Recent announcements indicate that Mitsubishi Materials has agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in Elemental Group’s US e-waste platform, which operates through Colt Recycling. The transaction reflects a broader trend in which large metals and materials groups are seeking closer integration with upstream electronics recycling and pre-processing operations as part of their circular-economy strategies. A more detailed assessment of the strategic implications, execution risks, and what this transaction signals for the evolving relationship between IT asset disposition and metals recovery is available to subscribers.
Mature Markets
Part 1: 2025 in Retrospect: Redefined ‘Serious’ ITAD
2025 marked a transition point for IT Asset Disposition and electronics recycling. Multiple forces that had been building over several years converged within a single operating cycle, changing not only volumes and asset flows, but the fundamental expectations placed on ITAD providers.
How acquisitions are fueling ITAD sector activity
By David Daoud: Over the past months, there has been a resurgence of activity fueling investments into the end of life of electronics in general, and in particular in the ITAD sector. Adjacent sectors such as e-scrap processing and data security have also been...
More than half of US enterprises don’t track their laptops, as 22% of the retired assets are missing
Compliance has been a key requirement driving enterprise IT asset disposition (ITAD), and is indeed a...
Tough Times for the ITAD/Electronics Recycling Sector
The IT Asset Disposition space, and extending into electronics recycling are witnessing an unprecedented...
As weak commodity market puts a damper on electronic recycling, some see value in M&As, position themselves for the long run
The ITAD and electronic recycling sectors had a strong showing a growth momentum during much the first decade of 2000,...
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...
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...
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...
Special Report. ITAD Vendors: Do you know where your prospects are?
For IT asset disposition (ITAD) service providers, finding customers is not easy. This is obviously less of an issue...
SIMS’ SRS, Standards and the Voice of the Consumer
By David Daoud | ddaoud@compliance-standards.com: There has been a great deal of chatter these days over the logic...
IT Product Evolution and ITAD Sector Outlook
Since 2010, with the advent of the first generation iPad, there has been a permanent discussion over the end of the...
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
M&A activity in the ITAD sector continues, with US and European firms looking to grab assets in North American and...
Data Cleansing of PC Clients at ITAD/eRecycling: Key Issues and Estimated US Addressable Market
Insuring that decommissioned PCs do not carry data at their disposition phase is a primary concern for IT Managers and...
PC Installed Base in the US: Density per State
It is no surprise that California is home of the biggest number of PCs in the US installed base. With an estimated...
IT Asset Disposition Sector: 2014 Predictions
This year, Compliance Standards is debuting its predictions for the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) space for the year...