In the future, use of IT is expected to increase to make our world more efficient and effective, which means energy costs and amount of scrapped IT equipment will increase significantly. Gartner Group forecasts that energy costs will increase from 10% to 50% of IT budgets within few years. IT markets are expected long term annual growth rates of 4-10% in Nordic and Baltic countries. This will increase the sale of new equipment but it also means that the amount of used IT equipment to be recycled and reused will increase.
An increasing number of our customers already consider the environmental record of the supplier when conducting business as of today. Our intent is that Green IT should be of high priority of all customers in all countries and we as a supplier should support our customers to understand and increase their focus on Green IT and still have a satisfactory and high ROI (return on investment) on their IT investments.
Today the Ementor Group has a broad range of Green IT services and product offerings including analysis of customers’ IT infrastructure and environmental business cases and video conferencing, unified communication, virtualization, life cycle concepts and recycling. Atea Sweden, Atea Finland and Sonex Group already have ISO 14001 environmental certificates and Ementor Norway and Topnordic will implement this in the future.
“We believe that taking a corporate responsibility and increasing the environmental awareness are highly important for our own company as well as our customers and suppliers. We will therefore increase our efforts in promoting and advising customers in how IT can contribute to the environmental agenda across and beyond the business. Today many of our customers could save costs and reduce negative impact on the environment by using virtualization and unified communication, which can reduce power usage and travelling,” says CEO of Ementor ASA Claus Hougesen.
Ementor ASA has engaged a new director Claus Johansen (35) with responsibility for the new Green IT initiatives and the recycling business within the Group. Claus Johansen will be responsible for developing and selling Green IT offerings to customers, and he will be responsible for growing the recycling business in close cooperation with local organizations in all countries. Claus Johansen has experience as International Director of Progrator, CEO of Gatetrade, Director in Topnordic and Purchase Manager of Genplast.
“Green IT is a concept under development and we expect to see an increasing impact from this new concept within few years, and we have therefore engaged Claus Johansen, who has the drive, high energy and experience within IT required to make this a success for us and our customers in the future. I look forward to working with Claus again,” says Claus Hougesen.
Today Ementor Group has a recycling business unit in Växjö in Sweden, where 99.7% of all used IT equipment are recycled/reused meaning that only 0.3% of all equipment received is non-usable and is distributed for destruction. Ementor is today active within recycling within all Nordic countries under the brands Atea, Topnordic and Ementor. Major customers today are Posten AB, Dong Energy, Handelsbanken and Vestas.
Today the recycling business has revenue of approximately MNOK 25 and this business unit is expected to have a revenue potential of MNOK 200 in 2010.
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Claus Hougesen, CEO Ementor ASA, mobile
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