Ragn-Sells
Ragn-Sells is a Swedish family-owned environmental services company founded in 1881 that converts waste into clean raw materials across 5 countries, serving industrial, municipal, and commercial real estate customers with collection, treatment, recycling, and circular economy solutions including the Reboost building reuse platform.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1881
- HeadquartersSollentuna, Sweden
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Ragn-Sells does
Ragn-Sells is a Swedish family-owned environmental services group founded in 1881, headquartered in Sollentuna, Sweden, with operations across five countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia) and over 2,700 employees as of 2025. The company converts waste into clean raw materials for circular economy applications, serving industrial firms, municipalities, commercial property developers, and the construction sector. FY2025 revenue was 9.12 billion SEK, up from 8.8B SEK in 2024 and 8.5B SEK in 2023. Core revenue streams are service-based waste collection, treatment, detoxification, and recycling, with growing circular economy streams including flat glass recycling (Sweden's first facility in Örebro at 10 tonnes/hour), solvent recycling (SRS facility at Högbytorp with >20,000 tonnes/year capacity), EV battery collection (via the three-year Hydrovolt partnership), and the Reboost building material reuse platform (~4,600 sqm across Kista and Solna hubs).
The company's technology base rests on subsidiary EasyMining, which holds proprietary nutrient recovery processes: Ash2Phos recovers phosphorus from incinerated sewage sludge producing calcium phosphate, iron coagulants, quartz sand, and aluminum, with the first commercial plant under construction in Schkopau, Germany; Aqua2N recovers >95% of nitrogen from sewage sludge without nitrous oxide emissions. Additional capabilities include the SELPAXT technology (partnered with Chromafora) removing PFAS to 90%, an internal web-GIS system using drone-derived 3D terrain models for facility planning, the What a Waste! e-learning platform (Publishingpriset 2025 winner), and the optical sorting technology at the Örebro flat glass facility. The company is actively shaping EU circular economy legislation via a Brussels office established in 2023 and CEO participation in the Clean Industrial Dialogue on Circularity.
Ragn-Sells' go-to-market is sales-led B2B with direct sales teams, key account managers, on-site environmental staff (City Services model), and the Reboost membership-based digital platform for construction clients. Named enterprise customers include Castellum, AMF Fastigheter, Catena, Fabege, Corem, Atrium Ljungberg, and Skandia Fastigheter. The company is privately held by the Sellberg family (3rd and 4th generation), has received Dun & Bradstreet's highest creditworthiness rating for 2026, and is not backed by venture capital or private equity. Strategic priorities include a commitment to avoid at least 2 million tonnes of CO2e emissions annually by 2030 through circular solutions.
Ragn-Sells firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Ragn-Sells
- Legal name
- Ragn-Sells AB
- Website
- https://ragnsells.se
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1881
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Ragn-Sells is a Swedish family-owned environmental services company founded in 1881 that converts waste into clean raw materials across 5 countries, serving industrial, municipal, and commercial real estate customers with collection, treatment, recycling, and circular economy solutions including the Reboost building reuse platform.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Ragn-Sells industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Waste Management and Recycling Services
- NAICS
- Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622), Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211)
- SIC
- Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Compactor, Container & Roll-off Services (Rental, Service & Logistics) (EUAIAGAC)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Roll-Off / Containerized MSW Collection (Commercial & Industrial) (EUAIAAAD), Special Waste Transfer (Tires, Mattresses, Appliances) (BPALABAG), Universal Waste Management (Batteries, Lamps, Mercury-Containing) (BPALAHAL)
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Where Ragn-Sells is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Sollentuna
- HQ country
- Sweden
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices13 records
Markets served
Ragn-Sells business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Waste Management and Collection Services: Core revenue from collecting, treating, and processing waste from commercial, industrial, and municipal customers. Services include hazardous waste handling, recycling, treatment, and detoxification. Revenue reported as 8.5 billion SEK in 2023 and 8.8 billion SEK in 2024.
- Circular Economy Solutions and Recycling: Revenue from specialized circular solutions including flat glass recycling, building material reuse (Reboost), EV battery management, and nutrient recovery. These represent growing revenue streams tied to the circular economy transition.
