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.
Materials Recovery
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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.
New Tech: Can modular metals recovery challenge the smelter model?
A UK-based startup is testing a different approach to extracting metals from electronic scrap, one that could influence how downstream recovery fits into the IT asset disposition and recycling chain.
Critical Minerals: Tungsten scrap export controls draw industry attention
A coalition of industries and businesses that rely on tungsten is urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to consider...