150 years of recycling precious metals
Here at our factory premises in Hamar, recycling takes place every single day. For generations, we have extracted precious metals from used products and residual materials, returning them to the cycle as new raw materials. In this way, for over 150 years, we have contributed to preserving valuable resources and reducing the need for new extraction.
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 unique property that they can be recycled again and again without their quality or properties deteriorating. Therefore, we treat raw materials with great respect – every gram counts. Through recycling, we give valuable metals new life, allowing them to be reused, both in existing and in entirely new industrial applications.
Responsible operations and our contribution to a more sustainable future
As the Nordic region’s largest refiner and supplier of precious metals, we have a clear responsibility. We aim to be a pioneering company and an innovator that leads the way in sustainable operations and development. The core of our business is precisely to safeguard valuable resources and return them to the cycle.
Every day, we contribute to reducing the need for new mining, preserving scarce resources, and facilitating a more circular economy. Through this work, we support several of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to responsible consumption and production, climate and environment, and decent work. Our goal is to further develop our business in a way that creates value, both for society, our customers, and future generations.
It is our employees who, every day, make up K.A. Rasmussen and everything we achieve. Therefore, it is important for us to create a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to be seen and heard, thrive, and develop.
We have a clear responsibility to ensure safe and good working conditions. Working environment, diversity, equality, and decent wages and working conditions are a natural part of how we operate our business. We set strict safety requirements and have a zero-vision for injuries and accidents – because everyone should come home safely from work.
You can read more about how we work with this in practice in our sustainability report, our report on work for equality and non-discrimination (ARP), and in the statement on due diligence assessments under the Transparency Act.
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. But with new technology and new solutions, we see opportunities to make these processes more resource-efficient.
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.
