BASF and Heraeus to form a joint venture offering world-class precious metal recycling solutions in China

Recycled precious metals are used to make new products for the automotive, chemical, electronics and green hydrogen industries

14-Feb-2022 - BASF and Heraeus have agreed to form a joint venture (BASF: 50%; Heraeus: 50%) to recover precious metals from spent automotive catalysts. The new company named BASF HERAEUS (China) Metal Resource Co., Ltd will be set up in Pinghu, China. The founding of the legal entity is targeted in Q1 2022, ...

Heraeus Accelerator Program 2021 starts with five start-ups

Startups from Germany and Spain selected

16-Sep-2021 - Heraeus, a leading technology group, is launching its 2021 Accelerator Program with five selected start-ups: OrelTech, Fusion Bionic, Highline Technology, Intelligent Fluids from Germany and NANOGAP from Spain. The focus of the 2021 program is on start-ups developing solutions and products for ...

New technology expands ability to recycle precious metals

Strategic partnership between Heraeus and PhosphonicS

24-Aug-2011 - Precious metals like platinum and rhodium are very valuable, and also very rare. That makes it increasingly important to recycle these precious metals from a wide variety of industrial uses. For example, various catalytic processes in the chemical industry generate large amounts of fluid residue ...

Heraeus launches cooperation with top-tier Chinese university

28-Sep-2007 - The precious metals and technology group Heraeus has signed a cooperation agreement with Northeastern University in Shenyang, China, which will enhance the group's potential for research and innovation in Asia. In September Dr. Frank Heinricht, Vice Chairman of the Board of Management of Heraeus ...

South African producer of nitric acid contributes to climate protection with Heraeus innovation

Conventional platinum gauze catalyst was further optimized

22-Aug-2007 - Since early this year, the firm SASOL Nitro in South Africa has been using a newly developed multistage catalyst from the precious metals and technology group Heraeus for the selective destruction of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, in two of its nitric acid production plants. With this catalyst ...

Heraeus takes over French metal powder manufacturer

07-Aug-2007 - On July 1, 2007, the W. C. Heraeus GmbH division of the international precious metals and technology group Heraeus acquired the French company Poudres de Soudure de Précision S.A. (PSP), which is headquartered in Grésy sur Aix. Established in 1995, PSP is a manufacturer of ultra-fine metal ...

Heraeus opens new Platinum Group Metals refinery in South Africa

09-Feb-2007 - Early February saw Heraeus started up a pgm refinery in Port Elizabeth (South Africa). The Heraeus Refinery S.A. (Pty.) Limited, a subsidiary of the Group's Managing Company, W. C. Heraeus is located in close proximity to the South African automobile industry whose demand makes it one of the main ...

Heraeus Acquires Stake in Chinese Manufacturer of Gold and Silver Chemicals

27-May-2005 - W. C. Heraeus, a subsidiary of the globally active precious metals and technology group Heraeus Holding GmbH, has acquired a 60 percent interest in Shenzhen Jinsheng Precious Metals Products Ltd. in China. Based in southern China, the company manufactures gold and silver chemicals that are needed ...

Technological breakthrough made it possible to use platinum in industry

10-Sep-2004 - By the 19th century, platinum was a prized metal for jewelry manufacture. But it has a very high melting point and could not be processed on an industrial scale because the only available method of working it was a complex white-heat process. In 1856, a technological breakthrough developed by the ...

W. C. Heraeus Becomes Majority Shareholder of Vadnais Technologies Corporation

11-Aug-2004 - W. C. Heraeus GmbH & Co. KG, a subsidiary of the globally active precious metals and technology group Heraeus Holding GmbH, became 80% shareholder of Vadnais Technologies Corporation effective by August 1st. With this merger the Medical Components Division of W.C. Heraeus GmbH & Co KG continues ...