Renault Group is dedicated to taking actions that assist cut back its carbon footprint. By utilizing HP IT Asset Disposition Service, the corporate’s end-of-use units are securely collected, sanitised, and restored or responsibly recycled by HP. Via these efforts, Renault Group is accelerating its sustainability targets and contributing in the direction of the round economic system.

2021 noticed the launch of ‘Renaulution’, Renault Group’s new strategic plan by which company social duty (CSR) and sustainability performed key roles. As international challenges mounted, Renault Group realised the necessity to progress its evolution in the direction of being a inexperienced and know-how pushed firm as shortly as potential. The corporate additionally realised that it needed to take a complete strategy to fulfill its commitments; consequently, the Renaulution technique covers the enterprise’s full worth chain.

From Spain, the IT division offers the know-how, structure, and companies in accordance with the Group’s requirements. The IT division recognized a number of strains of labor oriented in the direction of the goals outlined by the brand new plan. Particularly, one in every of them consists of figuring out round economic system initiatives inside their space of duty.

“At Renault Group we’ve got been working with HP for a number of years on quite a few IT companies. Via a world framework settlement, HP provides us with computer systems—EliteDesks, ProBook Notebooks, ZBook Workstations—in Spain by a leasing contract, in addition to printers and associated companies. The gear turned the duty of HP with the HP IT Asset Disposition Service,” feedback María Calderón, Contract Supervisor of Renault Group IT Division. “Because of this settlement we’ve got perceived a notable simplification in our operations.”

“When the final four-year laptop leasing contract expired, the gear turned the property of Renault. Each time we are able to, we donate gear in good situation by the Renault Group Basis in Spain, however on this event the amount was too excessive. We additionally had the choice of recycling them, however we had been satisfied that there was a greater resolution.”

Safety, efficacy and sustainability with consultants

When the time got here to refresh units with HP, Renault Group IT determined to rethink the way it offers with the accountable removing of outdated or end-of-use units. “We wished to dispose of an entire fleet of computer systems, and we had been in search of a approach to do it. Our warehouses had been full,” Calderón acknowledges. “We’d learn quite a bit concerning the round economic system within the press, and our Renault Group counterparts in different international locations had been additionally in search of options to comparable kinds of initiatives of their areas.

“We talked to HP and once we realised there was a service that our trusted supplier might give us; we didn’t have any doubts. We took benefit of the framework settlement and appeared for the most effective methods to companion with a round economic system knowledgeable like HP,” feedback Calderón.

The collaboration with HP made it potential to reply to a precedence for Renault: IT safety. The HP IT Asset Disposition Service is designed in such a method that it collects gear that’s already in use and treats it responsibly. Safety consultants render the info unreadable, utilizing deletion processes conforming to the requirements of the “Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how” (NIST). On this method, end-of-life units could be reconditioned or recycled in a accountable method, in order that the Renault Group can cut back its technological waste and its environmental impression.

“The gathering course of and all subsequent levels had been very properly documented,” explains Calderón. “From the outset, HP collaborated with us and bought concerned, guiding us, resolving any challenges, and clarifying processes. Every thing was quite simple and easy, regardless of delays and interruptions brought on by COVID-19 workplace shutdowns.”

A change of mindset and teamwork

HP IT Asset Disposition Service collected a complete of 1,067 units from 4 Renault Group Spanish facilities in Madrid, Palencia, Seville, and Valladolid. Of the units collected, 94% may very well be restored, selling the round economic system, and 6% had been responsibly recycled. Because of this undertaking, 175.3 metric tons of CO2 have been saved, equal to the carbon captured by 2,921 timber over 10 years [1].

“The report HP gave us is an instance of readability. It’s additionally very instructional, very visible, and simple for anybody to know,” feedback Calderón.

“It was particularly reassuring for our safety division to see licensed statuses for every machine – together with whether or not they had any issues, what they had been, and affirmation on the units that had been destroyed,” Calderón provides.

“We’re very happy with how your entire undertaking has developed. Along with HP, we’ve got planted a seed for future round economic system initiatives within the IT space in Spain.”

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