Retired doesn't mean worthless. SUNREC uses intelligent mobile triage and advanced recovery technologies to identify, recover and redirect value from every panel — whether through reuse, refurbishment or material recovery.
Today's recyclers strip out the glass and the aluminium frame — low-margin materials — and throw away the rest. Buried in that "rest" is high-purity silver and silicon, the two materials that make up most of a panel's real economic value.
Three separate buyers, one panel: a marketplace buyer for second-life units, a local scrap buyer for aluminium and glass, and a metals buyer for recovered silver.
Mechanically strips the aluminium frame from a retired panel without damaging the glass or cell laminate underneath.
A low-scale, working prototype that diagnoses which retired panels still qualify for resale.
EL imaging, IV-curve analysis and computer vision, improving with every panel the network processes.
Pushing past today's published recovery-versus-purity ceiling in electrostatic concentration.
Mandatory digital waste tracking and tougher fines from 2026 in the UK, with an equivalent framework tightening across the EU.
Solar already consumes a significant share of global silver supply. Recycling is one of the few available levers on the supply side.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1157 phases in from May 2026 — a window to get ahead with an already-compliant process.
Genuine waste volume is already growing fast in Spain, and grows structurally across the rest of Europe from the mid-2030s.
Home base. R&D, mobile-unit manufacturing, and the software behind our diagnostics and marketplace.
HeadquartersFirst deployment market — mobile triage, pilot permits, and the early marketplace listings.
Pilot underwayA single centralised site handling delamination and hydrometallurgical silver recovery.
PlannedInvestor, solar operator, or someone who wants to send us panels — we want to hear from you.