Stena Metall Holding GmbH

What Stena Metall Holding GmbH does

Stena Metall Holding GmbH is the German operating entity of the Stena Recycling division, itself part of the Swedish Stena Metall Group headquartered in Gothenburg. Operating under the brand Stena Recycling, the company runs an industrial-scale circular economy platform across seven European countries (Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, and Italy), serving tens of thousands of B2B customers with collection, processing, and material recovery services. Core offerings include Wertstoffrecycling (material recycling) of complex waste streams in certified plants, specialized lithium-ion battery recycling (including a newly launched battery recycling facility with Phase 3 partnerships), photovoltaic/solar panel recycling, and an electronics reuse service that redirects end-of-life equipment to second-life applications. Industry-specific solutions are tailored for the production/manufacturing, automotive, public sector, infrastructure, and retail verticals.

The company monetizes through a combination of processing fees from waste-generating customers and direct sales of recovered raw materials to a global network of steel mills, metalworks, foundries, and paper factories. R&D capability is anchored by the Stena Nordic Recycling Center and the Stena Recycling Lab, which develop industrial-scale procedures for complex products. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct, executed through a regional branch network that handles on-site collection and customer engagement, supported by digital content marketing, a YouTube channel, and localized websites per market. The entity is privately held as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stena Metall AB (a diversified Swedish conglomerate), with no public revenue, funding, or investor disclosures available in the source material.

Name

Stena Metall Holding GmbH

Legal name

Stena Metall Holding GmbH

Website

https://stenarecycling.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stena Metall Holding GmbH operates the German entity of Stena Recycling, an industrial-scale circular economy platform under Sweden's Stena Metall Group. It serves tens of thousands of B2B customers across seven European countries with material, battery, photovoltaic, and electronics recycling plus reuse services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Metal Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393)

akta.pro primary industry

Metals Recycling & Processing (Ferrous/Non-Ferrous) (BPALADAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

E-Waste & Electronics Metal Recovery (ITAD, Circuit Boards, Precious Metal Recovery) (IMAKAMAG), Scrap Collection, Brokerage & Trading (Dealers, Aggregators, Exporters) (EUAIAJAH), Precious & Specialty Metal Recovery (Smelting, Refining, Hydrometallurgy) (EUAIAIAD)

Keywords

• Metal recycling services
• Battery recycling solutions
• Electronic waste recycling
• Solar panel recycling
• Circular economy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Gothenburg

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recycling Services: Collection and processing of waste materials including electronics, batteries, and photovoltaic systems. Revenue generated through processing fees and sale of recovered raw materials to industrial partners.
2. Material Sales: Processed materials sold as high-quality raw materials to steel mills, metalworks, foundries, and paper factories worldwide.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Stena Metall Holding GmbH, operating as Stena Recycling, provides industrial recycling and material recovery services covering metal scrap (Wertstoffrecycling), lithium-ion battery recycling, electronics reuse, and end-of-life photovoltaic module processing. Its offering is built around dedicated R&D infrastructure (the Stena Nordic Recycling Center and Stena Recycling Lab) and a pan-European branch network across seven countries serving production, automotive, public-sector, and infrastructure customers.

Product overview

Stena Recycling operates as a comprehensive circular economy platform offering multiple integrated recycling and reuse services. The core offering includes material/value recycling (Wertstoffrecycling) as the foundational service, supported by specialized divisions for lithium-ion battery recycling, photovoltaic/solar recycling, and electronics reuse. Industry-specific solutions are provided for production manufacturing and automotive sectors. Research and innovation capabilities are anchored by the Stena Nordic Recycling Center and Stena Recycling Lab, which develop advanced industrial-scale recycling procedures. All materials are processed in certified facilities to produce high-quality raw materials for global steel, metal works, foundries, and paper factories. The portfolio represents a unified platform approach where collection, reuse, and recycling services work together to close material cycles for industrial customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Stena Recycling Lab: Research and development division focused on innovation in recycling technologies and processes.
• Stena Nordic Recycling Center

Products and services

• Wertstoffrecycling (Material Recycling)

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Competent Partners for Battery Recycling Phase 3coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStena Recycling has entered into exciting partnerships with competent partners for Phase 3 of the recycling process as part of their new battery recycling facility operations. These partnerships are essential for handling the growing volume of batteries from electric vehicles and electronic devices.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Befesa: Luxembourg-headquartered environmental services company recycling hazardous industrial waste and steel dust into valuable materials, comparable in operating industrial-scale recovery facilities across Europe.
• Umicore: Belgian materials technology and recycling group with a major battery materials/recycling business, directly overlapping with Stena's lithium-ion recycling and recovered metals selling to industrial buyers.
• Aurubis: German-headquartered copper smelter and multi-metal recycler with a strong European footprint, comparable in processing complex recovered materials into industrial-grade raw materials for downstream manufacturing.
• Boliden: Swedish metals producer with significant smelting and recycling operations, overlapping with Stena in recovering metals from electronics, batteries, and industrial waste for sale to manufacturers.
• Renewi: Dutch-listed recycling and waste management company operating materials recovery facilities across Europe, directly comparable to Stena's collection-network-plus-processing model for industrial and commercial recyclables.

Emerging players

• Hydrovolt: Joint venture between Norsk Hydro and Northvolt focused on lithium-ion battery recycling in Norway; directly competes with Stena's battery recycling facility in the same European EV-battery waste stream.
• Duesenfeld: German battery recycling startup focused on lithium-ion processing; competes directly with Stena in the German battery recycling market but at smaller scale.
• Redwood Materials: US-headquartered battery recycling company expanding operations into Europe; competes for the same European EV and electronics battery recycling volumes with comparable hydrometallurgical process technology.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia Environmental Services: Large French environmental services group with significant recycling and waste management operations across Europe, offering overlapping capabilities in hazardous waste, electronics, and materials recovery but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Suez Recycling and Recovery: French environmental services company with European-wide recycling and recovery operations, competing in materials recovery facilities, e-waste, and circular-economy services for industrial and public-sector customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCqY778PLsEWWpF0bokxvpvg/videos
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stena-metall-holding-gmbh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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