IT Lifecycle Services - recovery, refurbishment, re-use and remarketing of computer equipment

Our IT asset recovery experience is founded on the strengths brought from acquisitions: Life Cycle Services, RecommIT and Mirec, all leaders in their field. The Sims Recycling Solutions IT asset recovery proposition provides businesses and organisations with a wide range of recovery services with the aim of supporting your IT asset management strategy. In addition to our national UK service, we offer computer recovery services in continental Europe, Australia and North America.

Organisations choose our IT Asset Recovery proposition over other IT service providers due to the breadth of asset management options on offer and the flexibility we provide in enabling you to choose a modular approach that fits your IT retirement strategy. Sims' recovery services include:

• Recover IT: Logistics and de-installation including data centre decommissioning – we can manage the process on your behalf, even down to complete site clearance should you need it!
• Erase IT: Secure data destruction – you choose between industry leading Blancco® Data Cleaner and physical hardware shredding or degaussing. Our onsite services provide mobile data erasure and hard drive shredding.
• Re-use IT: Computer hardware redeployment within your organisation or resale – through various channels – we guarantee your data is completely removed prior to remarketing. Parts and component recovery for re-use, redistribution or resale is also available.
• Recycle IT: Computer recycling – for obsolete, end of life or beyond economic repair computer equipment, recovering metals and plastics for recycling
• Report IT: Real time asset tracking and reporting, using our bespoke, online WebView asset management software
• Return IT: Warranty and customer returns services for OEMs, distributors, resellers and retailers

Control IT is a summary of the benefits of partnering with Sims' IT Lifecycle proposition, based on the underlying added value provided by our industry leading IT asset management system, WebView, in controlling your whole disposition process.

We work to the highest standards available within lifecycle management. Our qualifications include:

• Data Destruction completed to HMG IA Standard No. 5 - Secure Sanitisation of Protectively Marked or Sensitive Information, Issue 3.1, October 2009 (formerly Infosec 5 and CESG S)
• Hardware destruction to UK government standards.
• ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems
• ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
• OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Management Systems
• We are working in accordance with the ISO 27001 Security Standard whilst our application is being processed
• Microsoft Authorised Refurbisher

The Sims Recycling Solutions IT asset recovery proposition is all about giving you a choice of disposal options, helping you to meet your asset retirement and environmental objectives whilst delivering maximum value to your business from the redeployment of surplus or end of life technology assets such as PCs, laptops, networking equipment and computer peripherals.

Sims Recycling Solutions offers a range of computer refurbishment services for either internal re-use or re-use via the sales channel or remarketing of IT assets. We can also provide commodity recycling services.

Sims Recycling Solutions provides ICT asset recovery services in continental Europe, Australasia, Africa and North America too. Therefore OEMs and other global corporations need only work with one supplier worldwide.

Visit our global IT web page for details.