HOBI International, Inc. was founded in February 1992 and later incorporated in the State of Illinois in September 1992 as a privately held corporation. HOBI maintains strict focus on the complete environmental disposition of post-consumption, manufacturing and mixed electronic surplus and scrap. HOBI pioneered a process for the disposition of electronics focused on maximizing economic return and the elimination of potential environmental liability. In 1994, in an effort to better serve nationwide contracts, HOBI expanded its operations to include a facility in Dallas, Texas, and opened a facility in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2012.

HOBI International is a full service R2, RIOS and WBE certified asset management/electronics recycling service provider with systems designed to maximize the client’s return on obsolete assets while minimizing the cost of processing. These systems include a custom designed data management system that allows HOBI to provide accurate and concise reporting on all aspects of material processing including logistics information, logistics costs, asset serialization and configuration, redeployment schedules, sales history, and scrap summaries. This system has been designed to handle the data tracking and reporting requirements of large, multi-sited corporations, government, educational and service organizations.

Presently, HOBI has established asset management service agreements with a number of Fortune 500 companies, leasing organizations, electronics manufacturers and medium to large users of electronics equipment.

Recently HOBI was named in Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant (MQ) of ITAD Vendors. The Gartner MQ is an independent analysis of the top ITAD vendors in North America. The report is available to our clients upon request. As HOBI is the only ITAD vendor in the MQ with a Six Sigma data security program for mobile devices, several of the ITAD vendors on the MQ use HOBI to process their mobile devices for data erasure and resale.

Parts Recovery

Demand for cellular parts and data recycling is st...