Ragn-Sells Group

What Ragn-Sells Group does

Ragn-Sells Group is a privately held, family-owned corporate group (Sellberg family, third generation) headquartered in Sollentuna, Sweden, with origins dating to 1881 and waste management operations since 1966. The company collects, treats, detoxifies, and recycles waste and residual products from households, businesses, and organisations across five countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, and Germany), operating 115 sites with 2,709 employees and treating 5.38 million tonnes of material annually. Revenue in 2025 was 9,120 MSEK.

The group is organised into three core business areas (Recycling, Treatment & Detox, and New Value Chains) plus the Ragn-Sells Recyclables trading unit, which coordinates group-wide sales of paper, plastics, scrap and metals, recycled wood and wood chips, waste fuel, and tyres. Treatment & Detox runs large permitted facilities that handle materials not clean enough for direct circular flow, including hazardous waste streams, with secure landfills serving as material banks. Ragn-Sells Recyclables handles approximately 1.5 million tonnes of recycled materials annually, selling to paper mills, plastics recyclers, smelting plants, and energy companies across Scandinavia, the Baltics, continental Europe, and Asia. The EasyMining subsidiary develops proprietary extraction and recycling technologies, including phosphorus recovery (Phosphorgewinnung Schkopau in Germany), representing the group's move up the value chain into advanced circular-resource technology.

Go-to-market is sales-led through country-level subsidiaries that serve local waste generators, with a group-level trading desk (Ragn-Sells Recyclables) monetising recovered materials into industrial offtake markets. Customers are diversified across industrial manufacturers (paper, plastics, metals, energy) and waste generators (households, businesses, municipalities). Competitive advantage is anchored in environmental permits, 60+ years of permitted-operations history, dense site and logistics infrastructure, and multi-generational brand equity; strategic direction is reinforced by the Ragnar Sellberg Foundation's research mandate and the New Value Chains business area's focus on substituting virgin raw materials with recycled inputs.

Name

Ragn-Sells Group

Legal name

Ragn-Sellsföretagen AB

Website

https://ragnsells.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1881

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Ragn-Sells Group is a family-owned Swedish waste management and recycling company operating 115 sites across five countries, collecting, treating, detoxifying, and recycling 5.38 million tonnes of material annually for households, businesses, and industrial offtakers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Sollentuna

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Material Sales and Trading: Ragn-Sells Recyclables sells material collected by the Ragn-Sells Group, handling six different material groups: paper, plastics, scrap and metals, recycled wood and wood chips, waste fuel, and tyres. Every year they handle roughly 1.5 million tonnes of recycled materials used as raw materials for industrial purposes or to produce energy. The company also purchases recycled waste products and has a large network of customers including paper mills, plastics factories, smelting plants, and energy companies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Ragn-Sells Group is a privately held family-owned corporate group that collects, treats, detoxifies, and recycles waste and residual products from businesses, organizations, and households, converting them into feedstock for new production processes. The group operates large treatment facilities with environmental permits, handles six material groups (paper, plastics, scrap and metals, recycled wood and wood chips, waste fuel, and tyres) through its trading arm Ragn-Sells Recyclables, and develops new circular value chains including phosphorus recovery via its EasyMining innovation subsidiary.

Product overview

Ragn-Sells Group is a privately held family-owned corporate group operating in waste management, environmental services, and recycling since 1966, with operations across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, and Germany. The company operates through three main business areas — Recycling, Treatment & Detox, and New Value Chains — all based on a circular economy rationale. The Recycling business area collects and recycles waste materials. The Treatment & Detox business area manages large treatment facilities for materials not clean enough for circular flow. The New Value Chains business area develops new recycling flows and cross-industry collaborations. Supporting these areas, Ragn-Sells Recyclables handles material sales and trading across six material groups: paper, plastics, scrap and metals, recycled wood and wood chips, waste fuel, and tyres. The innovation subsidiary EasyMining develops advanced recycling technologies including phosphorus recovery. The group handles approximately 1.5 million tonnes of recycled materials annually through Ragn-Sells Recyclables, and a total of 5.38 million tonnes across all operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• EasyMining: Ragn-Sells innovation company focused on extraction and recycling technologies
• Ragn-Sells Recyclables
• Ragn-Sells Tyre Recycling

