Precious Metal Recycling
Recycling is a critical step in the lifecycle of precious metals. It regains the financial value of the material and protects the environment by meeting demand from secondary sources.
The Recycling Process
Finding the right recycling process to maximize the return of your precious metals will help you drive your business.
As specialists in the processing of materials containing precious metals, Heraeus uses state-of-the-art technologies to pretreat, sample, and refine valuable materials and ensure high return rates. With extensive expertise and decades of experience, we provide many extras, such as expert logistics and professional waste management. Our core technological competencies lie in the following areas:
- Thermal pretreatment of materials and catalysts containing precious metals
- Sampling and analysis
- Precious metals recycling processes
- Logistics and waste management
Precious metals are indispensable in today's industry. They are used in semiconductors, in electronic components for the automotive industry, in LEDs and OLEDs, photovoltaic systems, magnetic data storage, passive components, and many other products. Apart from their important uses in final products, they are also integral to many production processes, for example as catalysts in the chemical or petrochemical industry.
Recovering Precious Metals – a Job for Specialists
Precious metal recycling involves a wide variety of starting materials. Recovering them likewise requires a wide variety of specialized expertise – and not just technological expertise. Precious metals are found all over the world and must be transported to a recycling partner. The goal is to make them available for reuse in the production process as quickly as possible – preferably even parallel to recycling. Above all, the yield should be maximized and sampling should be trustworthy and transparent.
Our advantages for you:
- Global locations
- Covering the value chain from trading to precious metals products to refining and recycling
- Local representatives in every major region for optimal logistics
- High creditworthiness
- Offers a wide variety of materials
- Advanced sampling equipment
- Expertise in matters relating to waste
- The latest technologies
All Services From a Single Source – Expertise Throughout the Precious Metals Cycle
As a precious metals recycling customer, you often focus on more than simply processing your materials containing precious metals. Once that is done, you may want to transfer or sell your recovered metal through your weight account. Or perhaps you need additional precious metal or precious metal components for your production – including an intelligent price hedging or financing model.
At Heraeus, you can get demand-oriented hedging or financing, short recycling times, and fast processing, all from a single source. We support you with logistics and transportation to offer a solution for the whole precious metal value chain.
We are nearby, no matter where in the world you are, to ensure that everything functions smoothly: With a total of eleven locations in Europe, China, India, North America, and South Africa, we have a presence in all of the major industrial regions and time zones.
Recycled Materials and Offered Services
myHeraeus
Be it recycling or trading, at work or on the road – the online platform myHeraeus.com helps to organize your workflows and keep track of everything.
