Revive IT adds Untha shredder

Revive IT’s headquarters in Leeds, England, has commissioned a shredder in preparation for increasing its business in 2021, according to the company.

Revive IT specializes in securely refurbishing and recycling a range of electronic devices, including computers, laptops, mobile phones, hard drives, tablets, printers, servers and networking hardware.

The company’s investment in a containerized RS40 shredder from Untha Shredding Technology GmbH, which is headquartered in Germany, represents its move to bring its waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) shredding services entirely in-house for what Revive IT says is added peace of mind when it comes to secure data destruction.

The four-shaft shredder initially will be used to process 5,000 redundant hard drives and 5,000 media tapes. Revive IT says it then plans to routinely shred 1,000 more of each unit type per week to meet rising demand. Engineered specifically for this application, the company says the shredder has the capacity to process three times this volume should the company continue to expand.

With data destruction requirements varying from one customer to the next, 90 percent of the WEEE Revive IT processes will be processed down to a 40-millimeter (roughly 1.5-inch) particle size, according to the company with 10 percent of the incoming WEEE being reduced to 6 millimeters (roughly 0.25 inch) to satisfy the highest government security standards.

The segregated plastics and metals will then be sent for recycling and reinsertion into the value chain, Revive IT says.

“Our customers turn to us for a fully-insured secure data destruction service, complete with the reassurance that all environmental—as well as compliance—obligations are being upheld,” says General Manager Oliver Bedford. “GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the increasing volume of data exchanged digitally means demand for our services has continued to rise, and that was before Covid-19.

“Managing the WEEE shredding ourselves—rather than relying on third parties, however experienced—means we have complete quality control over our service provision from end to end,” he continues. “We’re also better positioned to support more customers, including far larger organizations with ultra-sensitive security requirements.”

The shredder was purchased through Untha Finance and includes a service and maintenance package, Revive IT says.

“I’d read about Untha’s DIN- (Deutsches Institut für Normung-) compliant shredding technology and the more I explored the RS40’s capabilities, the more I realized this was by far the most superior machine on the market for our secure data destruction brief,” Bedford says. “The level of knowledge within the Untha team reflects this too.”