- Treatment and Detoxification Services: Revenue from treatment facilities handling hazardous waste, solvents, and materials requiring specialist processing. Includes facilities such as Högbytorp treatment plant and the solvent recycling plant (SRS).
Go-to-market motion2 records
Distribution channels6 records
Marketing channels10 records
Ragn-Sells product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Ragn-Sells collects, transports, treats, detoxifies, and recycles waste for industrial, commercial, and municipal customers, converting waste streams into clean raw materials for circular economy applications. The company operates treatment plants, recycling facilities, building-material reuse hubs, and digital platforms, and delivers proprietary nutrient-recovery, flat-glass recycling, and solvent recycling services across multiple Nordic and Baltic markets.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Reboost™ återbruk: A membership-based service for quality-assured reused construction products, combining a digital platform with physical reuse hubs for the construction and real estate industry.
- City Services
- Planglas (Flat Glass) Recycling
- EasyMining
Products and services
- Industrial and Hazardous Waste Collection, Treatment and Detoxification End-to-end collection, transport, treatment and detoxification of hazardous, industrial, and municipal waste streams for industrial companies, municipalities and public-sector customers. Includes incineration-ash processing, solvent handling, and recycling operations at multiple owned facilities.
- Reboost: Building Material Reuse Platform and Hubs Membership-based digital platform combined with physical reuse hubs (Kista ~2,600 sqm and Solna ~2,000 sqm — combined Sweden's largest reuse hub ~4,600 sqm) where construction and real-estate firms list, browse, reserve and purchase quality-assured reclaimed building products, with project-level invoicing and CO2e savings statistics.
- Flat Glass Recycling (Planglas) Sweden's first flat-glass recycling facility in Örebro with optical sorting technology that separates glass by color and quality at up to 10 tonnes per hour, supplying Saint-Gobain for new flat-glass production. Pre-treatment facilities in Västerås, Göteborg, Stockholm, and Umeå feed the Örebro line.
- SRS Solvent Recycling Solutions (Högbytorp) New solvent treatment facility at Högbytorp with annual capacity of over 20,000 tonnes of solvents. Distillation and purification restore solvents to original quality for reuse, reducing CO2 emissions by up to 87% compared to fossil virgin solvents.
- EV Battery Collection and Logistics Service (with Hydrovolt) Three-year partnership-enabled collection, intermediate storage, and transport service for end-of-life electric-vehicle batteries from Ragn-Sells' export hubs in Sweden to Hydrovolt's recycling facility in Fredrikstad, Norway, supporting the build-out of a circular battery value chain.
- EasyMining Nutrient Recovery (Ash2Phos and Aqua2N) EasyMining (Ragn-Sells' innovation subsidiary) develops and licenses nutrient-recovery processes: Ash2Phos recovers phosphorus, iron coagulants, quartz sand and aluminum from incinerated sewage sludge; Aqua2N recovers over 95% of nitrogen into ammonium sulfate fertilizer with no harmful nitrous oxide emissions. The first commercial Ash2Phos plant in Schkopau, Germany is under construction and will be fully carbon-neutral.
- City Services for Commercial Properties and Shopping Centers Integrated on-site waste-management service for shopping centers and office properties, with trained environmental staff performing collection, sorting, weighing and per-tenant statistics/reporting. Includes plus services such as unpacking and moving assistance. Lifted Nova Lund's sorting rate from 40% to over 70% within one year.
- Insect Protein Production from Food Waste (Orsa) Demonstration facility at Orsa using black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) to convert food waste into animal-feed protein, a circular input for the agricultural/feed sector.
- Ragn-Sells Kundportal (Customer Portal) Online customer portal enabling ordering of container delivery, pickup and removal, plus access to service statistics and invoices. Used as a self-serve entry point by customers across Sweden.
Quantifiable outcome
- Up to 2 million tonnes CO2e avoided per year by 2030 through Ragn-Sells' circular solutions
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Companies that use Ragn-Sells
Customer profileNamed customers8 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Ragn-Sells technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature7 records
Ragn-Sells partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
17 partnerships are on record, tiered core, supporting and minor.
