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Top 25 Metal recyclers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 426 metal recyclers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,424 professional contacts across them, including 773 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers metal recyclers headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest metal recyclers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 128 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ward are the largest independent metal recycling and waste management companies in the UK, providing professional waste management services, local & national skip hire on a range…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over four decades, Mastermelt Group has been a trusted global leader in the recovery and recycling of precious metals, combining industrial expertise with a deep commitment to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Global Ardour is an industry-leading scrap metal processor contributing towards circular economy by helping our customers reduce, reuse, and recycle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ELG Metals UK Limited is one of the leading companies in the United Kingdom for the recycling of Stainless Steel and Alloy materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The S Norton Group supports the circular economy by collecting, processing and distributing approximately 1.5m tonnes of recycled metals each year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Caledonian Alloys was established in Livingston, Scotland in 1996 to focus specifically on the processing and recycling of Nickel, Cobalt and Titanium base alloys for the high…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re a family business that started out in 1987.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wogen is a reliable and friendly supplier of off-exchange non-ferrous and "Minor Metals" to industrial end users the world over.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amalgamated Metal Corporation PLC (“AMC”) is a non-ferrous metals company, with activities in the recycling, trading, and upgrading of metals used in the electrification of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We sell high quality polymer, aggregate and solid recovered fuel materials, produced from our own processing plants here in Manchester.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Enicor was founded in 2023, after KJB Consulting acquired BW Riddle, a metal recycling business of over 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Romco is a metals recycling company producing secondary materials for a large range of OEM's and trading partners globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in Hamilton, Scotland, Ireland Alloys Ltd was established in 1964 with a site over square feet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Benfleet Scrap Co operate in the metal and waste recycling Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Global Metcorp is a trusted international trading house specializing in raw material products for primary steel production, including ferrous scrap.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sackers Scrap Metal Recycling At Sackers, we offer scrap metal disposal which includes skip hire, recycling and safe disposal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JBMI Group Ltd, founded in 1978, is a leading aluminium alloy ingot manufacturer in the UK, with a production capacity of tonnes of branded ingots annually.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From today's Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment to tomorrow's polymer products and components, our state-of-the-art recycling process…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Nottingham, JMC McIntyre is the UK's largest manufacturer of metal recycling equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tandom has both the in-depth knowledge and specialist facilities to process most grades of material and exploit their full value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Associated Lead Mills Ltd (ALM) is the UK’s lead supplier of Enviro-Lead and high-quality roofing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RECYCLING.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialising in the recycling and recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, general waste and ELV (End-of-life Vehicles), TotalWM are passionate about ensuring that each of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: metal recyclers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names metal recyclers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of metal recyclers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name metal recyclers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Metal recyclers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 426 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among metal recyclers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “metal recyclers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names metal recyclers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among metal recyclers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 773 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Metal recyclers by metro
- Metal recyclers in London45
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names metal recyclers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many metal recyclers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 426 metal recyclers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Unimetals Group, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most metal recyclers?
London leads with 45 headquartered companies, followed by Sheffield (16) and Birmingham (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 773 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 426 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.