Environment & Circular Economy

Global ESG regulation — the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — is changing how manufacturers source materials. Where and how a material was made is now a competitive factor in its own right. For precious metals in particular, responsible sourcing has become a central criterion in supply chain assessment.

At the same time, precious metal price volatility is a leading risk to manufacturing cost competitiveness. Closed-loop models that recover and refine materials after use are drawing attention as a sustainable way to secure supply chain stability and resource efficiency at once.

LT Metal minimizes environmental pollutants across the full product cycle — development, production, and disposal — and complies rigorously with environmental law. We work continuously to cut energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and we hold environmental responsibility as a core value of our management. To maximize the circular value of precious metals, LT Metal has built a recovery, refining, and reuse system that delivers resource efficiency and environmental responsibility at once.

Precious metal materials supplied by LT Metal are used in customer production, then collected as scrap, spent solutions, or spent catalyst and passed through LT Metal’s recovery and refining processes to be reborn as raw material. This closed-loop model minimizes the waste of precious metal feedstock and reduces dependence on mining, lowering environmental burden in real terms.

Mining one kilogram of gold takes tens of tons of ore and consumes energy and water on a large scale. Recovering precious metals from spent materials yields the same quantity of feedstock with far less energy. LT Metal’s Precious metal recovery inquiry business is not simply a service; it is ESG in practice, raising the circular value of resources and strengthening the sustainability of the global supply chain.

We hold recovery and refining capability across all six precious metals: Au (gold), Ag (silver), Pt (platinum), Pd (palladium), Rh (rhodium), and Ru (ruthenium). We recover them from electrical and electronic scrap, spent display targets, solar and fuel cell materials, petrochemical spent catalyst, pharmaceutical process residues, and other spent materials, and regenerate them as high-purity raw material.

When a company prepares its sustainability (ESG) report, its use of recovered precious metal materials from LT Metal can support the management and reporting of responsible sourcing indicators. LT Metal provides transaction records, recovery data, and certificates of composition in structured form to support customer ESG reporting and disclosure.