- FabegecoreFabege's reuse hub in Solna Business Park (approximately 2,000 sqm) was acquired by Ragn-Sells Reboost in April 2026. Fabege becomes a member of Reboost and contributes experience from three years of building up reuse operations. Combined with Kista hub, forms Sweden's largest building reuse hub.
- HydrovoltcoreThree-year partnership for collection, intermediate storage, and transport of end-of-life electric vehicle batteries in Sweden. Ragn-Sells routes collected batteries from its export hubs to Hydrovolt's recycling facility in Fredrikstad, Norway. Both companies describe the collaboration as an important step toward sustainable battery management and building a circular battery value chain in Sweden.
- CatenacoreLogistics property company that joined Reboost as the third member in January 2026. Catena sees potential in working with reuse at scale in connection with construction projects and tenant adaptations. They contribute to the ecosystem to help drive the industry transition.
- LearnwayssupportingLearnways collaborated with Ragn-Sells to develop the What a Waste! e-learning platform, which won Publishingpriset 2025 in the education category. Learnways is a digital education agency that helped create the interactive modules.
- CastellumcoreFounding member of the Reboost circular construction initiative. Castellum contributes to building volume and efficiency in building material reuse. Views reuse as an integral part of the future construction industry.
- AMF FastighetercoreMember of the Reboost circular construction initiative. AMF Fastigheter has set targets of minimum 10% reused/recycled/renewable materials in 2025 building projects, rising to 40% by 2030, aligned with their climate roadmap.
- Saint-GobainsupportingSaint-Gobain receives processed flat glass from Ragn-Sells' Örebro facility for use in new flat glass production. Ragn-Sells separates glass by color and quality using optical sorting technology, and Saint-Gobain processes it into new flat glass at their German plant.
- ChromaforasupportingChromafora's SELPAXT technology was highlighted at Ragn-Sells/UNEP COP29 seminar as a solution for removing PFAS ('forever chemicals') to 90% where substances are most concentrated, upstream from conventional treatment plants.
- UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)supportingUNEP co-organized the COP29 seminar 'From wastewater treatment plants to resource recovery plants' with Ragn-Sells. UNEP's Deputy Director Bruno Pozzi emphasized integrating resource recovery into countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
- Friesen Group of CompaniessupportingIn 2023, Ragn-Sells established a partnership with Friesen Group for sustainable agriculture, with the ambition to sell recycled phosphorus as a circular nutrient to Canada. This partnership showcases Ragn-Sells' innovative technology solving a global challenge.
- Alfa LavalcorePartnership between EasyMining (Ragn-Sells' innovation company) and Alfa Laval to scale up Ash2Phos technology globally. Alfa Laval provides separation technologies and heat exchangers. Thanks to Alfa Laval's innovations, the first Ash2Phos plant in Schkopau, Germany will be fully carbon-neutral in operation.
- ISO 59000 Standard DevelopmentsupportingProfessor Mattias Lindahl of Linköping University, who played a key role in developing the new ISO 59000 circular economy standard, spoke at Ragn-Sells' Framtidsdagen. ISO 59000 provides guidance and definitions for circular economy principles.
- Ragnar Sellbergs Stiftelse (Ragnar Sellberg Foundation)supportingIndependent foundation promoting research, development, and dissemination of knowledge in waste management through financial grants. Funds doctoral positions, student thesis projects, and Framtidsdagen annual seminar. Supports Ehsan Moslehi's PhD research on phosphorus recovery.
- Skandia FastighetersupportingRagn-Sells provides City Services to Nova shopping center in Lund, owned by Skandia Fastigheter. Within one year, sorting rate increased from 40% to over 70%. Ragn-Sells staff are stationed on-site providing waste collection, sorting, and reporting services.
- CoremsupportingProperty owner that hosts the shared waste coordination hub in Globen Shopping garage. Partner in Ragn-Sells' City Services solution for the Globen and Slakthusområdet area, contributing to smarter logistics and reduced heavy transport.
- Atrium LjungbergsupportingProperty developer and planning partner in the Slakthusområdet collaboration with Ragn-Sells. Atrium Ljungberg participated in the planning process alongside architects, consultants, and Ragn-Sells to create the shared logistics solution.
