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California Sets the Pace for Climate Regulation: Can Suppliers, Vendors and Contractors Meet Rising Client Demands?
California is setting a powerful precedent in climate regulation with its expansive new climate disclosure laws, now affecting more than 4,000 companies across the country—including many of America’s largest corporations. The California Air Resources Board (CARB)’s...
New Smelting and Refining Capacity in the U.S. Strategic Metals Market
Aurubis is now operating a major recycling facility in Richmond, Georgia, its first big U.S. site. Built for $800 million, the plant can handle up to 180,000 metric tons of scrap and recover copper, nickel, tin, and precious metals from things like circuit boards and...
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AI-Readiness & Relevance: A Strategic Roadmap for ITAD Providers
These are recommendations that ITAD companies should consider to remain visible, discoverable, and verifiable in an AI-driven procurement environment. Staring page 13.
PDF Report: AI Adoption in ITAD Procurement
This report looks at a Compliance Standards survey of 400 US organizations and reports on the use of AI in RFPs, what has changed and what's ahead.
Maturity Self-Assessment Grid for Strategic Alignment
The last two pages of this document, titled 'ITAD Strategic Alignment Report: Mid-2025', contains a 'Maturity Self-Assessment Grid."
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Marketing ITAD: The Spotlights of September 2025
At the end of each month, we at Compliance Standards, sift through the marketing of ITAD companies to identify interesting patterns and trends that may be taking place in the industry. Most of the months, things are stable with no major events, but in some months...
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Procurri’s Delisting from SGX and What’s Ahead
On September 22, 2025, Procurri Corporation Limited was delisted from the Singapore Exchange following its privatization by Exeo Global Asset Holdings, with shareholders receiving cash and Exeo taking full control. As a global provider of IT lifecycle services across...
Research: Hyperscaler ITAD: Market Expansion, Segmentation, & Strategic Opportunity
This special report, “Hyperscaler ITAD Market Expansion, Segmentation, and Strategic Opportunity,” from Compliance Standards LLC, offers the industry’s most comprehensive and realistic analysis of the evolving landscape for IT asset disposition (ITAD) in the...
M&A: Tailwind Capital’s First ITAD Acquisition: Assessing the DMD Systems Recovery Transaction
Tailwind Capital has made a majority investment in DMD Systems Recovery, signaling private equity’s increasing interest in ITAD. The move positions DMD for expansion, but also underscores the sector’s unique compliance and operational demands. Our forthcoming Active...
iPhone 17’s Sustainability Profile Improves in Recycled Content and Security, But Repairability Stagnates
Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max arrive with a mix of sustainability upgrades, new design choices, and expanded security features. For IT asset disposition (ITAD) operators, recyclers, and repair professionals operating in the mobility space, these shifts are...
Semiconductor 2Q2025 Sector Results and Implications on Hardware Decommissioning Industry
The latest semiconductor earnings reveal a sharp divide whereby AI and data centers are fueling extraordinary growth, while PCs and consumer devices remain sluggish. Furthermore, the data shows evidence of a clear split in the data center market, with significant...
Case Study: Close the Loop’s FY25 Loss Highlights the Danger of Chasing Volume Over Value in ITAD
Case Background Close the Loop Limited (ASX: CLG) is an Australia-headquartered circular economy company with operations across North America and Europe, and services extending into New Zealand. Its Resource Recovery division is central to its IT asset disposition...
Cautious Optimism: Market Signals Warrant Vigilance in the ITAD Sector
In the final week of August and the first days of September the ITAD and electronics‑recycling world took something of a breather. There were hardly any new deals or major operational changes, and the only real headlines came from earnings calls of companies...
The Independent ITAD Dilemma: HPE’s Growth Unlocks Volume but Locks Out Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise released its third quarter fiscal 2025 results on September 3, showing strong growth across servers, networking, and hybrid cloud. Revenue reached $9.1 billion, up 18 percent from a year ago. Servers brought in $4.9 billion, an all-time high...
Windows 10’s August Spike: Final Surge Before Sunset, Driven by the Secondary Market
When StatCounter released its global operating system figures for August 2025, one line on the chart stood out. See chart below. After months of steady decline, Windows 10 unexpectedly gained back a few points of market share, nearly crossing paths with Windows 11 in...
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