One Large Facility
Processor EPC has consolidated its business operations from two separate U.S. facilities and established a larger, more efficient location in South Carolina. Additionally, its new site boasts a footprint that is twice the size of the previous locations combined.
“The reality is that most businesses don’t want to pay to have antiquated equipment shipped very far. Therefore, it makes good business sense to continue to expand our geographic footprint in the United States and globally,” Dan Fuller, EPC’s president and founder, explained in a press release.
In an announcement made on January 16th, EPC, the IT asset disposition (ITAD) subsidiary of CSI Leasing, a global device leasing company, revealed the opening of the new processing location in Columbia, S.C. Spanning 205,000 square feet, this massive facility will streamline operations that were previously split between a smaller Atlanta site measuring 64,000 square feet and a separate 30,000-square-foot location also in Columbia, S.C.
According to Rachel Fick, the senior vice president of global marketing for CSI, the newly established facility is expected to eventually employ over 100 individuals and officially opened on December 1st, 2023.
“Once fully staffed, the new facility will be able to handle twice the amount of assets compared to the other two facilities combined,” Fick disclosed to E-Scrap News.
A Growing Need for ITAD Services
With the introduction of the facility, EPC has expressed its commitment to adapting and expanding in order to meet the growing need for ITAD services. This surge in demand includes services like warehousing, staging, imaging, redeployment, data destruction, and recycling. This increase in overall volume is driven by the need to accommodate both CSI’s leased devices as well as non-leased devices handled by EPC.
In 2019, EPC unveiled its Atlanta location, which quickly became the company’s most expansive facility beyond its Missouri site. Within the past five years, EPC has experienced significant growth, establishing new sites within the United States and expanding its reach to various locations worldwide. In addition to its self-owned facilities, EPC has also formed a collaborative network of partnering facilities known as its “vendor network.”
“The very first and most obvious advantage to a partnership approach to doing ITAD for your customers is that it’s cost preventative,” David Carite, director of global ITAD at EPC, said. “I don’t have to build out and maintain a facility in Tokyo, because a trusted, contracted reciprocal partner is doing that work for us.”
In the mid-1990s, the company, originally established as a computer retailer back in 1984, ventured into the realm of used device resale.
“With this new, larger facility, we are able to better accommodate our customers’ demand for services beyond traditional ITAD, which is typically data destruction, remarketing and recycling,” Pat Laughlin, the CEO of EPC, concluded. “EPC provides these essential disposal services along with several other critical solutions that help our customers manage a complete IT lifecycle strategy. Our goal has always been to ease the burdens associated with managing an efficient IT program, and this new larger facility will help EPC deliver.”
