Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD

In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland, positioning the company to handle the growing wave of hardware disposal from Dublin’s hyperscale data centre cluster.

When the servers that power Europe’s cloud infrastructure reach the end of their working lives, someone has to deal with them securely, compliantly, and in a way that keeps sensitive data from escaping and valuable materials from becoming waste. That task,  unglamorous, operationally demanding, and increasingly regulated, is the market Paladin EnviroTech is racing to own. On 7 April 2026, the Tampa-based company announced its acquisition of ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified IT asset disposition provider, closing a deal that brings its total investment across five acquisitions in nine months to $70 million (€60 million).

“ICT is a strong legacy organisation in ...