ERI, the U.S.’s main materials useful resource restoration, ITAD, mobility and knowledge destruction/processing supplier and largest recycler of electronics, has introduced a collaborative partnership with ITOCHU Company, a number one international buying and selling and funding conglomerate engaged in home buying and selling, import/export, and abroad buying and selling of assorted merchandise, in addition to enterprise funding in Japan and abroad.
ERI and ITOCHU will crew as much as deliver state-of-the-art e-waste recycling and ITAD companies to Japan on the first international location of ERI: “ERI Japan.” The enterprise, co-owned by ERI and ITOCHU (50% possession for every group, with ITOCHU’s funding made by means of its wholly owned subsidiary, Belong Inc.), will incorporate greatest practices from each organizations, together with ERI’s innovation-driven round options for responsibly recycling electronics, and the networks of the ITOCHU Group and its companions in Japan and abroad.
“It’s an honor to accomplice with this storied, 150+ 12 months Japanese model for this first-of-its-kind enterprise,” stated John Shegerian, ERI’s chairman and CEO. “ITOCHU and ERI working collectively alerts a novel, unprecedented partnership that may deliver greatest sustainability and circularity practices from North America and Asia collectively as a unified entrance. Our work can be finished in a radically clear, end-to-end closed loop method the place supplies can be stored out of landfills, responsibly recycled, and put again into the round economic system to supply new merchandise in Japan. We’re extremely excited and honored to be getting into into this strategic partnership with our future-minded buddies at ITOCHU.”
With eight places (and rising) in america, ERI’s strengths lie in its means to offer round options starting from knowledge destruction and the superior shredding of end-of-life IT tools to remarketing, recycling, logistics and regulatory compliance companies. Along with its achievement of extremely clear chain of custody administration making certain the monitoring of every IT asset utilizing proprietary software program, ERI additionally possesses applied sciences leveraging AI picture recognition and robotic arms to routinely and precisely type shredded supplies.
Since its institution, ERI has recycled greater than 2.5 billion kilos of e-waste within the US, and it has contributed considerably to the conclusion of a circular economy. Whereas ERI has stringently audited ITAD and recycling companions in over 140 international locations, this new enterprise with ITOCHU is ERI’s first owned and ERI-branded location outdoors america.
Beneath its ‘Sampo-yoshi’ (“good for the vendor, good for the customer, and good for society”) company philosophy, the ITOCHU Group works to strengthen initiatives and contribute to the achievement of sustainable growth targets, whereas listening intently to the opinions of all stakeholders, together with customers, markets and society.
ERI Japan is scheduled to start doing enterprise later in 2026.
ERI is the nation’s main materials useful resource restoration, ITAD and tech reuse and recycling firm. ERI is licensed on the highest degree by all main environmental and knowledge safety oversight organizations to de-manufacture, recycle, and refurbish each kind of digital system in an environmentally accountable method. It’s the first firm in its trade to attain ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Kind II certifications for safety and knowledge safety. ERI has the capability to course of greater than a billion kilos of digital waste yearly at its eight licensed places, serving each zip code in america. ERI’s mission is to guard individuals, the planet and privateness. For extra details about circularity, ITAD companies and e-waste recycling at ERI, name 1-800-ERI-DIRECT or go to https://eridirect.com.
