Arrow Electronics expands Dallas operations

Arrow Electronics Inc., Centennial, Colorado, has announced plans to expand the company’s Value Recovery operation in Dallas. The expansion, which is slated for completion this fall, will double the Dallas facility’s capacity to process the growing number of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices available for secure reuse or divestment, according to the company.

“Arrow’s Value Recovery business is expanding rapidly, and this growth is fueled in part by the proliferation of mobile devices within companies and organizations,” says Mark Majeske, president of Arrow’s global reverse logistics business. “Businesses today are finding that most mobile device trade-in services don’t offer secure data erasure or data liability—they turn to Arrow because we are the trusted and knowledgeable service provider in this space.”

According to independent information technology research and advisory firm Gartner Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, the majority of end-point data breaches will shift from personal computers to smartphones and tablets by 2017. A recent white paper published by Arrow’s Value Recovery group contends this shift will challenge the remote, application-based mobile-device data-erasure methods predominantly used today—creating enterprise-level data-destruction needs that Arrow says its Value Recovery group is equipped to address.

Arrow explains that its Value Recovery business works with its customers to securely refurbish computers, tablets, smartphones and other electronic devices for additional use, or repurpose their still-valuable component parts for other uses. Whenever possible, Arrow says the company emphasizes extending the life of these devices by selling them, redeploying them within organizations or donating them.

Arrow says its expanded Dallas facility will continue to meet the high standards of the company’s global compliance program as well as local, national and international standards for data security and environmental regulations, including the Asset Disposal and Security Alliance (ADISA); Responsible Recycling Practices (R2) certification, which is administered by SERI (Sustainable Electronics Recycling International), Boulder, Colorado; OHSAS 18001, which governs employee safety; and International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001 and 14001, which governs quality managemetn and environmental management systems, respectively.

Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. The company has a global network of more than 460 locations in 58 countries.

Arrow Electronics was profiled in the May/June 2014 issue of Storage & Destruction Business magazine and the June 2014 issue of Recycling Today magazine, Recycling Today Media Group Publications.