Shields History

Gordon identifies spent chloroplatinic acid and spent gold cyanide solution being thrown down the drain by an electronics business. He knew that all the noble metals had value and convinced the client to save the spent solutions. He recovers £76,000 worth of precious metals and returns the majority of it to the client – creating one of the first environmental business cases – the client no longer threw the materials down the drain – good for the environment and the client made money which is good for business.

Shields then became dedicated to helping clients minimize their impacts on the Environment.

This project became Europe’s biggest environmental project of the 1980’s and 1990’s and Shields processes were used to ensure environmental issues were effectively managed and minimized.

At this time Shields creates software that includes an audit trail and environmental Balance Sheet – the first environmental risk management tool – ensuring clients could prove that they were environmentally responsible and minimized their impact on the environment. This software has continually been developed by Shields and still provides risk management for its clients today – the major telecoms networks of the world. Shields also returned over £90m worth of recycling value from this project.

Shields enhances its portfolio of services for telecom infrastructure operators by adding Redeployment to the  ReSale and Recycling streams (helping operators to deliver large OPEX and CAPEX savings).

Simultaneously adding global test labs to ensure quality and customisation of cabinet builds.

Shields grows its services division in the USA installing the newest generation of wireless technology.

Shields installs some of the first 5G network sites in the world for Verizon in 2017 in Sacramento, California.