World Recycling Brokers

What World Recycling Brokers does

World Recycling Brokers (WRB) is an industrial scrap recovery and brokerage company headquartered in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, with operations concentrated in Northeast Mexico. The company purchases, processes, and commercializes ferrous and non-ferrous scrap (copper, aluminum, stainless steel, iron, lead, antimony, magnesium, silicon, tungsten), engineering plastics (ABS, PP, PE), and OCC cardboard generated by manufacturing, maquiladora, and automotive plants.

The operating model is asset-intensive rather than software-driven. WRB owns an industrial yard in Escobedo, N.L. equipped with PROFECO-calibrated truck scales, hydraulic cranes fitted with electromagnetic and orange-peel (poligrapa) grab attachments, Roll-Off trucks, self-dumping hoppers, and alloy-analyzer spectrometers used to sort stainless steel grades 304 and 316. Service lines span container placement, certified fiscal destruction (with documentation enabling corporate tax deductions), heavy-lift crane handling, structural dismantling of industrial warehouses and obsolete machinery, and closed-loop Industrial Return (reverse-logistics) programs. Processed materials are brokered both domestically and to international smelters.

Revenue is generated through transactional scrap-purchase spreads, professional-services fees for fiscal destruction and dismantling, managed container rentals, and equipment-service charges for crane operations. Pricing is quote-based and tiered by monthly volume (1–5, 5–20, 20–50, and 50+ tons). Go-to-market is enterprise field sales with multilingual (Spanish/English/Chinese) corporate outreach, formal tender and bidding participation, and a web-based quote calculator. The company is privately held, with no disclosed funding events, revenue figures, headcount data, AI capabilities, mobile app, or M&A activity.

Name

World Recycling Brokers

Legal name

World Recycling Brokers

Website

https://wr-brokers.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

World Recycling Brokers is a Monterrey-based industrial scrap recovery and brokerage firm that purchases, processes, and places metals, engineering plastics, and OCC cardboard from manufacturing, maquiladora, and automotive plants in Northeast Mexico via its own fleet and certified yard.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Scrap Recycling and Brokerage

NAICS

Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (423930), Metal Service Centers and Other Metal Merchant Wholesalers (423510)

SIC

Wholesale-Metals & Minerals (No Petroleum) (5050)

akta.pro primary industry

Metal Scrap Trading & Brokerage (Ferrous & Non-Ferrous) (IMAKAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scrap Collection, Brokerage & Trading (Dealers, Aggregators, Exporters) (EUAIAJAH), Secondary Materials Brokerage & Trading (Recovered Commodities) (BPALADAJ)

Keywords

• Industrial scrap recycling
• Metal scrap brokerage
• Fiscal destruction services
• Industrial dismantling services
• Container rental services

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa María Mazatla

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Industrial Scrap Purchase & Recovery: WRB purchases ferrous and non-ferrous metals (copper, aluminum, stainless steel, iron, lead, antimony, magnesium, silicon, tungsten), engineering plastics (ABS, PP, PE), and OCC cardboard from industrial generators at competitive commodity market prices.
2. Global Material Brokerage: Commercial brokerage placing processed cardboard, baled plastics, and sorted metal scrap directly into global smelters and recyclers at international level.
3. Container/Bin Rental: Placement of Roll-Off containers and self-dumping hoppers at client industrial facilities for safe scrap accumulation, optimizing loading times.
4. Certified Fiscal Destruction: Certified physical shredding/destruction of obsolete products, engineering scrap, molds, and retired fixed assets with official documentation for corporate tax deductions.
5. Industrial Dismantling Services: Structural deconstruction and dismantling of industrial warehouses, storage racks, piping networks, and obsolete heavy machinery with full legal and environmental compliance documentation.
6. Magnet & Grab Crane Services: Heavy equipment rental and operation services for efficient handling of ferrous scrap using hydraulic cranes with electromagnetic or grab attachments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

World Recycling Brokers is an industrial scrap recovery and brokerage company serving manufacturing, maquiladora, and automotive plants in Northeast Mexico. The company purchases ferrous and non-ferrous metals (copper, aluminum, stainless steel, iron, specialty metals), engineering plastics (ABS, PP, PE), and OCC cardboard from industrial generators, then places these materials into national and international smelters and recyclers. Services are delivered through the company's own logistics fleet including Roll-Off trucks, hydraulic cranes with electromagnetic and grab attachments, PROFECO-calibrated scales, and an industrial yard in Escobedo, N.L.

Product overview

World Recycling Brokers (WRB) is an industrial recycling and waste management company operating in Northeast Mexico. Their offering is a comprehensive service portfolio centered on industrial scrap recovery and brokerage, not a unified software platform. The core offering consists of five primary service lines: Container Rental (placement of Roll-off bins), Fiscal Destruction (certified physical destruction with tax documentation), Material Sales (global commercial brokerage to smelters), Magnet & Grab Crane services (heavy equipment handling), and Dismantling (structural deconstruction). Material collection spans ferrous and non-ferrous metals (copper, aluminum, stainless steel, iron, lead, antimony, magnesium, silicon, tungsten), engineering plastics (ABS, PP, PE), and OCC cardboard. They also offer an online Quote Calculator for customer requests. All services are supported by their own logistics fleet, certified truck scales calibrated before PROFECO, and an industrial yard in Escobedo, N.L.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Container Rental (Renta de Contenedor)

Quantifiable outcome

• Transparent weighing with certified scales ensures fair transactions and regulatory compliance
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Trafigura: Global commodities trading house with significant metals and minerals operations. Comparable as a global metal broker and trader, particularly for specialty and non-ferrous flows that WRB accesses through its international brokerage channel.
• Ternium: Major Latin American steelmaker with significant operations in Mexico. Comparable as a likely downstream consumer of WRB's ferrous and stainless scrap, and as a benchmark for industrial-scale Mexican metal customers.
• Commercial Metals Company (CMC): Vertically integrated steelmaker that operates scrap metal recycling as a feedstock operation. Comparable because it sources industrial scrap through yard networks and places it into downstream mills, though CMC's primary business is steel production rather than pure brokerage.
• Metal One Corporation: Japan-based global metal trading and brokerage company active in ferrous and non-ferrous trade flows, including scrap. Comparable as a global metals broker placing processed material with end users worldwide.
• Deacero: Largest Mexican steelmaker with integrated scrap collection operations serving maquiladora and industrial customers. Comparable as both a likely downstream buyer for WRB's ferrous scrap and a competing collector in the Mexican industrial market.
• Glencore: Global commodities trader active in metals, minerals, and recyclables. Comparable in the global metal brokerage function WRB performs, though at vastly larger scale and across a broader commodity book.

Direct peers

• Sims Metal Management: Global scrap metal recycler and broker operating yard infrastructure for ferrous and non-ferrous collection from industrial generators. Closely comparable business model — collection, processing, and placement into mills/smelters — but at significantly larger scale and across multiple geographies.
• Metalico: Scrap metal collector and processor operating yards across multiple US regions, focused on ferrous and non-ferrous scrap from industrial generators. Comparable in collection-plus-brokerage model and in serving regional manufacturing customers.
• SA Recycling: US-based scrap metal recycler with regional yards serving industrial generators, including ferrous and non-ferrous collection and processing. Highly comparable yard-and-fleet-driven collection model targeting manufacturing customers.
• Schnitzer Steel Industries: North American scrap metal recycler operating yards, processing facilities, and brokerage operations serving industrial accounts. Comparable in the ferrous/non-ferrous collection model and mill/ smelter placement, with a similar emphasis on certified weighing and downstream placement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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