OceanTech
1313 Winter Street NE , Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Our mission is to create long term relationships by recovering maximum value from client’s IT assets while eliminating environmental liabilities and ensuring complete data security throughout the electronic recycling process.OceanTech was founded in 2005 with a vision to recover value from retired IT hardware through maximizing reuse while minimizing the practice of scrapping electronics for raw materials.Oceantech is able to pay 2 – 3 times more for your retired/surplus data center hardware, including hard drives, LTO tapes, servers, and network gear, plus office electronics such as laptops, computers, LCD monitors, and phone systems. Whether you have dozens or thousands of pieces of retired hardware, we will always return the most value for your equipment.

Demand for our services and the products that otherwise may have gone for scrap has allowed OceanTech to grow each year independent of outside funding. To date, OceanTech has serviced over 1600 clients, including fortune 500 & 1000 corporations, federal and state government agencies, universities, school districts, and small businesses.Our mission is to create long-term relationships by recovering maximum value for our clients’ IT assets, while eliminating environmental liabilities and ensuring complete data security.

Innovations that set us apart:

• Convenience for organizations wishing to retire IT assets
• Full-service pickups (utilizing company trucks, crews, carts, etc.)
• De-installations, including data centers, server rooms, and office workstations
• Nationwide service and logistics

We also offer better sorting, refurbishing, remarketing techniques:

• More detailed sorting and tracking of marketable items & components
• Expert testing and refurbishing technology/knowledgebase
• Widest network of remarketing channels

In addition, we employ a safe and thorough recovery of materials:

•  Best practices for environmentally responsible recycling
• Wide network of licensed recyclers for individual e-waste items
• Maximization of material recovery for re-use

ITAD Electronic Recycling Solutions

• Highest value returns in the industry for retired servers, computers, laptops, networking gear and more!
• Secure chain of custody, state of the art data security infrastructure and data destruction lab.
• Offering complete data center, server room and office LAN de-installation and decommissioning.
• Providing global logistics solutions to IT managers across the country, including white glove services.
• Assisting organizations with hardware upgrades by recovering value on retired IT assets.
• Our custom reporting and online portal will save you countless hours tracking your retired hardware.
• Off-lease buyouts, relocations, business closures and downsizes, surplus equipment buys.
• Third-party audited facility for the highest standards of electronic recycling in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Asset Recovery

OceanTech specializes in helping organizations distinguish between their valuable and non-valuable IT assets. Our asset recovery experts can help your organization maximize on the value of its retired equipment by making sure that your valuable assets don’t end up in the e-waste recycling stream. Take advantage of our free no obligation equipment evaluation to get an idea of what your equipment is worth.

Asset Recovery: Equipment that still holds market value is cataloged to make sure you get as much value back for your equipment as possible. Through our knowledge and expertise in older and surplus equipment, many times we are able to recover more value from items that other companies would otherwise overlook.

Refurbishing: Our expert technicians make sure that all hardware bound for re-sale is wiped clear of all data and reset to factory default settings.  Equipment is then returned to grade A condition to ensure maximum return in the consumer market.

Remarketing: Once your retired assets have been refurbished, our expert sales team will make sure that your equipment is sold to the correct end-user in order to recover maximum value. OceanTech and its sister company OTHardware have one of the most comprehensive networks of end-users and broker dealers in the country insuring that you get top dollar for your equipment.

Electronics Recycling

OceanTech provides a reuse-based, environmentally friendly, liability-free electronics recycling service that is designed to bring value back to our customers. We are committed to managing used and end-of-life electronics, components, and materials based on a reuse, recover, energy recovery hierarchy. Prior to reuse, equipment is wiped clear of data, tested, and thoroughly cleaned.All data-containing material is wiped or destroyed prior to leaving the OceanTech facility for recycling. We conduct thorough and regular audits of all of potential and current downstream vendors that receive any equipment for recycling. All materials are recycled in accordance with R2 recycling standards. Our strict “No Landfill” policy applies to all electronics received. We are audited regularly by both internal processes and external organizations.We are proud to hold R2 Responsible Recycling certification and ISO 14001:2004 environmental management system certification. In the process of attaining these internationally recognized certifications, our environmental, health and safety, and security procedures have been inspected and certified by an independent third party auditor.

Data Security

OceanTech has a strong commitment to the security of our clients’ confidential information. When data storage media is sold, transferred, or recycled, it is important to ensure that all data contained on these devices is eliminated. We offer a secure chain of custody for the transportation of equipment back to our facility, where certified data destruction is performed. All proprietary labeling and asset tags are removed from all equipment to protect the privacy of our clients. The reports and certificates that are generated may be stored on OceanTech’s secure online client portal for your reference or later retrieval.