/ The opportunity
Why local origination matters
Brazil generates significant volumes of automotive catalysts, spent industrial and petrochemical catalysts, pharmaceutical filter residues, e-waste and metallic mining lots. Many of these flows remain under-tested, dispersed across small holders, or disconnected from the right buyers.
Specialised recovery and refining routes for PGMs and certain residues frequently depend on limited or international channels. That increases the value of technical screening and origination on the local floor — before moving expensive material across borders.
We are based in Barueri-SP, and buy from sellers across all of Brazil, with prepaid shipping labels issued by CATPRO.
/ Services
What we offer
Sourcing
Identification and prospection of Brazilian suppliers (workshops, scrap yards, industries, maintenance, mining) matching your material profile.
Screening
In-house XRF triage. Rich vs. poor fraction separation before shipment.
Sampling
Documented physical sampling with chain of custody from collection to lab.
Assay coordination
ICP-MS, ICP-OES or fire assay through qualified partner laboratories.
Supplier validation
Field verification, photos, basic documentary review to reduce risk before purchase.
Lot consolidation
Structuring consolidated lots from fragmented sources, with traceability and aggregated assay.
Local negotiation
Portuguese-language negotiation aligned with your terms (price, timeline, format).
Bilingual reporting
PT/EN reports with photos, weights, XRF, lab assay when applicable, operational context.
/ Who we serve
Partner profiles we work with
Refiners
Specialised PGM, Au or Ag refiners seeking recurring Brazilian flow with screening and documentation.
Traders
Catalyst, e-waste and mineral concentrate traders. Access to pre-validated Brazilian offers.
Recyclers
Specialised recyclers of saturated filters, cakes, process sludge, spent petrochemical catalyst.
Mining buyers
Buyers of Brazilian Au/Ag/Pt concentrate needing field validation.
Industrial buyers
Buyers of specific industrial catalyst (Ni, Mo, V, Co, W, Re) at plant turnarounds.
Due diligence firms
Technical consultancies needing a local arm for preliminary validation in Brazilian projects.
/ Why Brazil
Objective reasons for local origination
- Scale — large vehicle fleet, sizable industrial park, active mining sector.
- Diversified industry — oil & refining, petrochemicals, fertilisers, fine chemistry, pharma — all generators of spent catalyst and residues.
- Fragmentation at the source — material spread across thousands of small holders, hard to reach individually without local operation.
- Structural under-testing — XRF is rare outside specialised buyers; Brazilian flow frequently leaves uncharacterised.
- Operating cost — travel, sampling and internal logistics competitive vs. other emerging markets.
- Language and commercial culture — Portuguese-language local negotiation accelerates relationships; Brazilian fiscal documentation has its specificities that a local partner handles without friction.
/ Limits
What we are and what we are not
We are not a refinery. We do not refine PGM, Au or Ag. We act as the link between Brazilian suppliers and your specialised recovery channel.
We do not perform ICP-MS in-house. Coordination with qualified partner laboratories. Documented chain of custody.
We do not issue official mineral reserve reports. For ore/concentrate, we provide field verification, sampling coordination and preliminary screening — supporting the formal due diligence process led by your team.
/ Become a partner
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