What Vary Tech does

Vary Tech (Hunan Vary Tech Co., Ltd.), founded in 2006 and headquartered in Changsha, Hunan, is a privately held Chinese solid-waste recycling technology company that designs and delivers integrated production lines for end-of-life home appliances, waste tires, and emerging waste lithium-ion battery materials. The firm operates three proprietary technology platforms — mechanical crushing and sorting, continuous oxygen-free pyrolysis (reported to deliver ~60% energy savings versus conventional thermal processing), and molecular-membrane fermentation — and combines them under what it terms a "three islands and two networks" integrated operating model. Vary has cumulatively delivered more than 150 production lines across 10+ countries and processed over 130 million home appliances, with anchor facilities such as the Miluo site handling 400,000 waste refrigerators annually.

The company's business model is an industrial equipment OEM and turnkey system integrator: it sells capex production lines (each line quoted to dismantle ~200 units/hour) to large home-appliance OEMs and recyclers, then layers on recurring revenue through digital services (Vary Sunny traceability platform), process optimization, and downstream offtake partnerships. Customer concentration is anchored in Chinese white-goods manufacturers — Midea, Haier, TCL, Robam — plus petrochemical and environmental-services counterparties including Evonik, SupeZET, Conch Venture, Shengyi, Lesso, and Orient Landscape, as well as international clients in Spain, Turkey, Rwanda, Malaysia, Mauritius, South Korea, and Japan. The operating structure was reorganized in March 2026 into the Vary Resource Recycling Group, consolidating operating subsidiaries (Miluo Vary, Xigema Environmental) under a holding entity, which is consistent with preparation for international scaling or future capital-markets activity.

Name

Vary Tech

Legal name

HUNAN VARY TECH CO.,LTD

Website

https://en.varygroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Vary Tech (Hunan Vary Tech) is a privately held Chinese solid-waste recycling technology company founded in 2006 in Changsha, Hunan. It designs and delivers integrated turnkey production lines — mechanical sorting, oxygen-free pyrolysis, and molecular-membrane fermentation — for waste home appliances, tires, and lithium-ion batteries to large OEMs and recyclers across 10+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Solid Waste Recycling Equipment

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Hazardous Waste Collection (562112), Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211), Waste Collection (5621), Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950), Hazardous Waste Management (4955)

akta.pro primary industry

Bulking, Sorting & Pre-Processing Facilities (Screening, Shredding, Size Reduction) (EUAIABAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recycling Equipment & Turnkey Reprocessing Systems (Extruders, Wash Lines) (IMANAMAI), Plastic Recycling Equipment & Technology Providers (Sorting, Washing, Extrusion) (EUAIAKAM), Industrial Hazardous Waste Services (Manufacturing, Refineries, Metals, Automotive) (EUAIAFAG), Industrial Packaging Waste Services (Pallets, Cardboard, Film, IBCs/Drums—Non-hazardous) (EUAIAGAD), Special Waste Transfer (Tires, Mattresses, Appliances) (BPALABAG)

Keywords

• Solid waste recycling equipment
• Pyrolysis technology systems
• Waste home appliance disassembly
• End-of-life vehicle recycling
• Biomass decomposition equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Changsha

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Equipment Manufacturing and Sales: Vary Tech manufactures and sells core equipment products including solid waste crushing and sorting equipment, organic solid waste pyrolysis systems, and biomass decomposition equipment. Equipment includes single-shaft shredders, double-shaft shredders, vertical crushers, pyrolysis furnaces, and complete production lines. Revenue is generated through direct equipment sales to industrial clients, municipal governments, and international customers.
2. System Solutions and Engineering Services: The company provides complete system solutions encompassing planning and design, equipment manufacturing, engineering installation, and operation and maintenance services. The marketing center, research and design institute, equipment manufacturing center, and engineering service center constitute a complete service industry chain. Revenue includes project design fees, system integration fees, installation services, and commissioning.
3. Solid Waste Pyrolysis Disposal Plants Operation: Vary Tech operates two solid waste pyrolysis disposal plants handling paint buckets, paint residues, oil-bearing waste, municipal waste plastics, waste lithium-ion batteries, and biochar. Operational expertise supports stable implementation of solid waste disposal projects globally. Revenue is generated through waste treatment fees and sale of derived products (pyrolysis oil, carbon, gas).
4. Licensing and Technology Export: Vary Tech exports technologies and provides technical services internationally, having delivered over 150 production lines globally and provided technical services for disassembly of approximately 130 million home appliances. The company aims to export Chinese technologies and build a digital, low-carbon global resource recycling system.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Vary Tech manufactures and sells solid-waste recycling equipment (crushers, shredders, sorting systems, pyrolysis furnaces) and delivers integrated turnkey system solutions for industrial solid-waste and hazardous-waste disposal, urban waste classification, and rural waste collaborative disposal. Its offering is anchored by three proprietary technology platforms: mechanical crushing and sorting, oxygen-free pyrolysis, and molecular membrane fermentation tank. The company also operates disposal plants and licenses technologies internationally.

