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R&R now a WEEE Authorised Treatment Facility

R&R have been granted ‘Authorised Treatment Facility’ status by the Environment Agency, for it’s WEEE processing operation at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.

Compliance to the strict guidelines enforced by the Environment Agency, allows R&R to surpass competitor solutions and provide a complete and seamless "end-to-end" provision for all our customers.

- What this means for our customers -
Through the application of ‘Best Available Treatment, Recovery and Recycling Techniques’ (BATRRT), R&R can guarantee that our customer’s WEEE compliance requirements are met in full.

Full audit trail and Certification allow for complete product life cycle and cost control at one assured and accredited source. A credential that can be passed on and incorporated in any demanding SLA.

- What this means for the environment -
UK environmental regulators ‘NetRegs’ state that – ‘Electrical and electronic waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the UK. Around 1.8 million tonnes are generated every year.’

With R&R’s ‘Plastic to Fuel’ process, 0% of products crushed by R&R will end up in landfill. This can Results in a Carbon credit or offset and a Positive benefit in the form of fuel, no landfill.

For more information on WEEE and Plastic to Fuels

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Plastics To Fuel

R&R's Electronic Waste feeds Plastics-to-Fuel Plant in Singapore, goes live in Q3 2008

Crushed electronic waste processed at R&R's site in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire will supply the newly commissioned $50,000,00 Plastics–to-Fuel Plant in Singapore.

• Mixed waste plastic is fed to a reactor to be melted at 350 deg C.
  
• A special catalyst is added at controlled intervals, whereby a process called depolymerisation starts.;
  
• The catalyst 'cracks' the polymers of the waste plastic, producing three by-products: diesel, liquid petroleum gas and coke.
  
• The process takes an initial three hours to start up, after which waste plastic can be fed continuously into the reactor all day.
  

• The first phase of Enviro-Hub's plant will be able to take up to 100 tonnes of waste plastic a day.
  
• At 30,000 tonnes a year, the plant is expected to produce 20 million litres of diesel, four to five million kilograms of gas and 1,500 tonnes of coke.
  
• The plant will operate 330 days a year.
  

R&R will exclusively supply the Enviro-Hub/Cimelia process with Electronic Waste emanating from UK based IT Maintenance Organisations, Producers and OEM’s resulting in a Carbon credit or offset.

Steve Hodges commented, “ By contracting with R&R to supply E-Waste through the Plastics to Fuel process, customers are assured of full compliance with all environmental legislation and also that the waste produced will create a positive benefit in the form of fuel, no landfill, no loose ends”.

R&R & Cimelia Expand E-Waste Services in EU

R&R Group Services Ltd has signed a mutually exclusive contract with Singapore based Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd, a 100% owned subsidiary of Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd, to supply crushed IT and Electronic waste from the R&R e-Waste processing facility in Biggleswade, UK.

R&R’s core business is the global procurement and sourcing, refurbishment, kitting and repair of IT Multivendor spares for the IT Maintenance Market. Faced with the challenge to maximise value and minimise costs for customers when processing IT excess and surplus for recycling, the partnership between R&R and Cimelia creates a competitive advantage over other UK companies.

At its’ new Biggleswade Processing & Distribution Centre, R&R will use a Cimelia’s developed and supplied crusher capable of processing up to 1000Kgs per hour, the crushed material is containerised and shipped to Cimelia’s processing facility in Singapore where it will undergo treatment for the extraction of the ferrous, non ferrous and precious metal content. The plastic element of the waste will ultimately be the feed-stock for “Plastics to Fuel” process currently under development by Enviro-Hub Holding’s subsidiary “Enviro-Power Pte Ltd.

R&R is keen to provide customers with a seamless and compliant “end to end”, “cradle to grave” service without adding additional cost. By partnering with Cimelia, R&R now controls the sourcing, supply and recycling of all IT product and as an “AATF” will also be able to offer this service to Producers. 0% of product crushed by R&R will go to landfill, certification and audit trail will be provided to each customer. The benefit of now having this new resource is that R&R remains in control of the product cycle to and from the customer, this linked to inventory control and procurement allows stronger cost management and benefits to the customer.

Steve Hodges CEO of R&R Group Services said: ” as resource management is an essential part of being a competitive service provider , R&R now has all the essential “in house” portfolio of services to manage the complete cycle of IT Parts and Components in total compliance with all current legislation together with responsibility and cost control residing with one provider, a definite benefit to any company operating in the IT Maintenance sector”.

Mr Raymond Ng, Executive Chairman of Enviro-Hub said: “This is an exciting development for us. We are excited to be working in partnership with R&R Group and this attests to the strong corporate brand name that Cimelia currently enjoys in the global e-waste management and recycling industry and recognition of our abilities to offer ONE-STOP and Close the Loop electronic waste (“e-waste”) management services”.

Mr. Ansari, Director of Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd and the Person-in-charge of the Group’s Business Development said: “Together with R&R, we look forward to jointly develop compelling services to all our clients in this Electronic & Semiconductor Industry in Europe. “Significantly, this agreement also serves as a strategic launch pad for our geographic expansion, cementing Enviro-Hub’s vision to be a global brand in Total Environmental Management Solutions and Services.” Steve Hodges added.

About Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd

Cimelia was founded by a group of professionals and experts from the e-waste management and recycling industry. The core business includes provision of high quality, cost competitive e-waste management, base metal recycling, Platinum Group Metals refining and environmental consulting and management services to Multinational Corporations around the world. Cimelia operates its recycling facility in Singapore with approximately 200,000 sq. ft and it has a network of operations worldwide. The plant and the facility are recognized as the biggest E-waste recycling and PGM recovery/refining facility in Singapore.

