A leading IT recycling specialist with headquarters in Lancashire is creating two full time jobs after launching a new mobile shredding service.
RecycleIT which provides IT disposal services, has invested £80,000 in a new hard drive shredding machine, which destroys hard drives and the data they contain.
Caption: From left to right: Robert Doherty, RecycleIT’s Managing Director, Steve Ackers of Recycle IT and Salma Chaudhry, Principal Business Advisor for Regenerate Pennine Lancashire with the new mobile shredding machine.
The growing Simonstone-based business received a £18,000 grant from Regenerate Pennine Lancashire that contributed towards the full cost of the investment. The grant was supported by the Government’s Regional Growth Fund.
RecycleIT has also invested in a 7.5 tonne vehicle with a solid base box allowing it to transport the new shredder to a client’s base. This means shredding can take place on site without the drives, and the sensitive data they contain, ever leaving a business premises.
“Obviously for us this equipment represents an important investment as it means we can offer a broader range of services. It has created two new jobs now and we more to follow as we continue to grow,” says Robert Doherty, RecycleIT’s Managing Director.
“Shredding hard drives allows businesses and other organisations to meet stringent Government regulations which cover the disposal of IT equipment. This approach is important for many firms because they need to ensure any sensitive data contained on the drives is destroyed. The drives are crushed to a powder which can then be recycled.”
“The machine is a very solid piece of equipment, capable of destroying a wide range of media. It can turn a hard drive into 6mm particles in a matter of minutes. The support from Regenerate helped us purchase the machine faster than we could have otherwise.”
RecycleIT is one of the UK’s leading IT recycling specialists offering a unique IT service. Established in 2011, it employs 12 people and provides everything from collection to disposal and recycling, all within a secure and environmentally sensitive way within the WEEE directive.
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About the Government’s Regional Growth Fund
The Government’s Regional Growth Fund has invested nearly £3 billion to help businesses in England to grow; so far generating over 100,000 jobs. 56 new awards in Round 6 and seven through exceptional RGF support – announced on 12 February 2015, gives £297 million to 63 projects and programmes to create and safeguard thousands more jobs and unlock an additional £1.5 billion private sector investment.
Regenerate Pennine Lancashire is an economic development company owned by Lancashire County Council and the borough councils in Pennine Lancashire: Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Hyndburn, Pendle and Rossendale. Leaders from these councils comprise the Pennine Lancashire Leaders Group. It receives funding from the European Regional Development Fund and Regional Growth Fund to deliver programmes to help businesses start and grow across the county. For more information visit growthlancs.wpengine.com
