Supporting a secure office closure and move
Customer Success Stories
A global pharmaceutical company needed to close and move from a 11,500 m2 office building during the start of the pandemic.

With only three months to vacate the space, limited facility access due to local restrictions, and a significant amount of dated records, IT assets, and employee belongings, the company turned to Iron Mountain Clean Start for help.
Industry
Life Sciences
Challenge
- Closing a 11,500 m2 office, with over 1,000 employees
- Building filled with sensitive documents, IT assets, and personal employee items, with limited space at new facility
- Executing project during pandemic with minimal labour support
Solution
Outcome
- Secure destruction of over 36 tons of documents
- Bulk and itemised destruction of obsolete IT assets
- Itemised, packed, and moved over 500 employee workstations
- Labour resources to support on-time project completion
Clean start walkthrough and assessment performed and identified:
- 22m+ documents in filing cabinets, shelves, and boxes
- Over 1,700 pieces of equipment, furniture, and IT assets needing temporary storage, relocation, or disposal
- Opportunity to digitise and destroy documents and transition to a paperless future at the new location
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