Diproinduca

What Diproinduca does

Diproinduca is a privately held Canadian industrial services company founded in 1984 by Efraín Riera and headquartered in Markham (Toronto), Canada, that converts industrial by-products into usable raw materials for the steel, oil, and mining sectors. Its core offering is built around two proprietary cold-briquetting technologies — Recycled Iron Briquettes (RiB), which recovers iron values from direct-reduction plant by-products for reintroduction into the DR reactor, and EcoBriq®, a registered trademark that briquettes oxide fines, mill scale, blast furnace dust, lime fines, C-scrap, and coke breeze into feedstock for blast furnaces and BOF steelmaking. Beyond briquetting, the company runs an integrated by-product recovery and recycling service that handles screening, crushing, magnetic separation, and multi-modal logistics (truck, rail, sea), a global trading desk for by-products and raw materials, a customized product development capability, and a soil remediation practice active across 50+ sites in 10+ countries.

The company monetizes across four revenue streams: (1) by-product disposal and sales, where it takes unwanted materials off clients' hands and pays them, generating transaction-based revenue on more than 1.5 million tonnes moved annually; (2) material management and logistics services on a professional services basis; (3) customized product development on a managed services basis; and (4) RiB technology equipment supply and engineering on a licensing/royalty and project basis. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales executed through a direct global office network spanning Canada, the United States, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, supplemented by strategic partnerships for specialized expertise; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001:2015 certified (Bureau Veritas), holds the EcoBriq® trademark, and remains founder-controlled with no disclosed external institutional or private equity backing.

Name

Diproinduca

Legal name

Diproinduca

Website

https://diproinduca.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Diproinduca is a privately held Canadian industrial services company founded in 1984 that recovers and recycles steel, iron, mining, and oil by-products into usable raw materials — primarily briquetted feedstock for blast furnace and direct-reduction steelmaking — and sells, trades, and transports more than 1.5 million tonnes of materials annually across 13 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Markham

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. By-Product Disposal and Sales: Diproinduca disposes of and sells more than 1.5 million tonnes of valuable by-products annually including pellet fines, DRI fines, sludge and dust, mill scale, and EAF & BOF slag. They take unwanted materials off clients' hands, put them to good use, and pay clients for them.
2. Material Management and Logistics Services: Services to handle raw materials, wastes, and by-products including screening, crushing, magnetic separation, and logistic services in trucking, train, or sea transport. Also includes domestic and international trading of by-products and raw materials.
3. Customized Product Development: Creating customized products through recycling or recovering by-products that would otherwise be deemed as waste. Produces EcoBriq, recovered scrap, concentrated C-scrap, recovered pellets, lumps, coke, and briquetted materials for steel and iron industry clients.
4. RiB Technology Equipment and Engineering: Providing state-of-the-art equipment supply and engineering services for RiB Technology, positioning the company as a market leader with complete solutions for reducing DRI production costs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Diproinduca converts industrial by-products from the steel, oil, and mining sectors into usable raw materials through proprietary briquetting and recycling technologies. The company recovers, processes, transports, and trades more than 1.5 million tonnes of by-products annually, producing recycled iron briquettes (RiB), EcoBriq feedstock, and customized alternative raw materials for blast furnace and electric arc furnace steelmaking.

Product overview

Diproinduca offers an integrated platform of industrial by-product management and alternative raw materials solutions for the steel, oil, and mining sectors. The core offerings include Recycled Iron Briquettes (RiB) for DR plant by-product recovery, EcoBriq® proprietary briquetting technology for Blast Furnace/BOF applications, By-Product Recovery & Recycling services, Management & Logistics handling, Global Trading partnerships, and Customized Product Development. These solutions work together to transform environmental liabilities into valuable resources, with the company disposing of and selling more than 1.5 million tonnes of valuable by-products annually. The company also leads in RiB Technology, providing state-of-the-art equipment supply and engineering services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EcoBriq®: Briquetting of by-products including oxide fines, mill scale, blast furnace dust, lime fines, C-scrap, coke breeze, and others to create a feedstock to be used in Blast Furnaces and/or BOF.

