150 years of recycling precious metals
Here, at our factory premises in Hamar, recycling takes place every day, and we have utilized precious metals as a renewable resource since before our grandparents were born.
We go to great lengths to create and manage value in a responsible and environmentally conscious manner. And we consistently focus on acquiring the necessary knowledge, expertise, and equipment required to operate and develop our business in increasingly sustainable ways.
A Unique Renewable Material
Precious metals have the fantastic property that they can be recycled again and again without compromising quality. Therefore, we have enormous respect for the raw materials we use, and these valuable metals are constantly being utilized in new industrial areas and in groundbreaking inventions that will reach new customers and markets.
Responsible Operations in Relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Being the Nordic region’s largest refiner and supplier of precious metals also comes with responsibility. We aim to be a pioneering company and an innovator that leads the way in sustainable operations and development. Our strategy is therefore based on – and compatible with – the UN Sustainable Development Goals, where we have concretized three main areas for our sustainability work and our future goals: social conditions, climate and environment, and economic conditions.
Social Sustainability
Sustainability is not just about climate and environment, but also about us humans. It is primarily we who together constitute K.A. Rasmussen and everything we achieve. We, the people, are the most important resources, and we should all have equal opportunities to be seen and heard every day.
As a workplace, we have a social responsibility to ensure good, safe jobs. It is our job to ensure that all our employees go to work with a smile, experience well-being, and have the opportunity to develop and utilize their potential. Working environment, diversity, safe surroundings, decent wages and working conditions, and equality are therefore central areas in our HR policy – and in our commitment to our colleagues.
We therefore set strict requirements for our own safety procedures and have a zero-vision for injuries and accidents.
New Technology Makes Us Increasingly Resource-Efficient
Giving new life to old metal, and thereby developing innovations for the benefit and use of both the private market and global industry, is a positive and necessary endeavor. The recycling of precious metals is important, and only in this way can we ensure availability in the future. Extracting precious metals from mine ore requires large amounts of resources and is a source of environmentally harmful emissions, while the burden of recycling is significantly lower, even though our refining processes also involve substantial chemical consumption. However, with new technology and solutions, we see opportunities to make these processes more resource-efficient, with the goal of cutting our chemical consumption by 20% compared to 2020.
New Life for Old Gold and Silver
Sometimes, old gold and silver deserve a new life, and at K.A. Rasmussen, you will be met by experienced advisors who respect and understand you and your reasons for delivering, for example, inherited gold and silver for remelting and refining.
K.A. Rasmussen offers a service where we appraise and purchase gold and silver from private customers, and earning the trust of our customers is something we manage carefully every day. Everyone who contacts us to have inherited gold and silver appraised and sold for remelting is treated with complete confidentiality.
Here, you will meet advisors who help you weigh sentimental value against economic value, and with us, you are guaranteed a fair settlement, secure handling, and absolutely no resale.
An Important Supplier to Some of the World’s Largest Agricultural Producers
K.A. Rasmussen is an international company, with subsidiaries and sales offices in 4 countries. Within the factory premises in Hamar, innovation and technical development take place that have reached far beyond national borders. Here, over decades, products have been created and further developed that are exported to some of the world’s largest agricultural producers.
Values for Generations
We are proud of the cycles that take place at K.A. Rasmussen, both concerning the recycling of precious metals – and not least the skilled and knowledgeable people who, throughout history, have established, developed, and paved the way for the business from 1872 to the present day. With knowledge, insight, technology, tradition, and innovation, we are equipped for new inventions, markets, applications, and customer groups in the future as well. We will continue to create value for generations.