A Germany–India partnership in advanced recycling
Viyanmani is actively exploring strategic partnerships with established European recycling, refining and metallurgical technology companies to develop advanced recycling capabilities in India.
Complementary strengths, not overlapping ones
The logic of a Germany–India partnership in this sector is straightforward. German and wider European companies hold decades of accumulated process technology, engineering discipline, and environmental practice in metallurgy and recycling. What is increasingly hard to find in Europe is the combination of growing secondary feedstock and an operating cost base that makes marginal streams viable.
Viyanmani has the second half of that equation, and is candid about needing the first. We are not seeking a supplier relationship or a badge — we are seeking a technical partner whose process capability genuinely extends what we can do, and we expect to contribute the site, the capital, the material, and the people that make it work in India.
A clear division of contribution
Setting this out plainly at the start is what makes the rest of the negotiation straightforward.
Viyanmani provides
- Indian Infrastructure
An operating, access-controlled plant in an established Gujarat industrial estate, with the pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical sections, laboratory, and utilities already in place.
- Investment
Capital commitment to the Indian entity — site, buildings, equipment, and working capital — so a partner's contribution can be weighted toward technology rather than cash.
- Feedstock Sourcing
Established collection channels for spent autocatalysts, chemical catalysts, electronic scrap, and industrial residues across one of the world's fastest-growing vehicle parcs.
- Workforce
Trained plant operators, chemists, and metallurgists, and the ability to recruit and scale a technical team at Indian cost levels.
- Local Regulatory Support
Familiarity with Indian environmental and hazardous-waste regulation, pollution-control board procedure, import and customs formalities, and company-law compliance.
- Local Market Access
Relationships across Indian automotive, chemical, petrochemical, electronics, and jewellery sectors — both as sources of feed material and as customers for refined metal.
Partner provides
- Technology
Proven, industrially demonstrated process technology for recovery, separation, and refining — including routes Viyanmani does not currently operate.
- Process Know-How
The operating knowledge that does not appear in a flowsheet: reagent regimes, control strategies, yield optimisation, and troubleshooting built up over years of production.
- Engineering
Basic and detailed engineering, mass and energy balances, equipment sizing, layout, and the safety and environmental design standards expected in European practice.
- Equipment
Specification, supply, or sourcing of specialised process equipment — furnaces, scrubbing systems, solvent-extraction circuits, and analytical instrumentation.
- Training
Structured training for operators, laboratory staff, and engineers, whether at the partner's facility in Europe or on site in India during commissioning.
- Technical Support
Ongoing technical support after commissioning — remote assistance, periodic audits, process reviews, and access to the partner's continuing R&D.
Why this combination works
German engineering, Indian scale
European process technology is mature and proven but faces high operating costs and, in several streams, limited domestic feed. India has the opposite profile: growing feedstock and competitive costs, with less access to advanced process technology.
An operating plant, not a greenfield
Viyanmani already refines precious metals at a working facility in Gujarat. A partner is not funding a site search and a construction programme before seeing anything work.
Regulatory tailwind on both sides
European extended producer responsibility and critical-raw-material policy are pushing companies to secure recycled supply, while India's tightening waste rules favour formal, compliant processors.
A staged commitment
The relationship can begin with a toll-processing trial that risks very little on either side, and deepen into licensing or shared equity only once the technical and commercial case is demonstrated.
Five structures, from lightest to deepest
We have no fixed preference. The right structure depends on how much technology transfer is involved and how much each side wants to commit.
Technology Partnership
Bring a proven process to an operating Indian plant, with Viyanmani carrying the local execution.
- Process know-how and flowsheet transfer
- Joint trials on Indian feed material
- Viyanmani operates; partner supervises technically
Job-Work / Toll Processing
Send material to us for processing and take your metal back — you retain ownership throughout.
- Principal retains title to the material
- Agreed treatment and refining charges
- Metal returned in kind, or credited to account
Technology Licensing
License your process for the Indian market under defined territorial and royalty terms.
- Defined territory and field of use
- Licensor retains ownership of the IP
- Royalty, entry fee, or hybrid structure
Joint Venture
A jointly owned Indian company combining partner technology with Viyanmani infrastructure and capital.
- Jointly owned Indian operating company
- Contributions in technology and in capital or assets
- Shared governance under a shareholders' agreement
Plant Engineering & Turnkey Partnership
Design and build a new or expanded line, from basic engineering through commissioning.
- Basic and detailed engineering
- Equipment specification and supply
- Erection supervision and commissioning
Our current areas of interest
Advanced PGM recovery and refining
Higher-yield routes for spent autocatalyst and chemical catalyst, improved rhodium separation, and refining technology that raises consistency across variable feed.
Battery and critical-material recycling
A capability we are evaluating rather than operating. A technology partner would be central to entering this stream properly.
See what we are evaluatingEmissions, effluent, and environmental systems
European standards in off-gas treatment, effluent handling, and residue management — both for compliance and because it is the right way to run a plant of this kind.
Process control and automation
Instrumentation, control strategy, and data systems that improve consistency, traceability, and the auditability of what we report to clients.
Exploring an India partnership? Let's talk.
We are happy to sign an NDA, share technical and company documentation, host a visit to the plant in Gujarat, or travel to meet you.