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| (Press Release) Document Shredding Firm Eases Storage Space Deficit |
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1/19/2007 - Contact
Michael Milillo at 516-431-5484
Or Sean Fredricks at 212-219-8999
Document Shredding Firm Eases Storage Space Deficit
While Increasing Corporate Security
New York, NY – With property values at an all-time high and real estate prices at a premium, New York metro area businesses are feeling the pinch when it comes to availability of affordable warehouse space for archived documents. Many are turning to document digitization as a solution, but what to do with all that paperwork containing sensitive customer data when it’s no longer needed?
Enter Code Shred, a growing force in secure document handling in New York, Westchester, New Jersey and Connecticut. The two-year-old firm, a proud member of the National Association for Information Destruction, offers an array of services that can be tailored to the needs of varying sized companies in diverse fields, as well as to those of home offices and residential customers.
Every business that collects and stores customer data is required by law to secure that information from unauthorized access. Federal legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996, the Gramm-Leach-Billey Act of 1999 (GLB), and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) of 2003 set out the details of these requirements.
These laws were passed to help protect businesses and their clients from identity theft and its resulting fraud and legal liability. However, according to Code Shred president Michael Milillo, it takes a high level of vigilance and a sound, proactive security policy to give the legislation any real traction.
“Only by establishing and enforcing strong, practical internal security measures will businesses be able to protect their clients from fraud and themselves from massive liability suits,” posits the young entrepreneur from his Long Island corporate headquarters.
One element of such a policy is the employment of professional document handling and disposal services that include shredding and recycling of paper documents. Large concerns that generate huge volumes of paper and require end-to-end visual confirmation usually use on-site shredding services.
Mobile shredding brings the service to the customer in the form of large trucks with industrial capacity shredding machines on board. This option works well for companies whose documents are of a more sensitive nature, and whose provenance (chain of handling) must be observable by an authorized customer representative. The shredding usually occurs on a pre-scheduled basis under this option.
Code Shred has added to its fleet of mobile shredding trucks a ShredTech 35GT Mobile Unit. This new unit can accommodate ten tons of paper, doubling the service capacity of their other trucks.
“We’re very pleased to be able to offer the timely convenience of our high-volume mobile unit. It’s ideal for our larger corporate customers, whose security policies require that their documents never leave their premises,” says Milillo.
The rapidly growing company is proud of the new truck, believing it represents a new standard in processing speed and volume, saving their customers time and money. The truck holds 12,000 lbs. of paper, and its burly shredder can shred 8,000 lbs. of paper per hour—that’s the equivalent of ten banker’s boxes every three minutes.
The truck, lately seen at some of New York’s most well known businesses, automatically picks up a bin that holds the content of ten standard boxes and dumps it into the shredder’s hungry maw. Two truck-mounted cameras feed images of the process to an outside monitor, allowing customers to view it all from curbside and providing them the satisfaction of a job securely completed.
Although Code Shred offers both on-site and off-site shredding, large firms uncomfortable with allowing any of their documents to leave their buildings choose the on-site option. It’s also an excellent solution for those whose paper volume is consistently high, requiring ongoing daily, weekly or monthly document destruction. This service requires dedicated floor space for shredding equipment, which is provided free of charge by Code Shred.
The company offers accountability and peace of mind to clients in the form of an official Certificate of Document Destruction for their fully processed papers. The certificate serves as proof of compliance with privacy laws.
Code Shred provides added security by seeing the shredded paper byproduct to its final destination at a professionally run recycling facility. “Not only does recycling the shredded byproduct help assure that the documents can never be read again, it also helps our environment by replacing virgin timber with post-consumer waste in the manufacture of paper goods,” observes Sean Fredricks, Vice President of Sales at Code Shred.
Those interested in learning more about Code Shred may visit the company’s website at www.codeshred.com, or call company president Michael Milillo at 516-431-5484.
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