Debranding Obsolete inventory

Upcycle has handled debranding processes for corporate companies as a direct response to their Obsolete inventory solution and in so making sure that branded excess product avoids landfill.

There are usually so many branded products that are in excess at any given time, that because of the branding rights and protection of brands, these excess branded products go straight to landfill.

Branded products have established brand rights creating sensitivity in how they are handled for disposal. Companies have to be aware of how to dispose of damaged, recalled, or over-produced products as it follows regulatory compliance regarding brand protection rights.

Upcycle has been handling customised response obsolete inventory solutions for corporate gifting companies that have a variety of branded products. The diverse branding applications on various products need different debranding processes known as sanitisation.

The Research and Development (R&D) handling side of Upcycle innovation has managed to tweak the various processes of debranding on diverse products, and so too have established unique solutions to many branded products.

Upcycle’s business unit has a value chain of processes that stems from the client’s unique response solution and regard of strict sanitisation adherence.

Firstly, we consult on what the client requires in sanitisation for varied and specific products. The next step is to engage our diverse R&D team of designers and artists to process solutions to each product and prototype this process.

Our prototyping of each product provides process specifications to implement in the training of people for the development of new, debranded and sanitised products that are to be taken to market as a unique, upcycled product. The R&D team also includes identification of and how we support and market the product to create a return of income that in part will recoup the costs for the development process where possible.

For example, new excess high-quality jackets that require the debranding sanitisation process for branding attached onto the jackets, will first go through our contained R&D space. This is where the designers will decide if a panel with embroidered branding can be removed and sent to the sewing community initiative to patch in a new panel to complete a new jacket without branding.

The R&D is where labels are removed, and sanitisation processes are followed. After the jackets come out of the R&D innovation, they will be sent, debranded and sanitised, to the specific trained initiatives for upcycling into unbranded products.

Upcycle Creative also handles the destruction process of branded products that cannot be debranded and the creation of a totally new product that stems from the upcycling of the original.

Helping customers to remove their brand from obsolete inventory, we do things for example taking shopping bags, removing the branded part, and redesign and remake the rest of the bag into a new bag.

The piece of material that have branded, will be used for other things, where the brand is not visible, for example strapping, weaving or stuffing and more.

Rebranding obsolete inventory is a critical step. It ensures that no remnants of the original corporate branding remain, which is essential for companies that have updated their logos or promotional designs. Upcycle provides a destruction certificate to these corporations, guaranteeing that their branding materials are responsibly managed

For companies concerned about brand integrity, we provide a destruction certificate guaranteeing that branded materials will be responsibly managed and never reused in ways that could misrepresent the original brand.

For example, you are a printing house, and made a mistake with the products, instead of landfilling the misprinted items, you can partner with Upcycle, and together we can re-engineer the product, and give it a second life. This re-engineering of products, which were destined for landfill, can be someone’s income. Uplifting communities.

Companies might have stock, used for a promotional event, branded with their logo, obsolete inventory, can’t do anything with it, either went wrong in printing process or they have changed their logo, there is many reasons why companies have obsolete inventory and dont know what to do with the stock, as they don’t want their brand to get hurt, or misrepresented.

What we offer is that we have a standard operating procedure, we debrand everything. Even if some companies don’t necessarily expect us to debrand their items, we still debrand. We debrand to protect the original brand. Protecting their identity.

Type of obsolete inventory that companies donate, for example backpacks, we will debrand the backpack, depending on the design, will determine if we take the backpack apart and reuse the parts for different things, or redesign the backpack, we also use the packaging the backpack arrived in, and make plastic wallets from it. Everything is reengineered to something else,

Obsolete inventory books are recovered with beautiful bespoke fabric,

Buttons are reused for mosaic designs, zips are used for picture frames, plastic are fused to make wallets and bags, anything that comes our way, it becomes something,
offcut fabric becomes stuffing for cushions or dogbeds,

We invite people to partner with us to find a solution for your obsolete inventory. How we can help them.