What WEEECycling does

WEEECycling is a privately held French environmental-industrial firm headquartered in Tourville-les-Ifs, Normandy, that provides end-to-end recycling and refining of precious and strategic metals from electrical and electronic waste (WEEE) and industrial residues. Founded in 2019 by Serge KIMBEL as a follow-on to his 2008 venture MORPHOSIS, the company operates through two wholly-owned subsidiaries — Weee EA, which performs mechanical separation to prepare waste for refining, and Weee Refining, which applies proprietary thermal oxidation-reduction, chemical separation, and electrorefining processes to extract and purify metals. The integrated pipeline accepts heterogeneous waste streams in any form (liquid, solid, mixed) from 0.02 per mille traces up to multi-container industrial lots, and outputs high-purity metals and derivatives (shots, anodes, salts, solutions) meeting strict technical specifications.

The company serves enterprise B2B customers across at least six verticals: electronics and electrical OEMs, aeronautics/aerospace/defense/security (ASDS), chemical-pharmaceutical-catalyst producers, electroplating and surface treatment, watchmaking/jewelry/goldsmithing, and mirror/photography manufacturing. It holds Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) Step 5 compliance for 2025, a published Responsible Supply Chain Policy, and affiliation with the NAE (Normandie AéroEspace) network since 2019, allowing it to handle sensitive, confidential, and defense-grade materials.

WEEECycling monetizes through professional services (sampling, analysis, process validation, yield simulation), sale of recycled metals and semi-finished products, custom metal transformation to client specifications, managed circular-economy solutions that close production loops for strategic resources, and reverse-logistics coordination via its Morphosis partner network. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company claims a 98%+ reduction in carbon footprint and 1,500–2,000x lower energy consumption and CO2 emissions versus primary mining, a positioning aligned with EU Critical Raw Materials and CBAM regulatory tailwinds.

Name

WEEECycling

Legal name

WeeeCycling

Website

https://weeecycling.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

WEEECycling is a French industrial recycler that refines precious and strategic metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, plus Ni, Co, Li) from electronic and industrial waste for B2B clients in electronics, aerospace, defense, chemical, electroplating, and jewelry sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Precious Metal Recycling

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211), Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393), Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622)

SIC

Secondary Smelting & Refining Of Nonferrous Metals (3341), Primary Smelting & Refining Of Nonferrous Metals (3330), Hazardous Waste Management (4955), Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

E-Waste & Electronics Metal Recovery (ITAD, Circuit Boards, Precious Metal Recovery) (IMAKAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

E-Waste (WEEE) Collection, Refurbishment & Recycling (IMAIAFAH), Catalytic Converter Recycling & Precious Metals Recovery (PGM) (EUAIAJAG), Material Reuse & Upcycling Services (Non-recycling Transformation) (EUAIANAJ), Metals Recycling & Processing (Ferrous/Non-Ferrous) (BPALADAF)

Keywords

• Precious metal recycling
• Electronic waste recycling
• Circular economy services
• Metal refining services
• WEEE recycling

Headquarters

HQ city

Tourville-les-ifs

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Precious Metal Recycling Services: Full-service recycling of all waste containing precious metals including sampling, analysis, production test batches, process validation, yield simulations, and complete logistics and legal document management.
2. Metal Transformation to Specifications: Transform extracted and refined precious metals into finished products according to customer production criteria and technical specifications. Products include shots, anodes, salts, solutions.
3. Sale of Recycled Metals and Semi-finished Products: Production and sale of fine metals and derivatives from WEEE waste and industrial residues. Metals transformed into new products meeting strictest technical specifications in terms of impurities, marketed as high-quality range from totally recycled materials.
4. Circular Economy Solutions: Creating closed loops in customer production for strategic resources. Includes mass balance evaluation, quality determination at re-injection point, waste analysis, unsold stock analysis, and implementation support.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

WEEECycling provides end-to-end precious and strategic metal recycling services from electronic waste (WEEE) and industrial residues. The company extracts, refines, and transforms precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium) into high-purity recycled forms (shots, anodes, salts, solutions) using proprietary thermal oxidation-reduction and chemical separation processes. It also offers closed-loop circular economy solutions, reverse logistics, laboratory analysis, and traceability reporting for industrial clients globally.

