Why it matters
Remanufacturing
Recycling recovers metal. Remanufacturing keeps the engineering: a switch stays a switch, and a working component goes back to work.
Scrap is not waste. It is raw material.
The idea comes from a foundry. Finkelstein Metals, the family company of our founder, has made continuous-cast and extruded copper alloys from recycled metal since 1936. Scrap is raw material waiting for the right process.
T.E.S applies the same principle to electronics. Data-center hardware is often retired on a refresh schedule, while its boards, optics and chassis still have years of service left. We treat that equipment as raw material and build tested network hardware from it.
E-waste, 2022
A record year, mostly unrecycled
The world generated a record 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022. Only 22.3% was documented as properly collected and recycled.
What stays in service
A working part goes back to work
Equipment is split by part type and each part type has its own recovery lane. What still works is rebuilt into a new product, built to a customer’s work order and tested before it ships.
| Recovered | What happens to it |
|---|---|
| Boards and cards | Repaired and rebuilt. A card that cannot be repaired gives its working components to other cards. |
| Chassis | Taken from scrapped switches, metal-worked, finished and repainted. |
| Power supplies and fans | Refurbished and remanufactured. |
| Motherboards, CPUs and memory | Recovered for switches. |
| Cable and connectors | SFP, QSFP, QSFP56 and QSFP112, recovered from cable sent for recycling. |
What it means for you
Enterprise-grade networking, built to your specification, at a fraction of the cost of new equipment, from a supplier that can still build what the original maker has stopped making.
Every unit is tested before shipment.
