April 17, 2024
(press release)
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Umicore is launching the broadest offering of fully-recycled precious metals worldwide, including platinum-group metals (PGM), with three types of certificates. Branded as Nexyclus™, this unique offering addresses resource scarcity and increased demand for recycled, responsibly sourced and low-carbon metals, and builds on Umicore’s global leadership in the recovery of precious metals with its longstanding circular business model. Nexyclus™ guarantees 100 percent, high-quality recycled metals, starting with the precious metals gold, silver and the PGMs platinum, palladium and rhodium. These non-ferrous, recycled metals all originate from reliable suppliers, in line with Umicore’s responsible sourcing framework. Customers can choose between three recycled content offerings and chain of custody certifications. Nexyclus™ certificates will be third-party audited.* “Umicore’s Nexyclus™ represents the world’s widest fully recycled, responsibly sourced precious metals offering, harnessing the technology leadership of our worldwide and world-renowned precious metals refining and recycling capabilities. The offering secures reliable access to critical raw materials for a range of industries supporting their own sustainability objectives and advances the circular economy.” Veerle Slenders, Umicore’s Executive Vice President Recycling Nexyclus™ leverages the strengths of Umicore’s Precious Metals Refining and its Jewelry and Industrial Metals activities. Umicore’s precious metals refining and recycling facility in Hoboken processes and recovers 17 precious metals out of 200 different and complex industrial waste streams at the highest quality and sustainability standards through its unique and proven flowsheet. Umicore’s Jewelry and Industrial Metals is a leading provider, offering a complete range of precious metals recycling services and products. Catering to top names in jewelry, watchmaking, and the coin industry, it also serves the electrical engineering, automotive, chemical, and medical technology sectors with industrial applications. Umicore uses certain monitoring and tracking technologies such as cookies. These technologies are used in order to maintain, provide and improve our services on an ongoing basis, and in order to provide our web visitors with a better experience. By clicking on the "Accept all" button you agree to the use of these cookies while using the website. For further information regarding how we use cookies and other tracking technologies, please see section 11 of our website privacy notice.
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