Zak Enterprises specializes in developing Electronic Recycling programs for Corporations and Educational Facilities Nationwide to recycle old or excess electronic equipment. We also have expertise in inventory and asset liquidation providing a full range of services from logistics to sales. Zak Enterprises' proven track record, coupled with our large warehouses, company owned trucks, and our attention to detail make us the clear choice for electronic recycling and liquidation

• Full Tear Down and Dismantling of Assemblies

• Destruction of Sensitive Customer Boards and Assemblies

• DTSC Approved Transporting and Handling of e-waste including CRT Monitors and Test Equipment

• Excess Inventory Re-Marketing

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The majority of the materials our customers are interested in recycling of are in finished goods form. Whether these goods are complete computer systems, medical equipment, file servers, laptops, printers, or networking switches, they have to go through some form of low level tear down before being introduced into the proper recycling or e-waste stream. All disassembly is done in house by our trained staff who then sorts the material according to its individual properties.

Typical material recovered from recycling of assemblies include, plastic, clean metal, wire, printed circuit boards, Integrated Circuits, and Disk Drives. Plastic, metal and wire are separated in to different bins which are then recycled in to raw material for reuse. Printed circuit boards, such as graphics cards, sound cards, and modems are then tested and made available for reuse whenever possible. Printed circuit boards that cannot be reused are then subjected to an environmentally friendly smelting process where precious metals are extracted for future reuse. Integrated circuits such as CPU’s and memory find a wide range of applications and are excellent targets to fit in to other products. Disk drives while excellent targets for reuse are also a potential liability for our customers if not processed properly. Disk drives are magnetic media that store customer confidential information as well as employee personal information. If this information is extracted from the disk drive and this information falls in to the wrong hands there is potential liability for our customers.

While the disassembly and sorting process is rather straight forward, the correct processing of the disk drive units is complicated and time consuming but is a step that must not be skipped or overlooked. Zak Enterprises has a secure part of our facility dedicated solely to proper disk drive wipe processing ensuring our customers that 100% of all disk drives entering our facility go through a full disk wipe processand are clean of all information. This process is not simply “erasing” or “formatting” the drives, this is not sufficient, as there are numerous tools available to recover “lost” data on disk drives. The Department of Defense has published guidelines to wipe magnetic media to guarantee that all data previously contained on that magnetic media is gone forever, this specification is DOD5220.22-M. This specification requires that every single location on a hard disk drive is written to three individual times, once with all zeroes to clear the drive, a second time with all 1’s to set every bit in the drive, then a third time with random data to make sure there is no lingering pattern. After the three write cycles the new contents are verified to make sure that the desired pattern indeed resides on the drive and the previous data was not somehow “burned” in to the memory.  As you can imagine this drive wipe process is very time consuming sometimes taking over an hour for each disk drive but it is absolutely necessary and cannot be compromised. We have invested in the facilities and equipment to handle a very large volume of disk drives because it is strategically important to our customers.