Retronix Component Recovery: Pioneering Sustainability Through Circular Economy Solutions

Retronix Component Recovery SERVICE: ADVANCING Sustainability Through Circular Economy Solutions

The demand for electronic goods is skyrocketing. However, this rapid growth in electronics consumption has led to a concerning rise in electronics waste (e-waste). The necessity for effective methods to recover and recycle these discarded materials is crucial. One such pioneering solution comes from Retronix Component Recovery Service, a service dedicated to promoting sustainability through circular economy solutions.

The Growing Dilemma of E-Waste

PCB in landfill

The swift pace of innovation, combined with the short lifespan of electronic products has resulted in a substantial increase in e-waste. 

According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2020, the world produced a staggering 53.6 million metric tonnes of electronic waste, and only 17.4% of it was properly documented and recycled. The remaining waste often ends up in landfills or is incinerated, leading to pollution and the squandering of valuable resources.

Embracing The Concept Of Circular Economy

The concept of circular economy has gained considerable importance in recent years. This approach promotes sustainable production, reuse, and recycling of materials throughout their lifecycle. 

By applying circular economy principles to electronics, it’s possible to minimize waste and recover valuable electronic components that can be used again in new products. This creates a closed loop system where waste is minimised, and everything services a second purpose elsewhere in the supply chain.

INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

Defence, aerospace, and military sectors are critical to national security. The systems they operate are time-tested and have long lifespans. However, the electronic systems that run on these platforms are often obsolete or no longer produced.

Retronix’s component recovery service offers the best solution to obtain electronic components from their own old and scrapped boards for reuse. This not only ensures the availability of tested and qualified components, but it also prevents valuable critical components from being sent to landfill. It also prevents components being sourced from unknown or geo-political sensitive areas, thus mitigating the risk of counterfeit or malicious components entering the supply chains.

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Automotive Chip Shortage

The Automotive sector can benefit in several ways, both from the point of view of supply chain and sustainability. Reduces the need for new components: By recovering electronic components from old or obsolete vehicles, the automotive sector can reduce the need for new components. This can save the sector money and help to reduce the environmental impact of the automotive industry.

Ensures access to critical components: In some cases, it may be difficult or impossible to obtain new electronic components. By recovering components, the automotive sector can ensure that it has access to the components it needs.

Companies in the industrial, consumer electronics, and cloud computing sectors can save millions of components and circuit boards from going to landfill by safely recovering electronic components for reuse.

This process helps to recover excellent value from otherwise scrap components and reduces a significant portion of the carbon footprint.

👇 Reducing e-waste,
🔒 Safeguarding supply chains from counterfeit devices,
📦 Keep the production lines running, and
🌎 Help protect the environment.

2000
YEAR
640000
PCBs
2400000
COMPONENTS SAVED
$ 11000000 +
VALUE RECOVERED

Component Recovery service

Retronix has been at the forefront in offering circular economy solutions for over three decades. 

The Retronix Component Recovery Service has been instrumental in driving sustainability by recovering high-value components from end-of-life products, scrap, and fallout. 

These components are then re-integrated into the supply chain, thereby reducing waste and promoting resource efficiency.

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Circular Economy- reclaim & reuse electronic components.

Circular Economy - reclaim & reuse of electronic components

The global demand for electronics continues to grow. 

The International Data Corporation forecasts that the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality will drive worldwide spending on information technology to more than $1 trillion. In the digital age, electronic products are an indispensable part of our lives. 

However, the fast pace of innovation and short product life cycles also mean that electronics often have a short user lifespan. This has led to a rise in e-waste as well as a loss of valuable resources locked inside these devices. Every year millions of tons of electronic devices end up in landfills instead of being recycled. 

Reducing this waste and finding new ways to reuse or recycle old electronics could help reduce their environmental impact while also driving business value at the same time.

Industrial digitalisation and the circular economy are two important megatrends that can help drive innovation in the electronics value chain. The global market for electronic devices is estimated to be worth more than $177 billion in 2019.  

As a result, companies operating in this sector now need to adopt new strategies to remain competitive in the digital age. One of those is adopting a circular economy approach, which involves principles such as sustainable production, reuse, and recycling of materials at every stage of their lifecycle.

By applying these principles to electronics, computers, server boards, hardware, internet of things, telecom electronics, and more, it’s possible to reduce not only waste but also recover valuable electronic components/devices that can be used over again in new products – creating a closed loop system where nothing is wasted and everything has a second life somewhere else in the supply chain.

Circular economy thinking is everywhere these days. Innovation leaders in every industry embrace circular principles to reduce waste, cut costs and boost productivity.

Component recovery, re-use & circular economy solutions

Retronix Component recovery, re-use & circular economy solutions

Manufacturing Stage: Re-integrate high-value components from fallout, end of life products, scrap – back into your supply chain.

Life Extension: Re-process, re-condition, refresh, test and verify components for aftermarket care and future sourcing.

End of Life & Re-sourcing: Recover your devices from scrap, prepare for re-use, test, validate and verify for integration in your refurbishment and manufacturing stages.

Circular Economy ethos of refurbish & re-use. This isn’t a new vision for Retronix – we have successfully been offering customers our recovery & re-use solutions for over 30 years.

Our wide range of services to the electronics industry allows us to offer a complete service for the safe recovery of parts ready for your new builds.

  • IC Tests 
  • Visual Inspection 
  • Re-reeling & Re-packing 
  • 24 Hour Post Bake

Retronix has developed a process to recover and refurbish these electronic components including BGAs, to enable reuse. This process meets the component manufacturer’s specifications of maximum reflow cycles allowed on an electronic component, adhered to extensively by both OEMs and CEMs. 

In 2021 Retronix recovered nearly 3 million components from approximately 650,000 PCBs that would otherwise have gone to scrap or landfill. We expect this number to double this year due to the ongoing supply chain disruptions, more organisations discovered Component Reclaim as a viable and valuable solution to their component sourcing issues.

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