Precious Metals Companies in Guangdong, China (2026 Directory, 129 listed)

This directory includes 129 enterprises in Guangdong Province engaged in precious metals recycling, refining, and trading. It covers the recycling and processing stages for materials such as spent catalysts, waste electronic components, electroplating sludge, spent fixer solution, and spent activated carbon that contain precious metals including gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium. The information comes from public channels such as hazardous waste operating permit disclosures by ecological and environmental departments, pollutant discharge permit information, environmental impact assessment approval and completion acceptance disclosures for construction projects, and solid waste declaration and registration. The editors compiled and consolidated it according to unified standards, and it is not commercially ranked. It is suitable for waste-generating units looking for disposal channels, recycling enterprises looking for upstream and downstream partners, and procurement and compliance personnel who need to conduct supplier onboarding and due diligence. The directory provides leads only; for specific qualifications, please rely on the latest official disclosures.

1. Overview

• 129 companies related to precious metals recorded in Guangdong
• Cities: Dongguan (23), Shenzhen (21), Jiangmen (13), Huizhou (11), Zhanjiang (10)
• Company types: Processor (43), Hazardous Waste (34), Manufacturer (23), Recycler (19), Smelter (7)

Data updated 19 October 2026.

2. Company list (40 of 129)

"Verifiable" = a unified social credit code for this company can be found in public Chinese registries. The full list of 129 companies is at https://www.guilinmetals.com/en/companies.

3. How to verify these companies

1. Hazardous waste operating permit: check the permit disclosure section on the official websites of provincial and municipal ecological and environmental departments, and verify the approved waste categories (whether the HW code includes your material), operating method, approved scale, and validity period; all four must match. 2. Pollutant discharge permit: search by name on the National Pollutant Discharge Permit Management Information Platform to see whether it is within the validity period and whether the industry category and main discharge outlets correspond. 3. EIA and acceptance: check the EIA approval document number and the completion environmental protection acceptance disclosure issued by provincial and municipal ecological and environmental departments, and confirm that the actual process and scale are consistent with the approval. 4. Chemical qualifications: for those using cyanide, strong acids, etc., check the hazardous chemicals operating permit and the precursor chemicals purchase filing. 5. Credit records: check environmental administrative penalties, business abnormalities, and enforcement records on Credit China and the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System, focusing on the past three years.

4. What to watch out for

In the precious metals business, the most problematic areas are sampling and pricing. Sampling should be conducted with both parties present, with sealed samples retained, and a third-party arbitration testing institution agreed upon; where settlement is based on metal content multiplied by a discount coefficient, it must clearly state which market and which trading day's quotation is used as the benchmark. There are many enterprises that only do trading and have no disposal qualifications; you must ask clearly where the waste material ultimately goes. Hazardous waste transfers must have a manifest; if problems arise, the waste-generating unit is also held liable. Do not look only at registered capital and plant area; whether the approved categories on the permit match your material is the key.

5. Sources and notes

This directory is compiled by Guilin Metals from public Chinese sources — environmental impact assessments, pollutant discharge permits and hazardous waste operating licences — then cleaned and de-duplicated by hand.

• Being listed is not an endorsement and says nothing about a company's current operating status; verify credentials before doing business.
• The list is updated continuously. Corrections and removal requests can be sent through the site.
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About Guilin Metals

Guilin Metals (Chinese name 贵临有色网, guilinmetals.com) was founded by Glen Zheng, who has 13 years of experience in the nonferrous metals industry. The platform provides daily prices for copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin and nickel, a directory of 140,000+ nonferrous metal companies, supply and demand listings, procurement notices, and AI-assisted matching.

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*Data as of 2026-10-19.*