Excess Materials Exchange (EME) is a digital marketplace and RaaS platform that matches businesses' surplus materials to high-value reuse, recycling and secondary markets using AI-driven matchmaking and digital product passports (QR/RFID).
Circularity Relevance
Core
Site describes EME as a digital matching marketplace explicitly designed to enable reuse, recycling and circularity across materials and industries. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Circular Role
DirectEnabler
EME operates a marketplace and transaction platform that directly matches and facilitates exchanges of materials between organisations, indicating it functions as a DirectEnabler. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Circular Type
Marketplace
• Materials
• Products
• B2B
EME is a multi-actor marketplace for businesses to buy/sell excess materials and products; primary matchmaking is B2B. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Primary evidence: marketplace for reuse (R3) and support for recycling/resource recovery (R8). Secondary support for rethink/access-based delivery (R1) and reduction of waste/material use (R2) via optimisation and reporting features. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Circular Business Model
Resale / Second-hand, Circular Logistics
Primary function is a marketplace matching suppliers and buyers of excess materials (Resale). The platform also organises transactions, tracking and movement of materials (Circular Logistics). Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Organisational Type
ForProfit
Operates as a commercial platform with client contracts, marketplace transactions and presence on business listings (Dealroom, Third Derivative). No explicit non-profit status found. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Sector
All / Any
Website states the platform supports businesses from any sector and handles all types of excess materials (scrap metals, plastics, bricks, textiles, machinery, etc.). Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Geographical Reach
International
• Netherlands
Operates from offices in the Netherlands and the UK and lists international clients (e.g. BASF, ABB, Carlsberg); evidence of multi-country operations but not explicit global HQ claim. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Hardware Component
None
Platform integrates Product Passports that use QR codes and RFID tags for tracking, but there is no clear evidence the company supplies or deploys specialised hardware devices as part of service delivery. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
Tech Map Relevance
Platform directly matches surplus materials for reuse and recycling and provides product passports, AI matchmaking and reporting - clearly relevant to the Circular Tech Map. Source: Excess Materials Exchange, 2025
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