- Toyota Material HandlingminorReferenced by Professor Mattias Lindahl at Ragn-Sells Framtidsdagen as a model for circular business model transformation — shifting from selling forklifts to renting fleets of trucks, then refurbishing and reselling returned equipment.
Scale indicators13 records
Recent moves13 records
Expansion highlights7 records
Ragn-Sells competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Biffa plc: UK waste collection, recycling, and treatment company with similar municipal, commercial, and industrial customer mix. Direct comparable in waste-collection-led circular services.
- PreZero (Schwarz Group): Recycling and environmental services arm of the Schwarz Group, operating across Europe with focus on circular materials recovery and resource efficiency. Comparable in proprietary recycling technology and pan-European growth ambitions.
- Renewi plc: UK- and Netherlands-listed recycling and waste management specialist focused on converting waste into secondary raw materials. Highly comparable circular-economy positioning and similar revenue scale (~£1.7B).
- Stericycle: US-listed specialist in regulated and hazardous waste management (sharps, pharmaceutical, medical waste). Closely comparable in specialist waste treatment, detoxification, and permit-driven business model.
- Stena Recycling: Sweden-based recycling and circular materials company operating across the Nordics, with overlapping services in industrial waste collection, metals recycling, and circular materials trading. Most direct Nordic comparable to Ragn-Sells' core recycling and waste management business.
- Norsk Gjenvinning: Norway's largest waste and recycling company, operating collection, sorting, and treatment services with strong industrial and hazardous waste exposure. Geographic peer serving the same Nordic/Baltic customer base.
Broad incumbents
- SUEZ: Global water and waste management group with strong European recycling and circular-economy footprint. Competes with Ragn-Sells for industrial and municipal contracts and EU circular-economy mandates.
- Veolia Environnement: Global leader in environmental services (water, waste, energy) operating across dozens of countries with vastly larger balance sheet and EU policy influence. Major competitive incumbent and possible consolidator in Nordic waste markets.
- Remondis: Germany's largest family-owned waste and recycling company, operating globally with deep water, recycling, and industrial services. Most direct European incumbent comparable in terms of family-ownership scale and circular-economy breadth.
- FCC Environment: European waste management and environmental services arm of FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas), serving municipal and industrial customers across the UK, Spain, and Central Europe. Comparable incumbent scale and service breadth.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat7 records
Key risks7 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Ragn-Sells social profiles
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Ragn-Sells leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles19 records
Ragn-Sells subsidiaries and ownership
Company hierarchySubsidiaries1 record
Ragn-Sells funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Ragn-Sells M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Ragn-Sells
What does Ragn-Sells do?
Ragn-Sells collects, transports, treats, detoxifies, and recycles waste for industrial, commercial, and municipal customers, converting waste streams into clean raw materials for circular economy applications. The company operates treatment plants, recycling facilities, building-material reuse hubs, and digital platforms, and delivers proprietary nutrient-recovery, flat-glass recycling, and solvent recycling services across multiple Nordic and Baltic markets.
Is Ragn-Sells a public or private company?
Ragn-Sells is a private company. It is classified as family owned and is currently operating.
When was Ragn-Sells founded?
Ragn-Sells was founded in 1881. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Ragn-Sells based?
Ragn-Sells is headquartered in Sollentuna, Sweden, in the Europe region.
How does Ragn-Sells make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Waste Management and Collection Services are the primary driver. The others are circular Economy Solutions and Recycling and treatment and Detoxification Services.
Who are Ragn-Sells's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Biffa plc, PreZero (Schwarz Group), Renewi plc, Stericycle, Stena Recycling and Norsk Gjenvinning. Broad incumbents are SUEZ, Veolia Environnement, Remondis and FCC Environment.
Does Ragn-Sells have an API?
No public API is recorded for Ragn-Sells.
What industry is Ragn-Sells in?
Ragn-Sells's product category is Waste Management and Recycling Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is EUAIAGAC, Compactor, Container & Roll-off Services (Rental, Service & Logistics), with a secondary code of EUAIAAAD, Roll-Off / Containerized MSW Collection (Commercial & Industrial). Its NAICS code is 562111 and its SIC code is 4953.