Product overview

Vary Tech provides a comprehensive portfolio of solid waste crushing, sorting, and pyrolysis equipment organized into three main product categories: Solid waste crushing and sorting series (featuring pyrolysis systems for lithium battery industry waste, physical recycling equipment for battery electrodes, waste refrigerator treatment, scrap steel processing, end-of-life vehicle disassembly, and waste tire processing); Organic solid waste pyrolysis series (including complete pyrolysis equipment sets for tire rubber powder, oil sludge, industrial sludge, RDF, hazardous waste packaging and medical waste); and Biomass decomposition series (comprising dynamic continuous and static film covered aerobic decomposition equipment). The company also offers integrated system solutions for waste-free city construction using a 'three islands and two networks' model, and has developed three core technology platforms: mechanical crushing and sorting (physical recycling), oxygen-free pyrolysis (chemical recovery), and molecular membrane fermentation tank (biological treatment). The equipment portfolio supports processing of waste household appliances, waste vehicles, waste plastics, waste tires, scrap metals, industrial sludge, municipal sludge, hazardous waste, and biomass materials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Blue House (蓝屋): Physical recycling network node for recyclable solid waste collection
• Blue Island (蓝岛)
• Green Island (绿岛)
• Energy Island (能源岛)
• Vary Sunny
• Ecological Island (生态岛)

Products and services

• Pyrolysis System for Lithium Battery Industry Waste Pyrolysis system specifically designed for processing waste from the lithium battery manufacturing industry, enabling resource recovery from battery production waste.
• Physical Recycling (Milling) Equipment for Battery Electrode Slice Physical recycling equipment using milling technology to process battery electrode materials for material recovery.
• Equipment for Harmless Treatment and Resource Recovery of Waste Refrigerators Equipment featuring a unique patent combination of double-shaft shredder plus vertical crusher plus large air volume dilution cyclopentane gas system for separating, recovering, and utilizing raw materials from waste refrigerators. Recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as 'filling domestic gap and reaching international advanced level'.
• Integrated Equipment for Crushing, Sorting, and Scrap Steel Processing Integrated equipment system for crushing, sorting, and processing scrap steel and other materials.
• Equipment for Pretreatment and Fine Disassembly of End-of-Life Vehicles Equipment for pretreatment and fine disassembly of end-of-life vehicles, providing comprehensive disassembly and resource utilization solutions. Independently developed with proprietary intellectual property rights.
• Waste Tire Crushing, Sorting, and Pretreatment Equipment Equipment for crushing, sorting, and pretreatment of waste tires, integrated with anaerobic pyrolysis technology for physical and chemical recovery of waste tires and plastics.
• Crushing Single-Machine Series Equipment Standalone crushing machine series equipment for various solid waste processing applications.
• Large Waste Crushing and Sorting Equipment Large-scale equipment for crushing and sorting of bulky waste materials.
• Complete Set of Equipment for Pyrolysis of Tire Rubber Powder Complete pyrolysis equipment set for processing tire rubber powder, transforming waste tires into steel wire, pyrolysis oil, and pyrolysis carbon for resource-based, harmless, and reduction disposal.
• Complete Set of Oil Sludge Pyrolysis Equipment Complete equipment set for pyrolysis of oil sludge, handling oily contaminated waste, ground sludge, refinery sludge, tank bottom sludge, drilling cuttings, ground oil spill, and other oily sludge (HW08). Transforms into pyrolysis oil and pyrolysis carbon.
• Complete Set of Industrial Sludge Pyrolysis Equipment Complete pyrolysis equipment for industrial sludge, including municipal sludge from sewage treatment plants, underground pipe networks and river channels, and industrial sludge from paper making, printing and dyeing, leather industry, and down manufacturing.
• RDF Pyrolysis Package Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) pyrolysis package system for processing sorted municipal waste into high calorific value energy products.
• Pyrolysis Equipment for Hazardous Waste Packaging and Medical Waste Pyrolysis equipment for hazardous waste packaging containers and medical waste treatment. Hazardous waste packaging is processed via decapping and flattening plus pyrolysis plus crushing and screening to yield iron, pyrolytic oil, and pyrolytic carbon.
• Dynamic Continuous Aerobic Decomposition Equipment Dynamic continuous aerobic decomposition equipment using molecular membrane fermentation tank technology for rapid conversion of organic waste into organic fertilizer, nutrient soil, and RDF.
• Static Film-Covered Aerobic Ripening Equipment Static film-covered aerobic ripening equipment for biological treatment of organic waste including straw, kitchen waste, rural garbage, livestock manure, and municipal sludge.
• Three Islands and Two Networks Waste-Free City System Solution Integrated system solution for waste-free city construction comprising urban-rural waste resource utilization ecological industrial chain, classified collection and transportation reverse logistics network, big data information internet, urban recyclables (blue island), rural waste collaborative disposal (green island), and distributed RDF/intensive energy conversion (energy island).

