Assay & Sampling for Recyclers & Secondary Refiners | Bachelet Group
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Recyclers & secondary refiners

Recyclers · secondary refiners · scrap, e-waste & residue processors

Precious-metal recovery
Recyclers & secondary refiners

Value hidden in heterogeneous material — found.

Recyclers · secondary refiners · scrap, e-waste & residue processors

Secondary feed is the hardest material to analyse: spent catalysts, circuit boards, sweeps and mixed residues are wildly heterogeneous, and the metal of interest often sits in fractions of a percent. Representative sampling and precise, repeatable precious-metal recovery analysis are the whole game — exactly the discipline Bachelet is built on.

Why recyclers choose Bachelet
  • Representative sampling & homogenisation of heterogeneous secondary material.
  • Precious & PGM recovery by fire assay (Pb) and ICP-OES.
  • Deleterious-element screening for downstream refining acceptance.
  • Independent lot valuation both parties can settle on.
Typical metals: Au · Ag Pt · Pd · Rh Cu · Ni
Selected clients

Recyclers and secondary refiners who rely on Bachelet.

A selection of the companies across the metals value chain that trust our results.

Befesa
Berzelius
Metallo Chimique
Recytech
Revatech
Umicore
One standard for all

Whoever you are in the chain, the proof is the same.

Accredited methods, controlled chain of custody, and 100 years of independence — so a Bachelet certificate means the same thing to a miner, a smelter, a trader and a recycler.

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