Elemental Catalyst Europe
  • Toll refiner
  • Own ICP-OES laboratory

The highest payout
for spent catalysts.

Your catalysts go to our refinery, not a trader's stockpile.

Own ICP-OES labs, transparent payable % settlement, payout within 24h, logistics handled by us.

No obligation · reply within one working day

We're not a scrapyard. We're a processing plant with our own ICP-OES laboratory and decanning line. The catalysts you entrust to us go straight into platinum-group metal recovery with no chain of middlemen taking your margin. Every batch means a confirmed assay, a transparent settlement formula, and payment with no hidden deductions.

Catalyst processing
at plant scale

  • 4,200

    tonnes of catalysts / year

  • 18

    years on the market

  • ICP-OES

    own laboratory

  • 9

    European countries

How it works

From batch submission
to payout in seven steps

Your payout is the metal value from the confirmed assay, multiplied by the payable % — the share of recovered metal we pay you — less the disclosed processing fees.

Everything is on the report; nothing is hidden.

Intake hall
Step 1 of 7
Services

We recover every type
of catalyst material

Ceramic and metallic carriers, DPF filters and lambda sensors — we handle all of it. Each type goes through the same precise assay, so no fraction of your material's PGM value is left on the table.

Ceramic converters

Almost all of your lot's value sits in the ceramic honeycomb, not in the shell.

The carrier holds the platinum, palladium and rhodium. We decan, mill and homogenise every batch before it reaches the ICP-OES, so the grade you are paid on is the grade the material actually holds, not a visual estimate.

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Metallic converters and lambda sensors

Steel-bodied material is routinely called "difficult" and bought at a flat rate.

Both types run through the same preparation route in our plant — mechanical separation before assay — and settle on the same disclosed payable % as ceramic. Collect your sensors alongside the converters: one lot, one report, no separate minimum.

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DPF and SCR filters

A per-piece price on diesel filters almost always works against you.

The platinum and palladium sit at lower grades spread through a loaded carrier, so the piece tells you nothing about the content. We prepare and homogenise the substrate before assay and settle it by content, on the same report as the rest of your batch.

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Industrial catalysts

Spent process catalysts vary too much between batches for a flat rate to be fair.

Material from refining, chemical and petrochemical plants carries platinum, palladium, rhodium and often ruthenium on alumina, silica or carbon carriers. Every lot is dried, milled and homogenised before the ICP-OES, and settled on the metals it actually holds.

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PGM concentrates

Concentrates arrive with a grade already attached to them, which is precisely why it should be verified.

We sample and assay each delivery against your own figures, with an umpire procedure written into the agreement if the two diverge. Settlement runs on the same disclosed payable % as every other stream we take.

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Mining material with PGM content

Low grade across a large tonnage means the whole case rests on representative sampling.

Tailings, slags, furnace residues and flue dust still hold platinum group metals. We take the sample at volume, homogenise it and assay it before any price is discussed — then settle on content, not on tonnage.

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Bond to the
region…

If you supply 500 kg of catalysts or more, wherever you collect in Europe there is a group plant, lab or trading desk close to you.

We run processing sites and advanced laboratories in every key European region, and we handle the logistics end to end. Transport, sampling, processing, settlement. What sets us apart is what comes next: your material goes to our own refinery in Zawiercie, inside the Group.

No third-party middlemen, no lost margin, one standard from collection to payout.

Group presence in Europe

Select a country.

Europe
Our performance

Your man in Europe, and the record behind him.

Testimonials

"When you promise something, you deliver. That reliability is rare in this industry."

Abdul, Australia

We're not a scrapyard. We're a processing plant with our own ICP-OES laboratory and decanning line. The catalysts you entrust to us go straight into platinum-group metal recovery — with no chain of middlemen taking your margin. Every batch means a confirmed assay, a transparent settlement formula, and payment with no hidden deductions.

Recykling Australia

Abdul

CEO

Compliance & documentation

Fully legal, fully documented

  • Legal, licensed trade
  • Waste shipment documents
  • Cashless settlement
  • Full origin documentation
  • GDPR-compliant data handling
  • Certified weighing & sampling

Local legal note (swap per country): [e.g. "UK: compliance with the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013."]

Contact us

Start with a batch.
Stay for the terms.

Four fields is all it takes. Your dedicated account manager replies within one working day with an indicative valuation, payable % and advance terms — in your language, from your region.

Get a transparent settlement

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