Argentex (Pty) Ltd
Precious metal recovery, starting with end-of-life solar.
We recover precious metals from solar panel back-sheets and other metal-bearing e-waste, refine them to investment grade, and return the recovered value to the regional economy as bullion.
The opportunity
A value stream that leaves the region
Solar is where this begins. South Africa installed an estimated 11 gigawatts of capacity through the energy-supply crisis of recent years, and solar build-out continues across the region. Those panels carry a finite life. As they reach the end of it, the glass, the aluminium frames and the junction boxes are already recovered by licensed recyclers.
The back-sheet, which holds the precious metal, is not. The same gap runs through other electronic waste streams that still carry recoverable metal. Today this material is stockpiled, sent to landfill, or exported for processing abroad, and its value leaves with it. Argentex exists to close that gap.
What we do
Controlled recovery, investment-grade metal
We take back-sheet material and metal-bearing e-waste from licensed recyclers and recover the precious metals through a controlled refining process. Each metal is refined to investment grade and sold into the bullion and commodity markets.
We carry the processing, the equipment and the operational risk, so our supply partners turn a stockpiled waste stream into recurring value without carrying any of the cost.
How we work with recyclers
Alongside the industry, not against it
Argentex is built to work alongside the existing recycling industry, not against it. Licensed recyclers already do the heavy work of collection and primary separation. We add the step the market is missing: commercial precious metal recovery.
Material flows to us, value flows back, and a waste stream that used to carry a disposal cost becomes a source of revenue.
Responsibility
Value retained in the material
Recovering precious metals close to source retains the value held in the material rather than exporting it for others to capture, and it keeps end-of-life panels and e-waste out of landfill and out of export containers.
We operate to the environmental and licensing standards the work demands, with traceability from the input material through to the refined metal.
Argentex
Commercial precious metal recovery for the region, built by people who know its solar, e-waste and refining industries.
Company
The team
Argentex brings together commercial, operational and technical experience drawn from the region's solar, e-waste and refining industries.
- Beyers Visagie Managing Director Operations, supplier development and plant management. beyers@argentex.co.za
Contact
Get in touch
Registered office
Argentex (Pty) Ltd
39A First Avenue East,
Parktown North, Johannesburg, 2193