TBF Computing, Inc

TBF Computing, IncYour asset recovery experts

Contact informationphone : 678-485-2193

fax :770-578-3737

Does your warehouse or office storage look like this?

TBF Computing, Inc. pays top dollar for old equipment. We can come to your location and inventory your equipment, or you can send us an inventory list.

IT Equipment Buyouts

Our technicians are sent to your location(s) to de-install your computer equipment, and data centers; then we stage it and prepare it for shipment to our warehouse.

IT equipment De-Installation

TBF Computing, INC. is a nationwide service-provider, and specializes in working with companies that have multiple locations, no matter how many.

We use our own company trucks when servicing companies situated within a few hundred miles of Atlanta. For more-distant jobs, we use a network of freight logistics companies for pickup.

Fast Pickup and Logistics

Processing, sorting, and testing of your equipment is done at our warehouse in Marietta, Georgia. We test for functionality, repair equipment if needed, and break down scrap equipment. Everything is sorted and prepared for demanufacturing and resale.

Auditing, Testing & Repair

Our detailed inventory list of the equipment will contain each item's brand, model, serial number, asset tag number(s), and other necessary identifying information. We use a custom-made database program to inventory all incoming shipments.

A typical inventory list will include the following: ◦ Source - Pickup # - Date -Technician - Brand -

Serial # - asset tag # - model # - part # - cpu - memory

Complete Audit

As technicians process your equipment, they destroy your data. We use the same software that the Federal government uses to destroy hard-drive data.

All other magnetic media is shredded in a large 100-horsepower hydraulic shredder.

We provide you with our certificate of data destruction.

Data Destruction Guarantee

We re-market equipment to end users and wholesalers worldwide and sell on several different markets to get top dollar for your equipment.

Remarketing

We de-manufacture most scrap equipment at a facility in Marietta, GA.

Computers, printers, and monitors are broken down into their base components:◦ steel, aluminum, plastic, circuit board, glass, and

copper.

Recycling

We offer professional custom computer recycling and disposal for all size companies from small to Fortune 1000. Let us tailor a recycling and disposal plan that will meet your needs.

Contact us with your needs! Our professionals will devise a solution

to meet your needs, and give you a competitive bid.

Your old computer equipment is our business

Facility Information ◦ 1666 Roswell Road◦ Building 400◦ Marietta, GA 30062

Office hours ◦ Monday – Friday 8 am to 5 pm

Contact informationphone : 678-485-2193fax :770-578-3737

Facility Information

What types of materials do you accept?◦ Any and everything computer and electronics

related. What do you pay for my equipment?

◦ Send us an inventory list, and we will make you an offer. Our hope is to offer our services for FREE and or pay your company. We resell re-marketable equipment to help offset the cost of recycling the scrap.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens to my data?◦ Our data destruction procedures comply with

HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, The Patriot Act, and the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act. We will format all of your old hard drives with the same software that the Federal government uses on its computers. We use wipedrive to wipe hard drives. Defective hard drives are physically destroyed. We use an industrial shredder capable of shredding whole computers, printers, hard drivers, CD-ROMs, floppies, and tape cartridges.


Are you registered with the epa?◦ TBF Computing, INC. is registered with the

Georgia EPA as a computer recycler.◦ Our id # is GAR000051797

Do you have insurance?◦ We carry $2 million worth of business liability

insurance as well as business auto insurance and workers compensation.


What happens to the scrap and non remarketable equipment?◦ It is passed onto Molam in Marietta, GA who

dismantles all incoming equipment for separation of materials. Once enough of one material type is accumulated, a truckload is shipped off to a refinery, processor, or smelter. Molam receives equipment from the federal government and the EPA. Circuit boards are sent to a smelter who puts them through a chemical process to recover most of the precious metals. Some of the toxic metals are worth money if recovered.


CRT Monitors◦ Reusable monitors are shipped overseas to low

income countries who need our used equipment to join the information age. Scrap crt monitors are broken down into the individual materials. The glass itself is prepared into a smelter ready product in Marietta, GA by Molam. The glass cullet is sold to new CRT monitor manufacturers.

Power supplies◦ Power supplies are taken apart and some of the

components can be melted together to make parts for new capacitors and other electronic components.


Hard drives and magnetic media◦ All data is wiped or destroyed during processing.

Hard drives have a high aluminum content. Destroyed drives are recycled for their circuit board and aluminum. Wiped drives are resold on the market place.

LCD monitors◦ LCDs get reused or repaired if not broken, then

they are used for parts Plastic

◦ Plastic can be separated by type and melted down to form new pieces


Batteries◦ UPS batteries, laptop batteries and computer

batteries can be recycled. The batteries themselves are taken out of the units and are melted in a furnace in a process to make new batteries. The steel or plastic cases, cables, and circuit boards are all separated.

Printers◦ The majority of a printer is steel and plastic,

overseas they are taken apart or shredded to separate each base component - steel, wire, plastic, circuit board


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