Recovers metal value from waste, retired batteries and ore, refines it into battery-grade materials, and sells those materials into the battery and electric-vehicle supply chain at prices tied to metal markets.
- Depends onUpstream position: supplies 5 industries, depends on 1
- ScaleLevered free cash flow is -$1.36B, lower than 95% of all stocks globally
- FinancialsAltman Z-Score 1.19: grey zone
- Interpretations1 currently firing — 1
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The company sits between scattered sources of metal-bearing waste, such as retired batteries, scrapped vehicles, electronic waste and mined ore, and manufacturers of batteries and electric vehicles that need refined metal and battery materials. It coordinates the physical conversion of the first group's discarded or raw material into a form usable by the second group, moving material through its own collection, recycling and refining operations rather than brokering it between other parties.
Revenue comes from selling metal and battery materials as physical products at prevailing market prices once ownership passes to the buyer, rather than from recurring fees, subscriptions or long-term supply contracts disclosed on file. By its own account, the larger share of revenue now comes from manufactured new-energy battery materials rather than from the upstream recycling operations that feed them.
The company scales mainly by building and expanding its own physical processing and refining capacity, including a multi-step chain in Indonesia that carries nickel ore through several conversion stages toward finished battery materials, rather than through an asset-light or network-based model. This capacity-led growth has occurred alongside steady, consistent growth in its equity base and uninterrupted annual profitability, based on CompanyGraph's reading of its reported financial history.
Its own account names Glencore International AG as a source of crude cobalt hydroxide and PT Halama Hera Persada Lygend, operating under Lygend Resource Technology Co., Ltd., as a source of nickel and cobalt intermediate products; beyond these two, its remaining top suppliers are not individually named. More broadly, its recycling and refining chain depends on a continuing inflow of waste batteries, scrapped vehicles, electronic waste and mined nickel ore, and CompanyGraph's supply-chain mapping places it downstream of one supplying industry.
Its buyers are manufacturers in the automotive, battery and consumer-electronics supply chains; its own materials name CATL, BYD, Samsung SDI, SK On, LGC and ECOPRO among the companies and supply chains its new-energy materials reach. By its own disclosure, one customer accounts for a share of revenue large enough to require individual reporting, and a small group of top customers together accounts for a substantially larger combined share; CompanyGraph's mapping separately shows it supplying multiple industries downstream.
CompanyGraph's mapping places this company in a small group of only a few companies worldwide, including Shengyuan Environmental, Suwen Electric Energy Tech, Terra Innovatum Global, Terrestrial Energy and Wuxi Xuelang Environmental Technology, that run the same kind of production system under the same regulated-return economics. Sitting near these companies in this mapping means CompanyGraph sees a shared way of operating, not that their prices move together or that they are interchangeable. By its own account, the company also points to a large patent portfolio, a recycling chain spanning from waste collection through remanufactured end products, and processing capacity built across national borders as strengths it relies on; CompanyGraph has not independently verified how difficult these are for competitors to replicate.
CompanyGraph's classification starts this company under a general pattern for its industry in which a regulator caps returns in exchange for a protected territory and a duty to serve. Nothing in the company's own disclosures on file describes such an arrangement; instead, by its own account, what shapes its growth is competitive pressure within its industry, tariff and trade friction, swings in the market prices of the metals it handles, and the operational and safety demands that come with expanding its processing operations into new countries.
By its own account, the risks it lists first are broad macroeconomic and policy conditions, followed by competition, management execution and financial risk, rather than a single named operational failure point. Its disclosures also show concentration on both ends of the business: a single buyer and a small group of top buyers each account for a disclosed, material share of sales, named counterparties including Glencore International AG and PT Halama Hera Persada Lygend supply key cobalt and nickel inputs, and a meaningful part of its newest processing capacity sits in Indonesia, a single country outside its home market. The company itself points to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's past suspension of cobalt exports as the kind of event that can interrupt its raw material chain.
By its own account, the company's governance sits under rules from the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, part of its recycling operations sit on a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approval list, and its operating subsidiaries report into national and provincial pollutant-discharge monitoring systems. It also names escalating tariff disputes between trading blocs, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's suspension and later quota system on cobalt exports, as pressures on its supply chain and results, and it attributes part of its financing cost to currency movements tied to the renminbi's exchange rate.
Read from the company's own filings and public materials (gathered August 2026) together with figures CompanyGraph recomputed from its statements. Written August 2026. A question with no evidence behind it is left out rather than answered.
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