clyd international

What clyd international does

Clyde International is a France-based B2B trading company that reclaims and resells recycled thermoplastic and elastomer materials. Founded in 1993 by Cassandre JANVIER, who remains Présidente, the company sources manufacturing waste (sprues, trimmings, purges, lot tails) and end-of-life plastic products (crates, pallets, bins, computers) and resells them after treatment as regenerated, crushed, or powdered forms. It handles both commodity plastics (PP, PE, PS, PVC) and technical polymers (PC, POM, PET, ABS, PU, PTFE, EVA), including complex or contaminated streams that more selective recyclers reject.

The company runs an asset-light operating model: it owns no industrial infrastructure and instead contracts industrial service providers for storage, regeneration, crushing, baling, densification, and bin placement. This lets a small 8-person team distribute approximately 23,000 tonnes of materials per year, with 60% of activity generated through exports to the European community, Africa, and Asia. The stated R&D direction is to further develop recycling applications through innovative technologies developed with partners.

The business model is a transaction-fee trading margin on each tonne bought and resold, with pricing set per quote based on polymer type, condition, quantity, and processing required. Customers are industrial manufacturers looking to valorize production waste or to source lower-cost recycled feedstock in compliance with environmental regulations. Revenue is not publicly disclosed; no funding rounds, acquisitions, certifications, or patents are on record, and the company appears to be founder-owned and independently operated.

Name

clyd international

Legal name

CLYDE INTERNATIONAL

Website

https://clyde-plast.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Clyde International is a French B2B trader founded in 1993 that reclaims and resells recycled thermoplastic and elastomer materials, distributing roughly 23,000 tonnes per year to industrial manufacturers across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Plastic Recycling and Trading

NAICS

Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393), Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (423930)

SIC

Plastic Materials, Synth Resins & Nonvulcan Elastomers (2821), Wholesale-Durable Goods, Nec (5099)

akta.pro primary industry

Secondary Materials Brokerage & Trading (Recovered Commodities) (BPALADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Post-Industrial Plastics Scrap Recovery & Regrind (IMANAMAB)

Keywords

• Plastic recycling services
• Thermoplastics trading
• Elastomer materials resale
• Industrial plastic waste
• Polymer waste valorization

Headquarters

HQ city

Andrézieux-Bouthéon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Plastic Material Trading: Trading and resale of thermoplastic and elastomer materials in various forms: compounds, declassified, regenerated, crushed, powders, or waste to crush. Materials sourced from manufacturing waste (sprues, trimmings, purges, lot tails) and end-of-life products (crates, pallets, bins, computers).

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Clyde International trades and recycles thermoplastics, elastomers, and industrial plastic waste, handling commodity plastics (PP, PE, PS, PVC) and technical plastics (PC, POM, PET, ABS, PU, PTFE, EVA). The company recovers manufacturing waste (sprues, trimmings, purges, lot tails) and end-of-life products (crates, pallets, racks, computers), reselling them after treatment as compounds, declassified, regenerated, crushed, or powdered materials. Operating without its own industrial infrastructure, the firm coordinates with industrial service providers for storage, regeneration, crushing, baling, densification, and bin placement, distributing approximately 23,000 tonnes per year.

Product overview

Clyde International operates as a single unified service offering focused on plastic and elastomer recycling and trading. The company recovers manufacturing waste and end-of-life plastic materials, processing them into regenerated, crushed, or powdered forms for resale. They handle both commodity plastics (PP, PE, PS, PVC) and technical materials (PC, POM, PET, ABS, PU, PTFE, EVA), distributing approximately 23,000 tonnes annually across Europe, Africa, and Asia. The company works with industrial service providers for storage, regeneration, crushing, baling, and densification services rather than maintaining its own industrial infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Industrial service providerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClyde International works with industrial service providers who provide processing solutions: storage, regeneration, crushing, baling, densification, and bin placement. These partnerships are essential to the company's operations as it has no industrial structure of its own.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Paprec Group: Leading French recycling group that trades and recycles plastics, paper, and other secondary materials; comparable because it is a French-headquartered recycled-materials trader/reprocessor with overlapping product streams (PP, PE, PET and technical plastics) and a similar Europe-anchored customer base.
• MBA Polymers: Specialist recycler of post-consumer and post-industrial plastics from complex streams (appliances, electronics, automotive), directly comparable to Clyde's handling of complex/contaminated plastic scrap into recycled compounds for resale.
• N+P Recycling: European trader/aggregator of recycled plastics supplying manufacturers with secondary raw material; comparable as a B2B plastics broker with similar materials (commodity and technical polymers) and European industrial customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia: Global environmental services giant with a large plastics-recycling division; comparable as a broader incumbent operating in the same recyclable plastics value chain across Europe, though much larger and vertically integrated.
• SUEZ: Major waste-management and recycling group with plastics recovery and trading activities; comparable as a broad incumbent in the same secondary-materials market across Europe and beyond.
• Grüner Punkt (Der Grüne Punkt): DSD-owned packaging-recycling system operator in Germany handling mixed plastics and other recyclables; comparable as an incumbent aggregating and trading secondary plastic materials in the European market.

Emerging players

• INEOS Recyclics: INEOS's recycling business investing in pyrolysis and mechanical recycling of plastic waste; comparable as a player expanding in plastic recyclate supply serving European manufacturers, but with proprietary processing technology Clyde lacks.
• Plastic Energy: Chemical-recycling company converting end-of-life plastics into feedstock; comparable as an emerging player in advanced plastic recyclate supply addressing the same industrial customer demand for circular plastics.
• Polystyvert: Canadian/French recycling innovator specializing in polystyrene and other complex plastic streams; comparable as a niche player tackling difficult plastic fractions that mainstream brokers/recyclers typically reject.

Others

• Cabka: European manufacturer of pallets and containers using recycled plastics; adjacent because it both consumes secondary plastics and trades material, mirroring Clyde's involvement with end-of-life pallets, crates, and racks as feedstock.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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