Data centres, hospitals, banks and anyone else who holds sensitive data have to prove what happened to it when the kit goes. Our IT decommissioning is built around that: we de-rack, scan every asset and serial number, shred the drives on site and issue the certificate. It's run from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire, and London and Heathrow are covered.
An Anglo French investment bank, February and March 2023. Four racks decommissioned over two phased trips to Paris, with our HSM shredder on site and the equipment sent for WEEE recycling afterwards.
A data centre in Slough, April 2022. Eight racks decommissioned. A few hundred enterprise hard drives were scanned and shredded, the certificate was issued, and the kit went through ITAD with full WEEE certification.
A West London data centre, June 2023. 700 hard drives shredded on site.
A client's London data centre, November 2021. Over 500 hard drives shredded in the back of a van, scanned in first, with a certificate at the end.
A CDN client's suite in a London data centre, August 2024. 36 Dell 1U servers and a Juniper QFX decommissioned. In July 2024 we also decommissioned four large Juniper MX960 chassis and booked them into our warehouse management system.
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You tell us what's coming out, where it is and when we can have access. We survey the site if we're shredding in an office or a loading bay, and we write the RAMS.
We compile our own asset register, cross-reference it with yours, and remove any visible asset tags.
Servers and racks are powered down by your team, then our crew de-racks them. For heavy 4U servers we use an electric server lift.
Every data bearing device is scanned in by make, model and serial number with a handheld barcode scanner.
The drives are shredded on our HSM Powerline StoreEx HDS 150, in the back of one of our vehicles or inside your premises. Your witness can watch.
We issue the certificate of destruction before we leave. It lists the makes and serial numbers.
The rest of the equipment goes to reuse or WEEE recycling through our AATF partner, and the shredded waste goes to approved precious metal refiners. Nothing goes to landfill.
For a small quantity, we can degauss and puncture the drives on site and shred them at our facility instead. That's cheaper than bringing the shredder.
The rules differ by sector, but the questions an auditor asks are much the same: what was on it, where did it go, who handled it, and where's the proof? Our job is to give you records that answer all four.
NHS and hospitals. Drives can hold patient data, so serial level records matter. The same process applies whether it's one ward's PCs or a trust's server room.
Finance and insurance. Banks and insurers often want hard disk shredding done in their own building, with their own staff watching, and a certificate that lists every serial. We do that, and in 2023 we decommissioned racks for an investment bank in Paris.
Government and local authorities. The paperwork is usually the point. We give you a register, a certificate and the WEEE records, and you decide how they're filed.
Military and defence. These organisations set their own rules for who can handle their kit. Tell us what they are at the quote stage and we'll work to them.
Charities and NGOs. We've listed, destroyed and recycled a full lorry load of kit for a global charity: five people, three days, hard drives and LTO tapes destroyed and the rest WEEE recycled.
IT distributors and ITAD companies. We act as UK agent for two global ITAD companies and run UK ITAD for several EU clients, including customs, asset registers and WEEE.
Our waste carrier registration is upper tier, CBDU551195. We're ISO 9001:2015 certified. Cover is arranged for each job to the value of your equipment, up to £0.5m without referral, and our public liability is no less than £2 million.
Everything is on our accreditations page. Our crews are DBS checked, and the DBS, insurance and training pack index lists the paperwork.
In August 2024 we decommissioned 36 Dell 1U servers and a Juniper QFX for a CDN client, and booked them into our system for disposal.
In April 2022 we decommissioned eight racks, scanned the serial number of every enterprise drive and shredded them. The certificate was issued, and the equipment went through ITAD with WEEE certification.
In June 2023 we shredded 700 hard drives at a West London data centre.
Tell us what's coming out, where it is and when we can get in. We'll come back with questions or a quote.
It's taking IT equipment out of use in an orderly way: powering it down, removing it from racks or desks, recording what it is, destroying the data and sending the equipment for reuse or recycling. Done properly it ends with a certificate and a register.
Access arrangements, a survey, a register of every rack and server, de-racking, drive removal, destruction and a certificate. For heavy 4U servers we use an electric server lift. In February 2026 we de-racked dozens of 80kg servers from a London data centre that way.
Yes. Every drive is scanned in by make and serial number, destroyed, and listed on a certificate, so you can match it against your own register. See hard drive shredding services.
Yes. Hard drive shredding for a bank or an insurer usually means doing it in their building with their own people watching, and we do that. Our shredder runs from a 13 amp socket or from our 7kW generator in the back of a vehicle.
Yes. On one job the client's own client came to watch. In July 2025 a client watched us shred 700 devices in Wales from start to finish.
Yes, and the process is the same for all of them. The difference is the paperwork each one needs and the access rules on site, so tell us both when you ask for a quote. We've done charity work too, for a global charity.
Yes. We act as UK agent for two global ITAD companies, and we manage UK ITAD for several EU clients.
That includes customs, asset registers and WEEE. In August 2022 we captured the serial, model and origin of five pallets of servers and two racks, so an ITAD client could resell them in Europe.
We don't have a standard price. What moves it is the number of racks and servers, the number of drives, whether we shred on your site, how far we travel, and whether we have to de-rack or list the kit first. Send us the details and we'll quote.
Tell us what's coming out, where it is, and when we can get in.
We work from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire. Jobs in London, Surrey, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and across Europe all run from there, with our own crews.
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