Product overview

WEEECycling operates as a platform of two distinct but complementary entities: Weee EA (mechanical waste preparation) and Weee Refining (thermal and chemical metal refining), unified by a suite of circular-economy services. The company offers end-to-end precious and strategic metal recycling from WEEE and industrial waste — covering reverse logistics, laboratory sampling, thermal/chemical refining, metal transformation to customer specifications, and sale of recycled metal products (gold, silver, platinum, palladium compounds in various forms). The two entities function as an integrated pipeline: Weee EA mechanically prepares waste which Weee Refining then processes through thermal oxidation-reduction and chemical separation to produce high-purity recycled metals for resale or reinjection into customers' production loops.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Weee EA: Social purpose enterprise which prepares waste for refining by mechanical separation technique
• Weee Refining

Products and services

• A-to-Z Precious Metal Waste Recycling End-to-end management of precious metal waste for industrial clients, including on-site sampling, waste analysis, production test batch evaluation, process validation, yield simulations, reverse logistics, legal document management, traceability, and environmental reporting (eqCO2). Designed for industrial customers across electronics, aerospace, defense, electroplating, chemical, and jewelry sectors.
• Circular Economy Services Closed-loop solutions that transform customers' precious and rare metal residues into high-purity recycled metals reinjectable into their own production processes, reducing carbon footprint by over 98% compared to mined metals. Includes mass balance evaluation, quality determination at re-injection point, waste analysis, unsold stock analysis, and implementation support.
• Metal Transformation to Specifications Transformation of extracted and refined precious metals into finished products including shots, anodes, salts, and solutions according to customers' production criteria and technical specifications. Targets industrial customers requiring specific metal forms for their production processes.
• Recycled Metals and Semi-Finished Products Fine metals and derivatives (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium compounds) produced from WEEE waste and industrial residues, marketed as high-quality recycled materials meeting strict impurity specifications. Available in various forms including shots, anodes, salts, and solutions.
• Reverse Logistics Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 98%+ reduction in carbon footprint compared to metals extracted from the earth's crust
• +1 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• MorphosiscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2008Morphosis, a specialist in electronic waste created in 2008, partnered with WEEECycling to develop a significant global network of logisticians. Morphosis enables WEEECycling to organize reverse logistics from 2kg parcels to several containers worldwide.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Dowa Holdings: Japanese non-ferrous metals and recycling group with significant e-scrap and precious-metal recovery operations. Comparable to WEEECycling in WEEE metal recovery and integrated smelting/refining, though Dowa operates across multiple non-ferrous metals and a much broader Asian footprint.
• Johnson Matthey (Precious Metals): Historic precious metals refiner and catalyst producer offering PGM and base-precious-metal recovery from spent catalysts and industrial residues. Comparable to WEEECycling's catalyst and chemical-industry offerings, particularly in platinum-group metal recovery.
• Boliden: Swedish metals and mining group with substantial electronics and base-metals recycling (Rönnskär smelter recovers precious metals from e-scrap). Comparable to WEEECycling on WEEE-based precious-metal recovery but at industrial scale and integrated with primary smelting.
• Aurubis: European copper and non-ferrous metals recycler/refiner recovering precious metals (Au, Ag, Pt, Pd) as by-products of copper smelting. Comparable to WEEECycling in secondary non-ferrous and precious metal recovery and in serving multi-country industrial customers.
• Umicore: Global materials technology and recycling group with a major precious metals refining business (Jewellery & Industrial Metals, Recycling). Comparable to WEEECycling in precious-metal recovery from industrial and WEEE streams but operates at vastly greater scale and as a multi-vertical, publicly listed incumbent.
• Heraeus Precious Metals: German precious-metals specialist offering refining, recycling and trading of gold, silver, platinum-group metals. Closely comparable to WEEECycling on Pt/Au/Ag/Pd refining and circular-economy services, but with much larger global footprint and integrated trading operations.

Direct peers

• Sabin Metal Corp: US-based independent precious metals refiner specializing in PGM (Pt, Pd, Rh) and silver recovery from spent catalysts and industrial residues. Directly comparable to WEEECycling's precious-metals refining services for chemical, petrochemical and ASDS-adjacent customers.
• 5N Plus: Canadian specialty metals and recycled precious-metals producer (Au, Ag, Bi, Sb, Se, Te). Comparable to WEEECycling as a mid-sized specialist producing high-purity metal derivatives (salts, shots, oxides) from recycled streams for electronics, aerospace and catalyst customers.
• Materion Corporation: US-based advanced materials group with precious metals refining, recycling and fabrication of Au, Ag, Pt, Pd products. Directly comparable to WEEECycling on transformation of recycled precious metals into salts, solutions, anodes and other technical forms.

Regional players

• Veolia Recycling & Recovery (Recylex): French/European WEEE and lead/zinc recycling group that recovers precious metals from end-of-life electronics. Comparable to WEEECycling on WEEE intake and precious-metal recovery in the same French/European regulatory environment, but operating with a broader non-ferrous scope.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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