Catalytic Converter Recycling: Your Top 5 Questions Answered!

1. Why Should we Recycle Catalytic Converters? A catalytic converter is an essential component installed in a vehicle’s exhaust system designed to reduce harmful emissions from the inner workings of your vehicle. Each catalytic converter contains precious metals that can be recycled and reused, like platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Recycling catalytic converters is vital because … Read more

What Are Diesel Oxidation Catalysts?

Everyone is interested in the distinctions between the various types of catalytic converters. This is because catalytic converters are incredibly valuable scrap components, which generates extra revenue for the automotive industry. All original equipment manufacturer (OEM) catalytic converters from gasoline-powered vehicles can be sold for a good price, but many people are unsure whether diesel converters … Read more

pH7 Technologies Inc. Partners With Noble6 

The partnership will provide access to the pH7 non-acid based chemistry solution for the recycling of spent catalysts to North America.  Vancouver, Sep. 15, 2022. pH7 Technologies and Noble6 are pleased to announce they have entered a North American strategic partnership, combining pH7’s leading technologies for the recycling of platinum group metals (PGM) with Noble6’s … Read more

Stolen Catalytic Converter Buyers

Road buyers drive the market for stolen catalytic converters, enticing criminals to steal catalytic converters from your vehicles. This blog will explain who these road buyers are and who enables this criminal activity. These roaming road buyers play a large role in contributing to the theft of catalytic converters. These buyers travel city to city … Read more

An Interview with a Metallurgist

Q. How would you describe precious metals recycling as it relates to the catalytic converter market? A. I see two sides to the industry, the accumulator side and the smelter side. In between these two sides sits processors. You have generators of scrap with buyers/accumulators up and down the supply chain. The accumulators are totally … Read more