Products and services

• Recycled Iron Briquettes (RiB) Integrated cold briquetting solution that recovers iron values from direct reduction (DR) plant by-products and produces customized briquettes processed in the DR Reactor, substituting higher-cost pellets and reducing DRI production costs.
• EcoBriq® Proprietary briquetting technology that converts oxide fines, mill scale, blast furnace dust, lime fines, C-scrap, coke breeze, and other by-products into a feedstock for Blast Furnaces and/or BOF steelmaking.
• By-Product Recovery & Recycling Service offering that maximizes internal recycling of steel and iron by-products from both Blast Furnace (BOF) and Direct Reduction (EAF) routes, reducing raw material use, disposal, and logistics costs for steel mills.
• Management & Logistics Customized material handling and logistics service for raw materials, wastes, and by-products, including screening, crushing, magnetic separation, and transport via trucking, rail, or sea.
• Global Trading Global sourcing and trading service for by-products and raw materials, leveraging strategic partnerships and cross-border regulatory expertise to fulfill client needs worldwide.
• Customized Product Development Service that reclaims value from environmental liabilities by creating customized products through recycling or recovering by-products that would otherwise be wasted, producing cost-effective, eco-conscious materials.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1.5 million tonnes of by-products disposed and sold annually
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Voestalpine AG: Voestalpine is an integrated European steel and technology group with significant by-product valorization and circular economy initiatives, including slag reuse and waste heat recovery. Relevant as a steel industry customer/supplier and operator of by-product valorization technologies in adjacent scope to Diproinduca.
• ArcelorMittal: ArcelorMittal is the world's largest steel producer with major by-product and circular economy programs and in-house slag valorization. Comparable as a steel industry customer and reference point for scale of internal by-product management that competes with or contracts Diproinduca.

Broad incumbents

• Radius Recycling (formerly Schnitzer Steel Industries): Radius Recycling is one of North America's largest ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal recyclers with global trading operations. Comparable to Diproinduca in scrap collection, brokerage and trading but at significantly larger scale across both ferrous and nonferrous metals.
• Sims Limited: Sims Limited is a global metal recycling and electronics reuse company with operations across North America, UK, and Australasia. Overlaps with Diproinduca's by-product trading and global logistics footprint, though Sims operates at materially larger scale.
• EMR Group: EMR is one of the world's largest metal recyclers, operating ferrous and nonferrous scrap collection, processing, and international trading across Europe and North America. Comparable to Diproinduca's international trading and scrap brokerage activities but at significantly larger scale.

Regional players

• Metalico: Metalico is a US-focused scrap metal recycler and trader operating across the eastern United States. Comparable to Diproinduca's North American by-product trading activities but with a primary focus on non-ferrous scrap and limited international footprint.

Emerging players

• SteelPhalt UK: SteelPhalt manufactures asphalt products from steel slag (a steel mill by-product). Comparable to Diproinduca's customized product development approach of turning steel mill by-products into commercial downstream products, though focused on a single end-market.

Direct peers

• Phoenix Services: Phoenix Services is a leading provider of slag handling, metal recovery, and by-product management for the global steel industry. Closely aligned with Diproinduca's EcoBriq and RiB offerings in converting steel mill waste into usable feedstock.
• TMS International (formerly Tube City IMS): TMS International supplies slag processing, scrap management, and raw material services to steel mills worldwide. Directly comparable to Diproinduca in brokering and processing steel mill by-products across multiple geographies.
• Enviri Group (formerly Harsco Corporation): Enviri Group provides on-site by-product management, slag processing, and environmental solutions to global steel and metals producers. Closest direct comparable to Diproinduca in serving integrated and EAF steel mills with by-product recovery and valorization services.

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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