Author: antonis

International Women’s Day raises awareness on the ongoing fight for gender equality. This year’s theme set by the United Nations is “DigitAll: innovation and technology for gender equality” which emphasizes on the role of technology in empowering women, but also highlights the need to ensure technology is inclusive and equitable.

A main argument that DigitALL is advocating, is to remove all barriers to access the digital world and, at BE Networks, we are proud to do so.

Unfortunately, women entrepreneurs around the globe experience severe inequalities as their access to funding is limited, leaving them with a reduced investment capacity in their business and a hard decision on where is more appropriate to spend their restricted resources. 

BE Networks’ refurbished network products & services can help an entrepreneur gain access to the digital world in several ways.

Firstly, they provide a cost-effective solution for obtaining network infrastructure that is necessary to set up a business. Purchasing brand new networking equipment can be expensive and can pose a significant barrier to entry.

Secondly, refurbished networking equipment can provide the necessary technology to establish an online presence for the business. This can include setting up a website, establishing social media accounts, and implementing an e-commerce platform. These digital tools can help the entrepreneur to reach a wider audience and increase their market share.

Finally, tested refurbished networking equipment can help ensure reliable and stable network connectivity, which is essential for running a business in today’s digital world. This can include routers, switches, and other networking components, all of which are essential for establishing a secure and efficient network infrastructure.

Overall, for establishing a digital presence and ensuring reliable connectivity, refurbished network products can help significantly reduce the CAPEX needed and break down the barriers to entry for women looking to establish and grow a business in the digital world.

Mechelen, February 24^th, 2023 – BE Networks NV welcomes SDG Capital as new majority shareholder.

SDG Capital is a young and dynamic private equity firm that only invests in companies that contribute directly to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This makes BE Networks and SDG Capital the perfect partners. Since 2008, BE Networks has been providing its customers (mostly ISP’s and System Integrators) with high quality preowned networking equipment, such as routers, switches and modules. The company operates on a global scale, smartly using a high-end test & refurbish process to extend the lifecycle of the equipment. Its services and business model support the circular economy by keeping the quality assets in use for much longer. The globally operating sales team is based in offices across Europe, Africa and South-East Asia. It advises worldwide customers on the strategic use of preowned parts, thereby significantly reducing lead times, CAPEX, and CO2 emissions compared to new products.

Sustainability in business

The exponential need for faster and more secure internet forces businesses to continuously upgrade their network infrastructure, which often results in premature decommissioning of equipment. As the importance of sustainability in business grows, business leaders worldwide are actively looking for new ways to reach sustainability goals. BE Networks helps its customers to transition from a linear equipment lifecycle into a circular one, while measuring and reporting on the achieved CO2 avoidance. Since most CO2 emissions of the product life cycle come from the production of the equipment (and production of the necessary raw materials), organizations that buy pre-owned networking equipment are actively helping to create a sustainable future.

Network Expertise

BE Networks specializes in network- & datacenter equipment specifically. Its knowledgeable consultants support customers in determining what type of preowned equipment can be used and how to integrate it within an existing network configuration. For years, BE Networks has been a preferred supplier of refurbished networking equipment to its customers and their system integrators of choice.

Thomas Helsen, Managing Director at BE Networks NV: “We have been active in this market for well over 10 years now. During that time, I have seen the attention to sustainability strongly increase. More and more organizations are now mindful and keen to deploy pre-owned networking equipment instead of new. I am proud that BE Networks can help on both the supply and sell side: we unburden large corporates and institutions by responsibly and securely decommissioning networking equipment, while providing our customers with high quality refurbished equipment that helps them realize their sustainability goals. Our new, state-of-the-art facility in The Netherlands will serve as blueprint for operations around the world. The addition of new sales offices in the Netherlands and Morocco and a joint venture in Singapore with a leading distributor in the APAC region has significantly increased our global reach. Our next goal is to add more services and products to our portfolio and become a true leader in the circular economy of networking and datacenter equipment. We are very pleased and excited to have SDG Capital on board to help us achieve our goals.”

Arjan Snijders, Founder and Partner at SDG Capital: ”We are impressed by the growth mindset of BE Networks’ management and employees. The company is setting the new sustainability standards in the industry of pre-owned networking equipment. We are thrilled that the BE Networks team places its trust in us to advance the company together. BE Networks is a great example of a “net positive” company with the potential to grow fast, both organically and via follow-on acquisitions. We are proud to provide our capital and operational skills to invest towards a true circular and sustainable economy.”
Read more at www.sdgcapital.nl

Sustainable movement is not a sprint, it’s a marathon and we finished this year’s goals on time!

Our 2022 new year’s resolutions came full circle right at the end of the year and we are thrilled that we enter a fresh year able to minimize our carbon footprint by 25.000 kgs per year.

How do we do it? It’s simple:

• All employee cars can only be plug-in hybrid or 100% electric.
• External meetings have been reduced and turned “green”.
• Approximately 30% of our business travel has been replaced by digital meetings.

The 25.000 kgs of CO2 we save from the atmosphere per year is the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of five households!

BE Networks. Better for Everyone.

Yet another BE Networks New Year’s Resolution has been achieved and we steadily progress towards the completion of our sustainability plan.

Staying true to our goals, today we are more than happy to inform you that we massively decreased the volume of packaging materials of our orders, but we also switched to the exclusive use of bio-friendly substances for every step of our refurbishment process.

This is what we accomplished:

• We save more than 200kgs of PVC per year
  
• We stop using toxic substances such as quaternary ammonium compounds, acetone, and xylene
  
• We eliminate the release of fluorocarbons
  
• We save more than 1000kgs of CO2 per year from the atmosphere

All you have to do is to join our movement!

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