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You will find here some articles related to the catalytic converter recycling business and the PGM market news.

Catalytic Converters - What Does the Future Hold?

POSTED ON 19 October 2022 BY Supsuta S.

With the world’s governments and automakers stating a commitment to discontinue sales of diesel and gasoline cars in favor of zero emission vehicles by 2030, in this article we ask whether this wil...

Fighting Catalyst Crime in USA

POSTED ON 29 August 2022 BY Supsuta S.

Earlier this year, we published an article concerning the theft of catalytic converters from parked vehicles in Malaysia, and noted that this criminal activity has been rife, particularly in t...

Recycling and toll-refining of automotive foil catalysts

POSTED ON 28 July 2022 BY Supsuta S.

Unlike traditional ceramic and DPF catalytic converters, automotive foil catalysts are made of thin, flat and corrugated metal foils formed into a honeycomb structure, coated on the inside with pla...

What machines are used in catalytic converter recycling?

POSTED ON 7 February 2022 BY Maxime Le Breton

The recycling of scrap catalytic converters to retrieve the precious metal content of platinum, palladium and rhodium, is important, both environmentally and economically. The mining of metal ore...

Two Decades of Change in the Catalytic Converter Recycling…

POSTED ON 15 August 2021 BY Maxime Le Breton

Since the turn of the century, much has changed in catalytic converter recycling. The industry has become increasingly complex, technology-based and professional. Complexity has arisen from a comb...

Toll Refining - the Present and the Future

POSTED ON 9 August 2021 BY Maxime Le Breton

Among the myriad of changes we have seen over the last 20 years in the catalytic converter recycling industry, one of the most influential has been toll refining. Historically, the majority of sal...

Helpful Hints to Improved Profitability

POSTED ON 29 July 2021 BY Maxime Le Breton

The quotation, ”knowledge is power”, commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, is a byword in many facets of life, and in the catalytic converter recycling market it has become equally important. I...

Benefiting from Improved Data Accuracy 🙌

POSTED ON 29 April 2021 BY Saraiwan

As with most industries, the provision of reliable and accurate data plays an increasingly major role in the catalytic converter recycling market. In the main, this has focused on the average value...

Busting the Myths in Catalytic Converter Recycling ❌

POSTED ON 19 March 2021 BY Saraiwan

The catalytic converter recycling industry is not always the honest and transparent marketplace that we would all wish to see. This can be particularly tough for the scrap catalyst collector who wa...

Rhodium Continues to Soar…where will it end?🤔

POSTED ON 24 February 2021 BY Saraiwan

Exactly one year ago (and before COVID-19’s full impact on the industrial world had manifested itself) we reported that the price of rhodium had reached an all-time high of over $10,000 per ounce,...

You will find here some articles related to the catalytic converter recycling business and the PGM market news.