RDC RECYCLING

DESCRIPTION

Europe's leading ICT Asset Recovery Services provider

RDC is the world’s foremost company for IT recycling and disposal and three times winner of the Queens Enterprise Award. With more than 20 years of experience and knowledge of handling used ICT equipment, RDC’s customers vary from Government and Public Sector Services,

RDC has developed extensive routes to market, exporting more than 50,000 individual items of IT equipment per month to more than 70 countries globally. As Europe's leading ICT asset recovery service provider we are able to offer the most competitive residual returns in the market. We are WEEE compliant, a Microsoft Approved Refurbisher with Certifications to international management standards, BS EN ISO 9001 (quality), BS EN ISO 14001 (environment), OHSAS 18001 (safety), PAS99 (integrated system), and PAS 141 (world’s first specification for the re-use of WEEE and UEEE). RDC report zero landfill on all IT and packaging waste processed.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

RDC was formed in 1991 starting life as a computer auction business, sourcing and selling second hand computer equipment to be sold at live auctions throughout southern England. Several years’ later product sales developed to encompass end of life IT disposal services helping private and public sector customers dispose of their used computer equipment. RDC became a specialist end of life solution provider for used and unwanted IT assets, focusing on the secure deletion of data stored on used computer equipment and responsibly recycling unusable and obsolete items.

The first batch of used IT equipment was processed by RDC in 1996. Following collection from customer site the equipment was data wiped, electrically safety tested and functionally checked, former user markings were removed and passed equipment was cleaned before resale to the second user market. Obsolete items were recycled to extract ferrous and non-ferrous materials through a shredding and separation processes. All equipment details including asset numbers were recorded to report back to the customer. Although some tasks remain the same today, our systems and processes have undergone significant change and complexity over the years as we have grown to become the World’s foremost IT Disposal and IT Recycling Company

In 1999 RDC was acquired by Computacenter as their specialist IT recovery and remarketing division. Computacenter is Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services.

Our best practice processes and procedures led to our first Queen’s Award for Enterprise win in 2002, for Innovation, for developing the IT asset management business model that has formed the basis for the company’s success.

Quality and service excellence is recognised through certification to international standards:

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System

ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System

PAS 99:2006 Integrated Management System

ISO 27001:2005 Security Management System

OHSAS 18001:2007 Occupational Health & Safety Management

In January 2012 RDC moved into new 355,000 square feet (35,000 m²) headquarters and operational centre in Braintree, Essex, believed to be the largest facility of its type in the World. This growth has largely been fuelled by our widening international network of customers for services and refurbished products.

We were awarded our third Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2012, this time for International Trade, adding to the awards for Innovation and Sustainable Development in 2002 and 2009 embracing comprehensive data security, wiping and electronic safety testing.

During 2012 we developed and implemented a range of web solutions in multiple languages for businesses, consumers and employees. Solutions enable the return and purchase refurbished equipment. Our newest website Money4Computers.com allows consumers and employees of our corporate customers to trade in their own equipment to generate money back with the confidence that data is securely erased.

SERVICES:

RDC’s core Asset Recovery Services are focussed on generating value from used ICT for our clients and creating an environmentally sustainable disposal solution for anything unsuitable for reuse.

RDC manages the complete process; from the logistical management of a collection, technical processing and secure data eradication or destruction through to testing and assessment for the resale of used ICT equipment and final recycling of unusable equipment.

Every item managed through our operation is tracked and can be reported on at item level through our in-house ICT asset management system. The stages through the process include electrical safety testing to verify that used PCs are safe to connect to mains power, diagnostic software to test the functionality of parts and components and data eradication software approved to HMG Security Services CESG standards to remove all data including licensed software.

Unmatched technical processing capability allows RDC to manage hundreds of thousands of used ICT assets every year, returning millions of pounds to our customers from the residual value in their used ICT.

CONTACT DETAILS

Tekhnicon Springwood CM7 2YN Braintree, Essex

Phone +44 1376 336400

Email services@rdc.co.uk

Website http://www.rdc.co.uk