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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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Should we pay attention to IBM’s quantum foundry?

Jun 4, 2026

IBM announced that it plans to launch a standalone quantum chip foundry company with support from a proposed $1 billion CHIPS Act award. The announcement adds another signal that the United States is accelerating investment in advanced computing infrastructure.

AI Vision Is Moving to Line in E‑Waste Sorting

Jun 2, 2026

AI‑driven camera sorting is moving into practical plant‑floor tools for ITAD and electronics recyclers. Early systems like Apple’s A.R.I.S. show that low‑cost vision models running on commodity hardware can drive pneumatic sorters at line speed and deliver high‑purity metal and PCB streams, suggesting that facilities which start piloting these techniques now will gain a structural edge on recovery, cost, and specification compliance over the next three to five years.