Upcycling Group

Name

Upcycling Group

Legal name

Upcycling Group s.r.o.

Website

https://upcycling.group

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Circular Construction Materials

akta.pro primary industry

Material Reuse & Upcycling Services (Non-recycling Transformation) (EUAIANAJ)

Keywords

• Industrial upcycling technology
• Circular construction materials
• Waste-to-building materials
• Composite packaging recycling
• Circular factory licensing

Headquarters

HQ city

Praha

HQ country

Czechia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. UPFACTORY® product licenses: License fees from translating materials processing technology and defined waste streams into construction product systems aligned with end-market requirements. Product specifications, recipes, and know-how are licensed for industrial deployment across multiple sites.
2. UPFACTORY® operating system services: Revenue from setting up, operating, and scaling industrial production facilities through the UPFACTORY® operating system. Includes quality control, reporting, and performance monitoring services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Upcycling Group develops and industrializes materials processing technology that transforms composite packaging and plastics into high-performance construction materials such as roof cover boards and interior wallboard. It commercializes this through the UPFACTORY® system, licensing product specifications, recipes, and know-how to industrial partners, and operating the UPFACTORY® Operating System (UFOS) to set up, run, and scale standardized circular factories.

Product overview

Upcycling Group offers a unified industrial upcycling platform centered on the UPFACTORY® system — a standardized model for circular factories. The platform consists of three interconnected components: (1) UPFACTORY® itself, which combines materials processing technology, operational standards, certified recipes, and digital tools; (2) UPFACTORY® Operating System (UFOS), providing structured processes, quality control, reporting, and performance monitoring; and (3) UPFACTORY® Product Licenses enabling industrial deployment of construction products. Together, these components transform composite packaging and plastics into market-ready, high-performance construction materials at industrial scale.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UPFACTORY: A standardized model for circular factories combining proven technology, operational standards (UFOS), certified recipes, and digital tools into one scalable system for industrial deployment.

Products and services

• UPFACTORY® Product Licenses Licensed package of materials processing technology, product specifications, certified recipes, and know-how that translates defined waste streams into construction product systems for industrial deployment. Targeted at industrial operators and construction materials manufacturers seeking sustainable inputs.
• UPFACTORY® Operating System (UFOS) Structured operating system that sets up, operates, and scales industrial production facilities through standardized processes, quality control, reporting, and performance monitoring, ensuring repeatable quality, performance, and operational consistency across licensed sites. Provided to industrial partners as a managed service.
• Circular Construction Materials High-performance construction materials, including roof cover boards and interior wallboard, produced from composite packaging and plastics using Upcycling Group's industrial upcycling technology. Output of UPFACTORY® licensed production sites, intended for the construction industry as sustainable alternatives to conventional building materials.

Quantifiable outcome

• 6,500,000 square meters of produced boards
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Carton CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025The Carton Council, in partnership with Upcycling Group and Elof Hansson, plans to launch a facility in 2025 that will convert 9,000 tons of used food and beverage cartons annually into sustainable building materials such as roof cover boards and interior wallboard. The initiative aims to reduce waste and carbon emissions by repurposing the fiber, polyethylene, and aluminum contained in cartons.
• Elof HanssoncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Partner in the joint initiative with the Carton Council to launch a facility in 2025 converting 9,000 tons of used food and beverage cartons annually into sustainable construction materials. The partnership addresses challenges related to material supply and wider adoption within the construction industry.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Renewi: Renewi recycles post-consumer and commercial waste into secondary raw materials across Europe. Comparable in diverting complex waste streams into usable industrial inputs, though Renewi focuses on recyclate outputs rather than finished construction products.
• Veolia Environment: Veolia is a global environmental services group with large-scale waste recovery and recycling operations, including feedstocks that intersect with Upcycling Group's packaging waste streams. A broad incumbent in resource recovery rather than a specialist in construction product licensing.
• Suez: Suez operates waste collection, sorting, and material recovery infrastructure across Europe and globally, with growing activity in circular economy solutions. Comparable as a large incumbent in resource recovery and recycling, though not focused on construction product output.

Direct peers

• Conceptos Plásticos: Conceptos Plásticos transforms mixed plastic waste into construction blocks used in low-cost housing. Comparable in using hard-to-recycle plastic feedstocks to produce structural building materials, though operating primarily in Latin America.
• ByFusion: ByFusion converts mixed plastic waste (including multilayer/composite packaging) into construction blocks and panels via a proprietary block-making process. Highly comparable to Upcycling Group's transformation of complex composite packaging into construction material outputs, though ByFusion focuses on plastic-only feedstocks and a different product form.
• Biohm: Biohm is a UK-based materials manufacturer producing construction boards and insulation from agricultural and food waste. Shares the same model of converting waste feedstocks into commercialisable building products, but focused on biomass rather than composite packaging.
• StoneCycling: StoneCycling produces building products (bricks, tiles, facade panels) from mineral and demolition waste streams. Like Upcycling Group, it markets waste-derived construction materials to architects and developers targeting circular construction.

Emerging players

• Gjenge Makers: Gjenge Makers produces construction pavers and tiles from mixed plastic waste, used in infrastructure across East Africa. Comparable as an emerging plastic-to-construction-material player, though operating regionally and at smaller scale.
• Materia Nova: Materia Nova is a Belgian R&D center developing new materials from recycled and bio-based feedstocks, including some construction-adjacent outputs. Comparable as an emerging materials R&D player in the same general theme of turning waste into higher-value material products.

Others

• TOMRA: TOMRA supplies sensor-based sorting and recycling technology to waste management operators, including advanced sorting for beverage cartons. Comparable as a technology supplier enabling recycling/upcycling of packaging waste that Upcycling Group also processes, though TOMRA sells equipment rather than end construction products.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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