Building Catalytic Converter Recycling Plants Worldwide: Proses Makina’s Global Footprint
Building Catalytic Converter Recycling Plants Worldwide: Proses Makina’s Global Footprint
Proses Makina designs and builds advanced refining and recycling plants for critical and precious metals. Among its core focus areas, PGM refining and catalytic converter recycling play a central role. These processes recover valuable metals such as platinum, palladium, and rhodium, while ongoing work also targets iridium and ruthenium.
The company develops systems that extract PGM metals from end-of-life automotive catalytic converters, as well as technologies for recovering molybdenum and cobalt from spent catalysts used in the petroleum industry. Its first spent catalyst recycling plant was established in Romania, becoming Europe’s first facility capable of recovering molybdenum, cobalt, and PGMs from such materials. Following this success, similar plants were delivered in Oman and Saudi Arabia for processing refinery waste.
In the field of catalytic converter recycling, Proses Makina has built complete facilities in Canada and delivered turnkey solutions in the United States, including a well-known installation for Davis Recycling. These projects combine both physical and chemical processing technologies. In addition, the company has supplied key equipment such as de-canning units, ball mills, and dust collection systems to various partners, along with operational training.
Across the globe, Proses Makina has successfully installed recycling systems in countries including Bulgaria, Armenia, New Zealand, Malaysia, India, the UAE, South Africa, Denmark, the UK, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. Notably, the full hydrometallurgical infrastructure of one of Europe’s largest catalytic converter recycling plants in Spain was delivered by the company, supported by royal and EU funding.
Beyond current operations, Proses Makina continues to innovate. It is actively involved in an EU-backed project focused on recycling membrane electrode assemblies used in green hydrogen production, which contain critical metals such as iridium, ruthenium, and platinum.
By tailoring equipment and processes to customer needs, Proses Makina helps optimize efficiency and reduce operational costs per ton, delivering both economic and environmental value on a global scale.
