Recent earnings updates from Aurubis, Umicore and Sims Limited suggest that parts of the downstream metals and electronics recycling market remain comparatively healthy heading into the remainder of 2026. The companies cited supportive precious-metal and non-ferrous pricing, strong recycling activity levels, and continued demand for high-value secondary materials, even as they warned of ongoing pressure from feedstock tightness and volatile treatment charges.
Competitive Analysis
Raised Aurubis guidance sends positive signal for circuit board and metals recovery markets
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.
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.
Coping with high-velocity product life-cycle, and getting the secondary market busy
Data Security: Blancco buys Tabernus, what does that mean and the challenges ahead
IT Product Evolution and ITAD Sector Outlook
Research Report: 2015 ITAD’s Competitive Landscape & 2016 Outlook
ITAD’s Competitive Landscape in Large US Enterprise and High-Value Verticals & 2016 Outlook PRESS RELEASE: US...
Trans-Atlantic M&A Activity : Arrow buys UK Firm, Finland’s Kuusakoski buys US Processor
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...
Despite no Contribution from Acquired ITAD Companies, Component and IT Distributors Plan on Spending More on ITAD
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Moving Up the Value Chain, Regenersis Acquires Blancco
Sony Phases Out PC Unit: The End of an Era, Impact on US Recycling Space
Download PDF version here | It was just a matter of time for Sony. The company is about to sell its PC business, in a...
M&A Activity to Continue in ITAD and Electronics Recycling Markets as the Number of Small Independent Firms Shrinks, Says Compliance Standards
Press Release: Miami, Florida, February 4, 2014 – Compliance Standards LLC is pleased to announce the release of an...
Arrow Acquires U.S. Micro: First Take and Implications
CS.llc OPINION: Although we have not seen a formal announcement, several indicators show that independent ITAD...
IT Asset Disposition Sector: 2014 Predictions
Current State of ITAD and the Shape of Things to Come
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M&A Heats up in IT Equipment Recycling: Ingram Micro Acquires CloudBlue
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