SSI's Approach to Electronics Recycling and IT Asset Recovery

SSI provides complete recycling services to many major electronics manufacturers in the consumer electronics, industrial electronics, office equipment, instrumentation electronics and medical electronics industries. SSI possesses exceptional knowledge and skills in identifying the most efficient approach to recycle a wide variety of equipment so that optimal material recovery rates can be achieved. SSI is the only company in the recycling industry that has management staff with a Ph.D. degree in Material Sciences.

SSI uses a combination of manual demanufacturing and automated shredding systems to accomplish the material recycling tasks. All hard drives will be damaged or shredded.

In addition to demanufacturing and shredding, SSI also provides several value-added services:

• Deinstallation: SSI helps many large companies deinstall equipment for off-leased equipment at their customers’ sites or when they relocate their offices or factories. In addition to skilled laborers, SSI uses its own fleet of trailers and tractors. This capability significantly reduces logistics and labor costs.
• Parts Harvesting: SSI’s parts harvesting service is perceived as a very valuable service to several OEM customers as some parts are critical to their timely maintenance and remanufacturing services. One of SSI's customer requested that SSI retrieve 50-100 parts from a wide variety of the equipment they manufactured. SSI not only has established very detailed procedures and training programs for its staff, but also used its inventory management system to control the parts inventory. All of the circuit boards and delicate parts are well packaged to avoid damages during transportation. This particular customer is very satisfied with SSI's well-organized and accurate services.
• In addition to SSI’s own remarketing channels, SSI has also established strategic alliances with several leading on-line auction/liquidation service providers. Their extensive global reach helps SSI to remarket items timely and expeditiously.
• In preparation for remarketing, SSI performs inspection, testing, repair/refurbish and component/parts (hard drive, floppy drive, cooling fans, etc.) harvesting tasks as required.
• All of the corporate asset tags will be removed. When requested by customers, serial numbers will be removed as well.
• SSI performs stringent data erasure tasks (as per the DOD (Department of Defense) 5220.22-M specification) to CPUs, servers, and hard drives to be remarketed. One of SSI's corporate customers (a financial institution) sent SSI's erased laptops to their forensic labs for testing. The NAID auditor found data in every hard drive was 100% erased.
• SSI performs operating system removal and installation services:
  • Data Sanitization
  • Secure Chain-of-Custody Report Requirements
  • Specialized and Customized Reports
• SSI has instituted an attractive revenue-sharing program for computers, laptops and other assets that may be identified to be remarketed.This revenue-sharing plan is one of the best in the industry.