Cimelia Resource Recovery Pte Ltd
No 3 Tuas Avenue 2
Singapore
639443
Tel: (+65) 6898 0808
Fax: (+65) 6898 0888
Email: info@cimeliaglobal.com

www.cimeliaglobal.com

About Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd

Enviro-Hub Holdings Ltd (“Enviro-Hub” or the “Group”) is listed in Singapore Stock Exchange (Main Board) and well known as one of the largest providers of Total Environmental Management Solutions & Services for the Global Electrical & Electronic Equipment industries. The Group provides a whole spectrum of services such as management and recycling of electronic waste (“e-waste”), extracting & refining Platinum Group Metals, melting and refining of copper, recovery and processing of ferrous & non-ferrous metals, recycling of engineering plastics, I.C. Tray management and conversion of waste plastic into liquid hydrocarbon fuel.

Enviro-Hub Holdings Limited
20 Gul Way
Singapore
629196
Tel: (+65) 6863 2100
Fax: (+65) 6861 2100
Email: info@enviro-hub.com

www.enviro-hub.com

R&R’s new Biggleswade premises

R&R’s new Biggleswade premises help to insure the future efficiency and effectiveness of its expanding Global provision of IT service parts and related logistics services.

Steve Hodges CEO said, “The new building gives R&R full scalability and flexibility to adapt to our customers growing outsourcing needs, in addition to which we now have a hi bay storage facility in Letchworth specifically to handle the management of customer surplus, excess and WEEE”.

R&R DMS opens its “data cleansing “ processing facility.

R&R Data Managed Services now boasts a data cleansing facility capable of erasing data on up to 5000 hard drives per week.

All data on working hard drives is wiped to comply with DOD 5220.22 and/or Infosec 5 standard and non functioning hard drives are degaussed to CESG standard.

The ability to be able to wipe hard drives in volume is becoming a resource in demand as companies with large data centres resell or redeploy large volumes of storage with confidential data present. Reconfiguration and testing of servers and RAID is also offered as part of the overall service.

Steve Hodges CEO of R&R Data Managed Services commented that, “ Clients have an ever increasing requirement for efficient, speedy and volume data erasure ensuring that any potential data leak has been closed, we believe we have the largest data erasure facility in Europe”.

R&R Data Managed Services Ltd has been awarded the CCT Mark for its “On Site” Secure Data Destruction service

R&R Data Managed Services Ltd has been awarded the CCT Mark for its “On Site” Secure Data Destruction service for data on magnetic media to comply with the CESG lower level degaussing standard.

The “On Site” Secure Data Destruction service enables compliance with the statutory duty to securely remove classified data from obsolete and surplus IT equipment and media.

The “On Site” Data Destruction service can be part of the quality and security policy of any organisation, enabling proof of compliance with security needs and current legislation.

Media can be safely recycled in an environmentally approved way to comply with statutory disposal requirements.

There is an existing and ever growing requirement for Assured Data Destruction of data held on all types of magnetic media, tape, hard drive, floppy disk, zip and jazz, audio and video tape whilst still within the customers secure environment, R&R’s “On Site” Data Destruction service now provides this secure compliant service.

R&R’s mobile Data Destruction unit can process data bearing media on the customer site, with representation if required, and the customer will receive a “Certificate of Destruction “ listing serial numbers of all items degaussed and also a “Certificate of Recycling” to confirm compliant disposal.

CCT Mark is a Cabinet office Assurance scheme run through CSIA. Information available through www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/csia . The CCT Mark is a government quality mark for information systems products and services which, through accredited independent testing, provides the public sector with confidence in the claims made by Vendors about the functionality of their information security products and services.

BBC Look East visits R&R Data Managed Services to help publicise the risks of Identity Theft

BBC Look East, visited R&R Data Managed Services site at Stotfold to report on the Joint Venture with Bedfordshire Police and Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity (BRCC) in publicising the risks of Identity Theft from discarded computer equipment.

R&R uses one of the most powerful degaussing units in the World to erase data, irrevocably, from all types of data storage media, hard drive, floppy, tape etc and also offers a unique on site data destruction solution for corporate and institutional users where confidential data is destroyed under supervision with all items recycled in full compliance with current legislation.

The report was aired on Monday 14th August.

Toshiba Chooses R&R Data Managed Services To Provide Data Recovery Solutions To Customers.

Toshiba's Computer Systems Division today announced that it has chosen R&R Data Managed Services to provide its customers with data recovery solutions and services. With 20 years experience of successful data recovery, R&R is able to offer Toshiba clients the best solutions to potentially disastrous data loss scenarios together with services to protect hard drive content vulnerable to human error, viruses, natural disasters and device failure.

"We see R&R as an innovative data management organisation with the flexibility and responsiveness needed to deliver a wide range of services around notebook users' most important asset - their data," said Gary Evans, Head of Services for Toshiba CSD. "Many users don't understand the real value of the data they store on their PC and everyone faces the risk of losing information at any time through malware, component failure or physical damage to their machines. We see more and more of our customers storing critical, valuable and sometimes priceless data, photos, music and video on their notebook PCs, and whilst we stress the importance of backing-up data regularly to avoid data loss, Toshiba, with R&R, can now extend a helping hand to users who suffer potentially disastrous hard drive damage and failure."

"By partnering with Toshiba, we are now able to provide superior data recovery services direct to one of the world's most trusted and reputable notebook manufacturer," said Bill Osborne, Sales & Marketing Director of R&R Data Managed Services. "R&R is leading the competition in terms of recovery success rates and recovery expertise and we will be helping Toshiba to become the only notebook manufacturer to widely offer data recovery services direct to the customer."