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Pioneering India's Circular Economy

We are pioneering circular economy solutions for India's end-of-life vehicle (ELV) and automotive recycling sector.

Urban PGM Company

Urban PGM helps India achieve its circular economy objectives by purchasing and recycling spent catalysts to enable further catalytic converter production, making the metal market more sustainable.

We embrace the Government's Auto Shredding Policy 2021 for a structured recycling ecosystem and support India's 2070 Carbon Neutral Goals.

We believe: Sustainable Materials are Not a Choice, They're a Necessity.

Our Mission

  • We Recycle for better future
  • We Empower auto & metal markets to become more sustainable
  • We Empower local scrappers & kawadiwala to have access to all the tools and become part of formal trade
  • We democratise the intrinsic value of converters

The Problem We're Solving

India lacks a transparent and structured ecosystem for pricing and collecting catalytic converter scrap—despite its high intrinsic value. This leads to exploitation, under-collection, and informal recycling.

Improper handling leads to metal losses, pollution, and worker health risks due to dust exposure (platinum, palladium, rhodium). Catcons vary widely by car model and manufacturer, and most buyers lack knowledge of intrinsic value. This leads to undervaluation and loss for the actual seller (vehicle owner or scrap dealer). Catalytic converters fall under hazardous waste (B1130). Limited oversight on who collects, processes, or sells spent converters, This raises serious compliance, environmental, and AML risks.

Informal recycling problem

Our Innovation

We're a full-service data-backed platform that leverages global pricing benchmarks, enables real-time, location-specific value discovery, and offers guaranteed logistics & payment fulfillment.

We have catalogued thousands of individual converters and help you to value converters.

For Indian perspective we devised the Model based pricing through our proprietary Technology.

We ensure traceability of each converter so that you remain sure, where your converter has gone.

Professional recycling process

What We Recycle

Catalytic Converters

Ceramic & Metallic types

Various Catalytic Converters

Spent Catalyst

All forms of automotive catalysts

Catalytic Converter Types

How We Do It

Tech-Enabled Supply Chains

Tech enabled supply chains that formalize and empower the informal sector.

Full Compliance

As a fully compliant organisation, we follow OECD Responsible Sourcing and LPPM due diligence protocols, operate only through formal banking, and never deal in cash.

Mission-Driven Team

A team who works for mission to formalise Recycling in India.

No Cash Policy

We operate only through formal banking and never deal in cash for fair valuation.

Our Core Values

We do what we say. We say what we do.

Transparency, Ethics and Integrity are our core values. We follow OECD Responsible Sourcing and LPPM due diligence protocols, operate only through formal banking, and never deal in cash.

Urban PGM - Catalyst for Recycling