Products and services

• Recycling Business area responsible for collecting materials with accurate quality, combining them with similar materials, and ensuring quality meets customer needs. Collects various materials and waste from customers and transforms them into new products through downstream disposal customers.
• Treatment & Detox Business area that manages large plants for treatment and detoxification of materials not clean enough for the circular flow. Handles large volumes and a wide variety of materials using proprietary processing techniques and established partnerships for external treatment or recycling. Landfills serve as final disposal or temporary storage for materials that will be usable in the future.
• New Value Chains Business area that develops new recycling flows and cross-industry collaborations. Enables new-to-the-world circular solutions by building value chains where recycled materials replace virgin raw materials. Serves as a collaboration partner for other industries seeking to utilise waste to replace virgin resources and reduce carbon footprint.
• Ragn-Sells Recyclables Business unit responsible for material sales and trading of six material groups — paper, plastics, scrap and metals, recycled wood and wood chips, waste fuel, and tyres for energy production. Coordinates sales of raw materials for the entire Ragn-Sells Group. Handles approximately 1.5 million tonnes of recycled materials annually that can be used as industrial raw materials or for energy production.
• Paper Recycling and Trading Ragn-Sells Recyclables sells paper for recycling to paper mills in Europe and Asia. Handles all sorts of paper qualities, with main volumes being OCC collected from companies, sorted graphic paper for de-inking, and printing mix from printing houses. Paper is sorted and baled at the company's own depots in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Estonia.
• Plastic Recycling and Trading Ragn-Sells Recyclables sells plastics to recyclers in Europe and Asia. Plastics are sold and transported from throughout the Ragn-Sells Group.
• Iron, Metal and WEEE Recycling Ragn-Sells handles approximately 150,000 tonnes of materials in the area of Iron, Metals, and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment).
• Wood Recycling and Trading Ragn-Sells Recyclables buys and sells wood and wood chips for further sorting and processing before selling to downstream customers.
• Waste Fuel Processing and Trading Ragn-Sells Recyclables processes and sells sorted waste and refined waste fuel for customers' installations according to specifications.
• Hazardous Waste Handling Ragn-Sells handles hazardous waste with extensive experience and proprietary processing techniques. Maintains a network of partners to offer environmentally sound and cost-effective handling, including oil regeneration, glycol purification, and lead battery recycling to 96 percent.
• Tyre Recycling Ragn-Sells collects and recycles all tyres in Norway on behalf of Norsk Dekkretur. More than 60,000 tonnes of tyres are collected each year in Norway, with 100 percent of recovered tonnage currently recycled. Tyres are used for material recycling, energy production, replacing materials, blasting mats, and infrastructure.
• EasyMining Innovation company within the Ragn-Sells Group focusing on advanced recycling technologies, including phosphorus recovery. Subsidiary companies include EasyMining Sweden AB, EasyMining Services Sweden AB, EMG EasyMining Germany GmbH, and Phosphorgewinnung Schkopau GmbH.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5.38 million tonnes of material treated annually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Saint-GobaincoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Partnership since 2022 with French-based glass manufacturer Saint-Gobain. Companies have been reclaiming glass from demolished or renovated buildings to be used in new windows and doors. Focus on ensuring quality from demolition/renovation site all the way to the producer.
• Norsk DekkreturcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRagn-Sells collects and recycles all tyres in Norway on behalf of Norsk Dekkretur. More than 60,000 tonnes of tyres are collected each year in Norway, with 100 percent of recovered tonnage currently recycled.
• Ragnar Sellberg FoundationcoreOthersAn independent entity that promotes research, development, and the dissemination of knowledge within the field of waste management through financial contributions. Named after the company's heritage.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Stena Recycling: Sweden-based recycling and environmental services company with operations across the Nordics. Closest direct competitor to Ragn-Sells with comparable collection, treatment, and material trading activities.
• Renewi: UK and Netherlands-listed waste-to-product company focused on recycling and material recovery. Comparable in business model emphasis on converting waste streams back into usable raw materials for industrial customers.
• Remondis: Germany-based family-owned waste management and recycling group with broad European footprint. Closely comparable business model combining collection, treatment, and material recovery at scale.
• FCC Environment: UK-based waste management and recycling business within the FCC Group. Comparable end-to-end municipal and commercial waste services with material recovery and energy-from-waste operations.
• Norsk Gjenvinning: Norway's largest recycling and environmental services company. Direct competitor in Ragn-Sells' home Nordic markets with overlapping collection, treatment, and recycling capabilities.

Others

• EasyMining (internal benchmarking via Processium / Veolia Phosphate): Listed separately because Ragn-Sells' EasyMining subsidiary operates in nutrient and critical material recovery, a space where Processium and Veolia's phosphorus initiatives are the closest peer technology programs.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia: Global environmental services giant operating across water, waste, and energy. Competes with Ragn-Sells in resource recovery and circular economy solutions but at vastly greater scale and geographic breadth.
• PreZero: Recycling and environmental services arm of the Schwarz Group (Lidl/Kaufland parent). Operates across Europe with comparable waste collection, sorting, and material recovery capabilities backed by a much larger retail parent.
• Suez: France-based global water and waste management group. Overlaps with Ragn-Sells in recycling, hazardous waste treatment, and material recovery but operates globally with much broader service portfolio.

Regional players

• Biffa: UK-listed integrated waste management business with collection, recycling, and energy-from-waste operations. Comparable business model focused on UK markets with similar emphasis on recycling economics.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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