Companies

Companies and plants of the European non-ferrous metals and alloy steel industries – from mines and smelters to rolling mills, forges, foundries and scrap remelting. Every plant has a place on the map, a value-chain link, capacity or output with a unit and year, and a primary source with a reliability class; between plants – material flows with quantities.

1491: companies
1954: plants
37: countries
15: plant-to-plant flows
99%: of plants verified at source
22%: of plants with a class A source
79: technology suppliers

Data as of: 20 October 2026 · version 2.31 · verified at source up to 20 October 2026 · Dataset changes · JSON dataset · Markdown

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Metal Product

Raw materials Smelting and refining Processing Products Recycling End uses Technology suppliers Marker shape – value-chain link; hollow marker – plant under construction, idled or closed; line – material flow between plants. Click a plant to open its card, click a country to narrow the list. Zoom: buttons, double-click or Ctrl + wheel; pan by dragging. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain). Location of some plants: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Position in the value chain

Country	Raw materials	Smelting and refining	Processing	Products	Recycling	End uses	Plants
Albania	·			·	·	·	2
Austria							71
Belgium	·						62
Bosnia and Herzegovina				·	·	·	6
Bulgaria				·		·	18
Croatia	·					·	4
Cyprus	·		·	·		·	2
Czechia	·						47
Denmark	·	·					12
Estonia	·	·	·	·		·	3
Finland							32
France							200
Germany							410
Greece						·	32
Hungary							22
Ireland		·	·			·	6
Italy	·						209
Kosovo	·		·	·	·	·	1
Latvia	·		·	·		·	3
Lithuania	·		·	·		·	7
Luxembourg	·	·		·	·		5
Moldova	·	·	·	·		·	1
Montenegro			·	·	·	·	2
Netherlands	·						43
Norway	·						41
Poland							235
Portugal		·		·			12
Romania							32
Serbia						·	15
Slovakia	·						22
Slovenia	·			·			17
Spain							140
Sweden							62
Switzerland	·						41
Türkiye	·						47
Ukraine	·		·		·		3
United Kingdom	·						87

How the register is built

The register is not a directory of advertising listings – it grows out of metal flow balances, in which every plant has to reconcile with the national total.

The plant, not just the companythe unit of the register is a plant with a location, value-chain link and unit of measure; a company is the sum of its plants. The “End uses” link covers metal users (e.g. automotive foundries) – it can be switched off with a filter.
A source behind every numbercapacity, output and status carry a primary source (annual report, register, statistics) with an A/B/C class and the page of the document.
Plant-to-plant flowswhere sources state it, the register shows where a plant sources its feed and where it ships its product – with quantity and year.
Balance reconciliation – core onlyplants of the plant layers of the Metal Flows analyses (copper in the EU, aluminium in Poland) are checked against the national and EU balance; the other plants come from market-report registers, ASI certificates and recycling companies’ documents – their capacities are not summed into a balance. A plant found in several sources appears once, with all its sources; each carries the date of its last verification at source.
For people and agentsevery card has a Markdown and JSON version; the whole register is a JSON file with coordinates, sources and flows.
Correctionsan error in plant data can be reported to the address in the footer; the correction enters the dataset with a date and a source.

Dataset sources

Plant layer and plant-to-plant flows of copper in the EU-27 (EU Copper Flow Analysis)
Register of aluminium value-chain plants in Poland (Aluminium Flows in Poland)
Companies and plants from the Metal Flows analyses (copper: EU-27, Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Spain; aluminium: Poland, Germany) – company reports, EMAS statements and documents
Aluminium value-chain plants and users in Europe (company websites and documents)
Zinc smelters, ZnAl alloy producers, foundries, zinc recycling and users in Europe
Ferroalloy smelters, nickel alloy and metal powder producers in Europe
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) – certified member pages, certification scope; ASI data licensed under CC BY 4.0; plants extracted from the scope description by ai-waw.com – aluminium-stewardship.org · licence
Non-ferrous and stainless steel scrap recycling plants – location, activity and capacity from the companies’ own websites, reports and permits (companies identified, among others, in the public part of the BIR member directory)
Users of copper products (cable, winding wire, electrical machinery, connector, fittings, refrigeration and heating equipment manufacturers) – location and activity from the companies’ own websites, reports and registers
Alloy and stainless steel producers (melt shops, rolling mills, forges, foundries, tube makers) and alloy steel users (power generation, defence, automotive, aerospace, bearings, chemical equipment, machinery, tools, springs) – location and activity from the companies’ own websites, reports and registers
Steel strip coating lines (zinc, ZnAl and ZnMg) – location and activity from the companies’ own websites, press releases, permits and registers
Technology suppliers to non-ferrous metal plants (machinery and lines, melting and casting, extrusion and drawing, furnaces, smelting and refining, recycling and sorting, measurement and automation, industrial gases) – sites, equipment classes and metal scope from the suppliers’ own websites, product pages, brochures and reports; deliveries to plants – from supplier and producer press releases; LEI and groups – GLEIF. A picture of the supply market – not a commercial recommendation
Product base – pilot: copper and copper-alloy semis (29 classes), aluminium semis (26 classes) and zinc and zinc-alloy products (11 classes); CN 2026 codes – Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, PRODCOM 2025 – Eurostat; plant products from the companies’ own websites, catalogues, data sheets, reports and ASI certification records – data.europa.eu
Copper and aluminium scrap buyers (Recycling tab) – scrap grade dictionary: CN 2026 codes (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), waste codes (Decision 2000/532/EC, consolidated text), green list (Regulation (EU) 2024/1157, Annexes III and IIIA; Annex IX to the Basel Convention), EN 12861 and EN 13920 designations (PKN), trade names from ReMA’s ISRI Specifications; buyers – dataset plants by value-chain stage, metal, status and country; grades at plants – from the plants’ descriptions and source documents in the dataset. A picture of the market – not a commercial recommendation
Coordinates of ASI-certified, recycling, copper-user, alloy steel, coating-line, product-base, technology-supplier and added plants: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Nominatim geocoder; this layer of the dataset (coords_licence field) is made available under ODbL 1.0 – www.openstreetmap.org · licence

Use: the overview and company cards (pages and Markdown versions) may be mined, including for AI model training, with attribution. The complete dataset and the JSON data of the cards are reserved as a compiled database (Art. 4(3) Directive (EU) 2019/790). The reservation does not cover the coordinate layer under ODbL 1.0 nor data from ASI member pages (CC BY 4.0).

A official statistics, legal act, financial statement B company report, study group, industry association C trade press, release without underlying data