Customer Profile: A global operational database and data platform provider for enterprise and AI applications, with offices including Manchester, UK.

Solution: ATI generates over $60K in recovery value from retired IT assets that their Manchester office had written off as worthless — with full data destruction handled before any resale.

Outcome:

• Client recovers over $60K in value from retired IT equipment previously destined for disposal.
• All devices are securely wiped and confirmed data-free before remarketing, eliminating any data security risk.
• Recovery income flows directly to the bottom line, as the assets weren’t expected to carry resale value
• ATI establishes a recovery channel the customer can reuse for future refresh cycles across its global offices.

Challenge

As part of a routine equipment refresh, the Manchester, UK office of a global database platform provider was retiring a batch of aging IT assets. With no clear sense of remaining market value, the equipment was being thrown away rather than resold — treated as scrap rather than an asset with any residual worth.

Solution

Advanced Technologies International (ATI) engaged with the Manchester team to assess the full scope of the retiring equipment before it was discarded. Every device was securely wiped and verified data-destroyed before any resale step began, ensuring no data risk carried through the process. From there, ATI drew on its secondary-market network to identify resale value the client hadn’t accounted for and managed the rest of the process — competitive purchase offers and pickup logistics — with no added effort on the client’s side.

Outcome

The engagement recovered over $60,000 in value from equipment the company had already written off as worthless, with data security fully verified at every device before remarketing. What was headed for the scrap pile instead became recovered value, securely and compliantly, and the customer now has a straightforward path to capture that value on future retirements.

“Too many teams default to throwing away retired hardware because no one’s told them it’s still worth something. We wiped and verified every device before it ever went back to market, then turned our customer’s write-off pile into real recovered value — with zero extra lift or risk on their end.”

– Mikhail Mukhi, COO