S2:E5 – Conrad Mohr, Circular Computing

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“It looks brand new!??” This is the response that today’s guest most often gets when a potential new client gets a sample of their used laptops to play around with and test. Seeing is believing and this has turned out to be very true in the world of remanufactured computers where one thought is to remanufacture a laptop so it looks brand new, another is to get people to believe in it. That is probably because people have an image in their head of dirty fingerprints, someone else’s hair and a broken screen when you mention “used IT” to them. But today, you’ll learn about “re-manufacturing” that could both save your company money on IT, save the planet valuable resources and give you used IT in mint condition. Meet Conrad Mohr, who is one of the founders of Circular Computing, a UK company that is leading the European re-manufacturing business. Re-manufacturing is an alternative to “new” and is an intensive industrial process, which means Circular Computing take large quantities of three-year-old laptops and remanufactures them in their facility after which they put it back out to the marketplace, or even to the same company. They have customers all over Europe who are saving between 20-40% on costs and get IT that performs better and is carbon neutral. A great example of the circular economy. You can hear that:

• Re-manufactured IT comes with the same warranty as new IT
• More companies become aware of the term re-manufacturing – it’s just not “business as usual yet”.
• Public Procurement will be an important part of making this change happen and why it is so
• The traditional OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers like Lenovo, Dell, HP) are all doing well in trying to be more sustainable, because the customers demand it

Mentioned in this episode:

• Conrad Mohr: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conradmohr/?originalSubdomain=uk
• Circular Computing: https://circularcomputing.com/
• BSI: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/
• Science Based Targets: https://sciencebasedtargets.org/
• CDP: https://www.cdp.net/en/
• RMA-rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_merchandise_authorization
• TCO: https://tcocertified.com/tco-certified
• Nexthink: https://www.nexthink.com/

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