Precious Metal Business contents

Precious metal recovery and refining

We're proud to help customers conserve precious metal resources
by proposing a variety of management solutions involving
preciousmetal resource circulation.

An advanced refiner that underpins technology

Matsuda Sangyo’s precious metal smelting business, which originated in the recovery and smelting of silver contained in photographic photosensitive agents, supplies industry with solutions focusing on the conservation and effective use of precious metal resources. We’ve pursued recycling of precious metals, which play an essential role in manufacturing, since Japan was taking its first steps on the road to becoming a superpower in the electronics industry. Today, we’ve broadened our business domain to include providing solutions for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Precious metal life cycle management
＜MATSUDA 360° Recycle Solution＞

As a company with more than 70 years of experience in precious metal recovery, refining, and recycling, we offer a precious metal life cycle management program that provides an intelligent, one-stop, closed-loop solution for precious metal resource circulation management.
This program realizes high-speed recycling of unparalleled quality while using a variety of payment methods to reduce manufacturing costs and improve cash flow.

Please contact us with your precious metal life cycle management needs
and requirements.

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Recycling system

A recovery and refining system that yields high recovery rates for high-purity precious metals, with an overarching focus on safety, peace of mind, and trust

Our precious metal recycling system is geared to ensuring effective use of valuable resources. We use an integrated system at our own plant, which employs strict security structures designed to ensure confidentiality and boasts high recovery rates, to process scrap containing precious metals collected from manufacturers in Japan and overseas, from pre-treatment processes such as crushing and firing to smelting and refining processes that separate and extract precious metals. That system yields high-purity gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, and other substances, which we use to manufacture base metals as well as industrial-use precious metal products such as processed products and chemical products.

Principal targets of precious metal recovery and refining (sources)

Semiconductors and electronic components	Surface treatment		Chemicals
Au Ag Pt Pd Rh Ru
ICs, LSIs, and other devices Chip components Cloths holding paste waste Vacuum film formation system fixtures Vapor deposition and target materials Other electronic materials, etc.	Plating waste liquid Sludge Drag-out liquid Activated carbon resin Plated components Recovery equipment, etc.	Plating fixtures Stamp scrap Shavings Printed circuit boards Terminal connectors	Catalysts Electrode materials, etc.
Photosensitive materials	Medical	Jewelry	Other
Au Ag Pt Pd Rh Ru
Silver halide film Fixer Recovery equipment, etc.	Dental alloys Silver halide film, etc.	Jewelry alloys Buffing grit Shavings, etc.	Other metal scrap Cu, Al, Ti, alloy 42, etc.

Recovery and refining processes

Certifications

Certified melter, London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)
Certified melter, London Platinum and Palladium Market (LPPM)
Brand certified for contract fulfillment, Osaka Exchange(OSE) (gold, silver, platinum, palladium)
ISO 9001/14001/15408 certified
UL 2809 (recycled content)
Permits for disposal, collection, and transport of industrial waste and specially controlled industrial waste
Licensed antique dealer