IT asset disposition firm Iron Mountain received and processed 79 million assets throughout 2024, of which 17% were remarketed for reuse.
The New Hampshire-headquartered data management company in late November published figures detailing its electronics processing activities last year, including total volume and how assets were handled.
Iron Mountain provides ITAD and electronics recycling services through its asset lifecycle management division, and the company operates 28 ITAD locations across eight countries. Those facilities perform “every stage of asset disposition,” the company wrote in its recent report. That includes logistics, chain-of-custody, data sanitization, device decommissioning, remarketing and physical recycling.
Of the 79 million electronic assets Iron Mountain handled last year, the company remarketed 13.9 million, or 17%. The reuse volume included 5 million circuit boards or other chips; 4.3 million memory units; 2 million hard drives; 600,000 central processing units (CPUs) or graphics processing units (GPUs); 500,000 laptops or desktop computers; 300,000 peripheral devices such as keyboards or mice; 2 million servers; and 1 million “other” components.
Iron Mountain estimates it generated $227 million in remarketing revenue by reusing instead of shredding those materials.
Apart from reuse, Iron Mountain recycled 119 million pounds of end-of-life electronics.
Iron Mountain has grown quickly in the ITAD space, primarily through significant acquisitions over the past decade. The company launched its ITAD division in 2016. It acquired ITRenew in 2022; Regency Technologies, Australian ITAD firm APCD, and Irish-headquartered Wisetek in 2024; and Premier Surplus and ACT Logistics in 2025.
