Behind the Booth: ReMA2026 Sponsor Previews – Aurubis

Excited to explore ReMA2026 – The Show’s exhibit hall but not sure where to start? No problem. 

ReMA News spoke with several of the convention’s top sponsors for a sneak peek at what attendees can expect from their booths and find out what these companies are looking forward to at ReMA2026.

Naveed Moghadam, Commercial Director, Recycling Raw Materials – Aurubis

What is new from Aurubis that attendees can look forward to at ReMA2026?

Aurubis is a company headquartered in Germany — and at ReMA2026 we want suppliers to know what Aurubis Richmond delivers for their business: a flexible “one-stop shop” for a broad range of metal-bearing recycling materials, backed by transparent, fair pricing, and settlements based on precise assays.

We were interested in entering the U.S. recycling market and began greenfield construction in 2022 at Aurubis Richmond, located in Augusta, Georgia. This is the first and most technologically advanced multimetal recycling smelter in North America, and we are ramping up operations through 2026. Aurubis Richmond is designed to process up to 180,000 tons of complex recycling material annually, with an expansion stage starting in 2026. 

We recover different strategic metals, such as copper, nickel, tin, and precious metals from complex recycling materials, including printed circuit boards and copper cable.

We’re especially focused on shredder heavies, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and auto shred insulated copper wire (ICW). We’re also looking at mixed brasses, slags, and residues.

At ReMA2026, we’re looking forward to meeting with our key stakeholders as well as making new connections and looking at opportunities for partnership and collaboration. The ReMA convention is the biggest show of the year for us, and we will have between 7-10 people from Aurubis who will be in attendance.

This year, Aurubis is sponsoring the ReMA side stage. Why did that sponsorship appeal to the company?

There is a very big audience at the ReMA convention, and the side stage level allowed us to be the most effective in reaching a broad audience without competing with the size and scope of the market. We’re excited to be part of the show and to raise awareness about Aurubis, especially in the U.S. recycling market.

In September 2025, Aurubis Richmond held its first melt. Tell me about the event and its significance.

It was a celebration of the beginning of our production capabilities. Participants of the “First Melt” celebration included Rick W. Allen, U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 12th District, Jens Hanefeld, German Ambassador to the United States, and several high-profile guests from politics and business. Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp also sent a special video message for the event.

For us, it was proof of our capability to process complex recycling materials domestically and begin producing strategic metals that are essential for areas like energy infrastructure, data centers and AI applications, and the defense industry. It’s a key part of the critical materials supply chain. Our goal is to keep a lot of the materials in the U.S. that would otherwise go to export and process and smelt them here.

Aurubis is entering the U.S. recycling market at the perfect time: The U.S. market has high potential, while the significance of critical metals is rising steadily as well. A notable increase in collection volumes is positively contributing to the availability of recyclable, metal-bearing materials in the U.S. Most of the recycling materials have been exported to Asia up to this point.

With the new U.S. recycling plant, Aurubis is now a forerunner in multimetal recycling in the U.S., a position the company already holds in Europe. The use of metallurgical technologies that are proven in the market yet still innovative, together with a flexible input mix, makes Aurubis Richmond a “one-stop shop” for local suppliers.

We want the recycled materials industry to know that we’re looking for partners in the North America market. We see Aurubis as being critical to the U.S. supply chain, so we’ve made this investment to allow recyclers in the U.S. to have a U.S. option for this broad category of materials that would otherwise go to export.