Recent earnings updates from Aurubis, Umicore and Sims Limited suggest that parts of the downstream metals and electronics recycling market remain comparatively healthy heading into the remainder of 2026. The companies cited supportive precious-metal and non-ferrous pricing, strong recycling activity levels, and continued demand for high-value secondary materials, even as they warned of ongoing pressure from feedstock tightness and volatile treatment charges.
Raised Aurubis guidance sends positive signal for circuit board and metals recovery markets
Aurubis raised its full-year earnings outlook after stronger second-quarter results driven in part by higher returns from recycling materials and precious metals. The company’s performance and ongoing recycling-capacity expansion projects in Germany and the U.S. are being closely watched by electronics recyclers and ITAD firms as indicators of downstream demand for complex e-scrap and recovered metals.
Corporate Strategy: Dave Bernstein on ITAD Channels, Compliance and the Long Game in Enterprise Asset Disposition
My guest is Dave Bernstein, CEO of Anything IT, who came into the industry at Y2K and has spent decades building a channel driven, certification heavy ITAD model that now serves both Fortune grade enterprises and the US federal government in roughly equal measure.
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