# Metal & Catalyst Resources > Metal & Catalyst Resources (MCR), founded in 1999 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, is an industrial metals reclamation company that buys, recycles, reclaims, and refines metals from spent catalysts, metal scrap, residues, sludges, and slurries generated by petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing operations. MCR also sells high-purity raw minor metals and compounds, and is the exclusive US agent for FerroBio iron hydroxide powder used in biogas desulfurization. MCR's founder has more than fifty years of combined industry experience in catalyst and spent catalyst recycling and reclamation. The company handles Nickel (Ni), Cobalt (Co), Molybdenum (Mo), Vanadium (V), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), and the precious/platinum group metals Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd), Rhodium (Rh), Rhenium (Re), Ruthenium (Ru), Gold (Au), Iridium (Ir), and Silver (Ag), plus specialty metals such as Tungsten, Selenium, Chromium, Tellurium, Yttrium, Europium, Niobium, Neodymium, Gallium, and Gadolinium. MCR takes ownership of spent materials at pickup, carries insurance for transit and processing, coordinates global logistics (freight forwarding agents on six continents), and manages DOT/RCRA/Basel Convention hazardous waste compliance. Materials are processed through a global network of refineries using pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical routes (calcining, leaching, precipitation, filtration, roasting, smelting, and electrolytic refining), with fire assay/ICP/wet-chemistry analysis and certificates of reclamation available. All content below reflects the live site as of the crawl date; consult the linked pages directly for current details, since pricing, specifications, and product forms are subject to change and always require direct contact with MCR's Commercial Department. ## Company - [Homepage](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/): Company overview — a "one-stop" metals reclamation and catalyst recycling service for industrial producers and refiners, with fifty-plus years of combined experience. - [Our History](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/mcrhistory/): Founded in 1999; details on ownership/insurance model, worldwide freight forwarding network, NDAs with catalyst manufacturers, and hazardous waste import/export permitting experience. - [Contact Us](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/contact/): Contact form, Commercial Department phone (713) 664-0050 and fax (713) 664-0194, and mailing address (1513 West Dallas Street, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77019, USA). ## Metal Recycling Services - [Metal Recycling Services (overview)](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/): Hub page covering Cobalt, Copper/Zinc, Molybdenum, Nickel, Precious Metals, and Vanadium recycling; includes FAQ on material types, hazardous waste classifications (K-171, K-172), pricing factors, and geographic coverage. - [Precious Metal Refining Services](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/precious-metal-refining/): Refining (toll refining or outright purchase) of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium from catalysts, ashes, sludges, filter cakes, solutions, and scrap via calcining, leaching, precipitation, and filtration; global refinery network. - [Precious Metal Recovery & Recycling](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/precious-metals/): Recovery/reclaiming programs for platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, silver, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium from spent catalysts, filter cakes, sludges, plated parts, and e-scrap concentrates, with sampling, assay, and compliance documentation. - [Copper Recycling & Refining Services](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/copper/): Recovery of copper (15–60% typical concentration) and zinc (30–90%) from catalysts, slag, residues, and scrap using hydrometallurgical leaching, precipitation, and high-temperature reduction. - [Nickel Recycling Services](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/nickel/): Recovery of nickel (6–80% typical concentration) from spent catalysts, battery scrap, slag, and residues; notes ~68% of global nickel supply comes from reclaimed material. - [Molybdenum Recycling Services](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/molybdenum/): Recovery of molybdenum (3–52% typical concentration, including RCRA-hazardous K-171/K-172 hydrotreating/HDS catalysts) via roasting, dissolution, and selective precipitation; also buys molybdenum-catalyst inert ceramic support beads. - [Vanadium Recycling Services](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/metal-recycling-services/vanadium/): Recovery of vanadium from spent catalysts, ashes, slags, and concentrates via calcining/oxidation and leaching; founder involved in vanadium markets since 1975; end products include vanadium pentoxide, ferrovanadium, and vanadium salts. ## Raw Material Sales - [Raw Minor Metal Sales](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/raw-minor-metal-sales/): Sells nickel products (including proprietary 68–78% black nickel oxide), cobalt oxide and salts, molybdenum chemicals (ammonium molybdates, molybdenum disulfide, MoO3), vanadium compounds (V2O5, vanadates, ferrovanadium), copper/zinc concentrates, tellurium dioxide (typical assay ~79.72% Te, packaged in 25kg pails), and other minor metals (sulfur, magnesium/niobium ingots, rhenium, selenium, tantalum scrap, and various ores). ## Specialty Products - [FerroBio Iron Hydroxide Powder](https://www.metalandcatalyst.com/ferrobio-iron-hydroxide-powder/): MCR is the exclusive US agent for The FerroBio Group's OMRI-certified, natural iron hydroxide powder used for Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) removal in anaerobic digesters and biogas plants (food/dairy/pig/poultry waste, municipal waste, water treatment). Offered in three grades — standard FerroBio, fast-acting FerroBio+, and FerroBio Ammonia (also reduces ammonia) — shipped from US stock in 20kg bags or 1-ton supersacks.