New recycling facility to recover precious metals from spent petroleum catalysts in India

08-Jul-16

Heraeus, one of the world's largest recyclers of reforming catalyst, has opened a new facility in India to recover precious metals from spent petroleum catalysts. The new site in Udaipur/Rajasthan will be operated by the German-Indian joint venture "Ravindra Heraeus" and will offer India's petrochemical industry more capacity and state-of-the-art technology to recycle Platinum and Palladium in the country.

Indian companies will therefore benefit from larger national recycling facilities, which will provide less transport costs and easier file processing, faster recycling times and better transparency in the market and overall improved costing for catalyst recycling. The new technology will furthermore offer latest environmental and social standards. After the recycling process, "Ravindra Heraeus" offers its customers to either receive new precious metals products, precursors or the pure recycled precious metals.

"The new recycling facility of Ravindra Heraeus in India will allow our customers from the petrochemical sector to receive outstanding catalyst recycling standards in India. We will be the only globally active precious metal company with local recycling capabilities in this very important sector. Together with our trusted and long-term partner Ravindra we will be able to offer fast, local and first class recycling services to our customers." said André Christl, President of Heraeus Metal Management, the companies precious metal recycling and trading unit.