- CEO
- Fumikatsu Sano
- Full Time Employees
- 620
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Wholesale distributors
- Address
- 87-1 Tanaka-cho Fujinomiya SZ Japan 418-0075
- IPO Date
- Sep 25, 2013
- Business
- Envipro Holdings Inc. Envipro Holdings Inc. (5698.T) is a Japan-based holding company primarily engaged in resource recycling and circular economy initiatives through its subsidiaries. The company operates across three main segments: Resource Circulation, which collects, handles, transports, and processes metal scrap, industrial waste, and waste materials from factories and demolished properties into ferrous scrap, nonferrous metals including copper, aluminum, and stainless steel, plastics, rubber products, and solid fuels; Global Trading, which collects, purchases, sells, imports, exports recycled resources, wood biomass fuel, used cars, and metal scrap while providing logistics services for international trade; and Lithium-ion Battery Recycling, which dries, shreds, sorts process waste and used batteries to produce minor metal concentrated sand containing cobalt, nickel, and other rare metals. Additional operations encompass environment management consulting and welfare services for people with disabilities. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, with a Tokyo office, Envipro Holdings serves domestic Japanese markets and international customers, managing eleven consolidated subsidiaries and two equity-method affiliates with a focus on Japan, Asia, and global trading hubs. Recent developments include signing a memorandum of understanding with HyProMag for rare earth magnet recycling technology; establishing a joint venture company by a consolidated subsidiary; opening a new overseas trading base for recycled resources in August; completing a tender offer to acquire Nitto Kako Co., Ltd. (Securities Code: 5104) as a specified subsidiary; acquiring land and a building in Ibaraki Prefecture for a new lithium-ion battery recycling plant to triple processing capacity to 7,500 tons annually with operations starting in 2024; advancing joint development with Mitsubishi Materials Corporation for hydrometallurgical refining of minor metals from black mass; conducting third-party verification of greenhouse gas emissions; and publishing its Sustainability Report 2024 alongside ongoing treasury share acquisitions and market segment transition efforts.