Industries served
Healthcare, telecom, data centres, finance: which generator verticals a provider actually serves is one of the most useful things a directory can state, and one of the easiest to get wrong by guessing.
Healthcare and medical devices
4Hospitals, clinics, laboratories, diagnostic imaging and medical device manufacturers. Retiring equipment here carries patient data and regulated waste obligations at the same time.
Telecom
2Carriers, mobile operators, cable and fibre providers, and tower companies. Volume is driven by network refresh cycles rather than office refresh cycles.
Data centers
2Colocation providers, hyperscale operators and managed hosting. Decommissioning happens at rack and row scale, and chain of custody is usually contractual.
Finance
5Banks, insurers, payment processors, asset managers and exchanges. Retirement is governed by records retention rules as much as by hardware age.
Government and public sector
6Federal, state, provincial and municipal bodies, defence, and public agencies. Procurement is tendered and disposal is usually prescribed by policy.
Education
6Schools, colleges, universities and research institutes. Refresh is calendar driven, and reuse or donation is often preferred over recycling.
Retail
1Retail chains, grocery and e-commerce fulfilment. The estate is many small sites with point of sale, kiosk and back office equipment.
Manufacturing
0Discrete and process manufacturers, automotive, aerospace and heavy industry. Retired assets include plant and control systems as well as IT.
Energy and utilities
1Power generation, transmission and distribution, water, oil and gas. Field and substation equipment sits alongside corporate IT.
Hospitality
2Hotels, restaurants, venues, casinos and leisure operators. Guest facing technology refreshes on its own cycle, separate from back office IT.
SMB and general office
3Small and medium businesses and general commercial offices with no single dominant sector. The honest home for a provider that serves whoever is nearby.
Automotive
1Vehicle manufacturers, dealer groups, parts suppliers and fleet operators. Retiring diagnostic equipment, dealership back-office IT and in-vehicle telematics units puts customer finance records and connected-car data on the same disposal path as the hardware.
Legal
2Law firms, in-house counsel and litigation support providers. Retention schedules and privilege obligations mean disposal has to be certified and documented rather than merely done, which is why this sector buys destruction with a certificate rather than collection.
Real estate
1Commercial and residential agencies, property managers and REITs. Tenant files, mortgage paperwork and building access systems concentrate personal data in offices that turn over frequently, so disposal volume follows lease cycles rather than IT refresh cycles.
Insurance
1Carriers, brokers and claims administrators. Claim files combine medical, financial and identity data in one record, so retiring the systems that hold them carries several regulatory regimes at once.
A company is listed under an industry only where it states on its own website that it serves that industry, with the sentence saying so kept as the evidence. Nothing is inferred from a company name, a certification or a location, so a low count means the site has not been read yet rather than that nobody serves that sector. The eleven categories are a working vocabulary pending confirmation by the product team; the names may still change, the addresses of these pages will not.