Metycle operates an AI-powered digital marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of secondary metals worldwide, providing quality assessment, logistics support and market intelligence to accelerate recycling and resource recovery.
Circularity Relevance
Core
Platform explicitly designed to facilitate international trade in secondary (recycled) metals, directly supporting recycling and resource recovery. Source: METYCLE, 2025
Circular Role
DirectEnabler
Metycle directly facilitates transactions of secondary metals between buyers and sellers (hosts the marketplace and services). Source: METYCLE, 2025
Circular Type
Marketplace
• Materials
• B2B
Digital trading platform connecting businesses to buy and sell secondary metals (materials marketplace, B2B). Source: METYCLE, 2025
R Strategy
R8 - Recycle, R3 - Reuse
Primary focus is enabling recycling/resource recovery of secondary metals (R8). Platform also enables reuse/resale flows of material between companies (R3). Classification based on service description and marketplace functionality. Source: METYCLE, 2025
Circular Business Model
Recycling / Resource Recovery, Circular Logistics
Core marketplace for recycled metals (Recycling / Resource Recovery) and offers logistics/customs support for international movement of scrap (Circular Logistics). Source: METYCLE, 2025
Company describes itself as a platform for secondary metal trade and metal recycling; site and industry profiles identify recycling focus. Source: METYCLE, 2025
Geographical Reach
Global
• Germany
Website states offices in Germany, Switzerland, China, India and the USA and shows global trading capabilities. Source: METYCLE, 2025
Hardware Component
None
Platform is a digital trading marketplace; no evidence found that Metycle supplies or operates specialised hardware. Images referencing container tracking appear illustrative; tracking is offered as a service rather than provided hardware. Source: METYCLE, 2025
Tech Map Relevance
Metycle is an AI-powered digital marketplace for secondary metals that explicitly aims to accelerate metal recycling and resource recovery; corroborated by company site and multiple independent profiles (Crunchbase, Tracxn). Source: METYCLE, 2025
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