews of where that shift is heading.