Quantifiable outcome

• 98% non-ferrous metal recovery rate from waste refrigerators
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• EvonikcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Vary Tech partnered with Evonik, a global leader in specialty chemicals, to launch a full-chain integrated process package for chemical recycling of waste plastics. Together, the companies produce high-quality PPO (Plastic Pyrolysis Oil) and circular naphtha, bridging the gap from waste plastics to virgin-grade petrochemical feedstocks. This is Vary Tech's key strategic partnership for closing the chemical recycling loop.
• SupeZETcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026China's premier petrochemical plant integrator SupeZET partnered with Vary Tech and Evonik to deliver integrated process solutions that connect waste plastic pyrolysis output back into petrochemical production, achieving true chemical recycling where pyrolysis oil re-enters the petrochemical value chain.
• Chongqing Yumei Xinneng Renewable Resources Comprehensive Utilization Co., Ltd.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Vary Tech delivered two automatic waste refrigerator disassembly lines and two automatic waste air conditioner disassembly lines to Chongqing Yumei Xinneng for the Midea Green Circular Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park. This partnership enables Midea's extension from 'recycling' to 'recycling + disassembly', closing the full green loop for Midea's home appliances with a target of 3 million units disassembled annually.
• India E-Waste Treatment EnterpriseminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2024Customized waste refrigerator recycling and disassembly line developed by Vary Tech for a leading e-waste treatment enterprise in India officially passed acceptance and commenced operation in March 2026, marking a milestone in the company's global expansion strategy.
• Hunan Tonghe Classification Network Technology Co., Ltd.minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2021Vary Tech subsidiary Together Classification (under Vary Tech's group structure) is responsible for the design, development, construction and operation of whole chain waste classification systems. Together Classification led the drafting of the group standard 'Management Specification for Construction of Recyclable Material Recycling System' which passed expert review in Beijing in November 2021.
• Shenzhen Cihang Group / Hong Kong Environmental Protection Technology AllianceminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Strategic cooperation agreement signed in December 2016 for joint exploration of third-generation life waste disposal technology. The partnership involves visits to Vary Tech's equipment manufacturing base, Miluo electronic waste and end-of-life vehicle processing base, and headquarters urban mineral exhibition hall.
• Yongxing Pengkun Environmental Protection Co., Ltd.minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2018Miluo Vary introduced 10,000-ton capacity solid waste pretreatment equipment (crushing, screening, etc.) and pyrolysis furnace equipment. After operation, resource utilization capacity reached 230,800 tons/year.
• China National Machinery International Smart Energy Co., Ltd. (Zhongji Zhihui)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Strategic cooperation agreement signed in Shanghai in January 2017 for cooperation in energy and environmental protection projects. Zhongji Zhihui is a subsidiary of China Energy Engineering Group.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Erdwich GmbH: German manufacturer of industrial shredders and recycling systems for e-waste, appliances and metal scrap. Closely comparable product line to Vary Tech's single-shaft and double-shaft shredders used in waste refrigerator and ELV processing.
• GEM Co. Chinese battery and e-waste recycling major with closed-loop nickel-cobalt-manganese recovery from spent lithium-ion batteries. Directly comparable to Vary Tech's newly launched integrated waste Li-ion battery recycling line and its position in the Chinese resource recycling industry.
• Untha Shredding Technology: Austrian shredder manufacturer serving waste, recycling and scrap metal markets. Closely comparable to Vary Tech's crushing equipment portfolio for solid waste, plastics and metals processing.
• Komptech: Austrian manufacturer of machinery and systems for waste and biomass processing, including shredders, screeners and turners. Comparable to Vary Tech's biomass decomposition and solid waste pretreatment equipment for municipal and organic streams.
• SSI Shredding Systems: US-based manufacturer of industrial shredders and size-reduction equipment for waste, recycling and secure destruction. Directly comparable to Vary Tech's shredding/sorting equipment for appliances, electronics and bulky waste streams.
• Bollegraaf: Dutch manufacturer of balers and sorting systems for recycling and waste handling facilities. Directly comparable to Vary Tech's transfer station and MRF-type sorting and material handling equipment for recyclables.
• Forrec: Italian recycling equipment specialist designing shredders, separators and turnkey plants for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), metal scrap and end-of-life vehicles. Closely comparable to Vary Tech's WEEE and ELV disassembly lines.
• TOMRA: Norwegian sensor-based sorting and recycling technology provider. Directly comparable to Vary Tech's mechanical crushing and sorting line for waste appliances, plastics and metals, serving MRFs and recyclers globally with comparable equipment-based business models.

Broad incumbents

• Metso: Global industrial equipment manufacturer with a significant recycling and shredder portfolio (Metso Outotec, Lindemann). Comparable to Vary Tech across shredders, sorting and metal recycling equipment, but operating at much larger scale across multiple industrial verticals.
• Veolia: Global environmental services incumbent with hazardous waste treatment, MRF operations and industrial waste services across all regions. Comparable as a broader competitor for Vary Tech's industrial hazardous waste, municipal solid waste and pyrolysis services lines, though much larger and more diversified.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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