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Sims Lifecycle Services

1600 Harvester Road West Chicago Illinois 60185 United States Phone: +1 630-231-6060 Send us an email

About This Location

SLS offers multiple disposition options for your end of life and obsolete IT assets and electronic equipment. We guarantee 100% digital data destruction for all computer assets and are trusted by regional, national and global companies to responsibly manage the disposition of their obsolete electronic assets per R2 requirements. Our experience will insure not only your data security but also environmental and legislative compliance.

Office Hours

Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Saturday – Sunday Closed

Facility Hours

Monday – Friday 6:00 am – 2:00 pm
Saturday – Sunday Closed

Notes

Appointment required for deliveries.

Please call (800) 270-8220 to schedule.

Receiving Appointment Required

Trucking companies are required to schedule appointment for plant deliveries. Please call (800) 270-8220 to schedule.

Special Directions:

Drop trailers are not allowed. Closed for break (7:45 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.) and lunch (12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.)

Safety

Safety is a core value at all our locations. You will find our facilities to be clean and run in an organized manner adhering to strict safety policies and procedure. In our daily activities, we embrace “think safe; work safe; home safe” for employees, customers, contractors and suppliers.

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Trust SLS for environmentally compliant and secure electronics reuse and recycling.  We provide cost effective and responsible services for disposing of retired IT assets.
All subcontractors and downstream vendors are fully audited to ensure a fully accountable chain-of-custody for our corporate customers.

Recycling Services

For companies who require all digital data to be destroyed before computer equipment leaves your facility. We come to your location. At your convenience. Meets local, national and global data security standards.  Certificates of data destruction provided.

On-Site Data Destruction Services

Data Center Services for Cloud Providers

Our capacity, advanced recycling, and resourceful resell capabilities have made us a preferred vendor for the largest cloud providers. We work in the largest data centers removing and reselling retired racks of servers and blades, systematically destroying hard drives and storage area networks. The financial return we offer, along with audit trails and quick turnaround of assets make us the preferred service provider for several cloud computing providers.

Decommissioning Modular Data Centers

Modular data centers are increasing in popularity as the demand for edge computing increases.

When these small data centers have outlived their useful life, SLS can play an important role in quickly and efficiently decommissioning them.

SLS is a business of Sims Metal Management (SMM), a leading global metal recycling company. Working together, we provide the agility and expertise needed to remove IT assets, servers, cabling, electrical and mechanical equipment when decommissioning these satellite data centers. SLS provides data destruction, resale and recycling of all IT equipment. SMM is fully equipped to support the heavy lifting, handling, transport and recycling of data center mechanical and electrical systems.

The list below shows major data center equipment that can be retired through SLS and SMM. Like SLS, SMM has operations globally.

IT Equipment Processed by SLS

  • Mainframes
  • Servers
  • Routers and switches
  • Telecommunication equipment
  • Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
  • Batteries
  • Cabling
  • Monitoring equipment
Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Processed by SMM

  • HVAC equipment
  • Diesel generators
  • Air Handlers
  • Containers
  • Server racks

All SLS facilities provide:

  • Corporate data center decommissioning
  • Cage cleanout at co-located data centers
  • Routine rack removal and hard drive destruction for mega data centers
  • Data destruction services including SAN removal, hard drive destruction and erasure. We also destroy data on backup tapes and flash media. Certificates of Data Destruction provided for all services. Data destruction services adhere to NIST 800-88 r1 guidelines.

Decommissioning Services

SLS offers a coordinated e-waste recycling and ITAD single solution with a high focus on data security, regulatory and corporate compliance, value recovery and sustainability.  We offer a solution for companies who operate globally to build a secure standardized program to manage compliant disposition of retired IT assets and e-waste.

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