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Technology & Engineering

December 17, 2025

Raising throughput on a high-volume automation line

On high volume electronics programs, the smoothness of an automation line has a direct impact on everything around it. If the line hesitates, operators feel it. If the flow backs up, quality teams feel it. Customers eventually feel it too. This is why our engineering teams pay close attention to the small details that make these lines run well.  […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

How an R&D team in Northern Europe is changing the way devices move through our network

There is a moment in every returns program where a device first meets a technician. The technician looks it over, checks its condition, notes damage, and decides what should happen next. That moment shapes everything that follows. The more consistent it is, the better the outcomes for the customer and the clearer the path for […]

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Technology & Engineering

December 10, 2025

How OCR is cleaning up a messy part of the returns process

At one of our high-volume laptop programs, a simple task was slowing everything down.  Every unit that arrived on site needed its serial number checked against a shipping pre alert. On paper, that is straightforward. In reality, it meant people leaning over boxes, reading tiny fonts, keying long alphanumeric strings into a system, and trying […]

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Automated cosmetic grading is no longer optional
Technology & Engineering

November 17, 2025

Automated cosmetic grading is no longer optional

How one global electronics company solved a growing inspection bottleneck.  Cosmetic inspection has always been a difficult part of hardware recovery. Some devices are simple to check. Others have angles, lenses, seams, coatings, and surfaces that hide flaws until they show up in the next customer’s hands. As device designs become more complex, manual inspection becomes […]

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Server recycling process from risk to recovery
Data Center

October 3, 2025

Server recycling process from risk to recovery

Strip a server down and you’ll find the same things every time: processors, DIMMs, GPUs, boards, power supplies, storage. None of it is waste until you decide to treat it like waste. The server recycling process is about making those decisions in the right order. Disassembly with intent, not demolition by default.  Handled well, the […]

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Engineering a Second Life for Keyboards
ITAD

September 16, 2025

Engineering a Second Life for Keyboards

When a leading global OEM needed a way to reuse existing keyboard inventory originally marked for one market, they turned to Reconext for a solution. The challenge was to convert the keyboards for a different language layout and avoid scrapping valuable stock. Our engineering teams in Europe and Mexicali worked together to design a process […]

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The precision paradox Why the future of recovery means less human intervention, not more
Technology & Engineering

June 10, 2025

The precision paradox

Why the future of recovery means less human intervention, not more Aivar Elbrecht is engineering our company toward a future where human intervention becomes minimal, and he’s completely fine with that. “No matter what I was doing and where I was working, I’d be committed to this vision… of creating a better, more sustainable future.” […]

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What our machines can’t see
Technology & Engineering

June 5, 2025

What our machines can’t see

Inside the quiet failure loop costing us billions in repairable tech Last year one global electronics repair line wrote off more than tens million dollars in parts. Business as usual, unfortunately, in the world of global oems. We decided to follow the money.  Most of it fell through one gap: machines that still grade hardware […]

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