Our story

For 120 years,
Metalimpex has recycled
ferrous and non-ferrous
metals the world over

Since its founding in 1899, Metalimpex has worked alongside customers to address their waste management challenges.

Metalimpex is a circular economy player that collects, sorts and recycles raw materials by recovering scrap and metals from its customers directly on their premises or Metalimpex sites. The Group then manages the transfer of these materials to processing industries including steel mills, foundries and aluminium and copper smelters.

1899

Pierre Boone establishes a company, processing a few hundred tons of metal each month

1920

Pierre’s son, Robert, takes over the company

The automotive industry is born: the first-ever partnership is forged with Peugeot

1970

Bernard Boone, the founder’s grandson, heads up the Group, now headquartered in Marquette-Lez-Lille

Metalimpex specialises in managing automotive metals, processing tens of thousands of tons each month

1980

The Group opens its first foreign affiliates in the UK, Turkiye and Eastern Europe

1983

To support the development of Renault and PSA, Metalimpex starts operations in Spain, followed by Slovenia, Portugal, Slovakia and Romania

1992

Laurent Boone joins the Group’s teams in Turkiye and Spain to further his understanding of various local cultures

2001

Metalimpex partners up with Toyota

2002

The Group forms a partnership with Ford, first in Bordeaux, then in Romania and Brazil

2004

Laurent Boone succeeds his father as the Group’s CEO

Green Metal France, a joint venture with Toyota Tshusho, is created

2006

Metalimpex opens a subsidiary in China

2007

Metalimpex opens a subsidiary in Brazil

2008

SUEZ Group acquires Metalimpex

2009

Metalimpex kick-starts a partnership with Groupe SNOP in the Czech Republic

2010

Renault Nissan becomes a shareholder

2018

Metalimpex India opens

2019

Metalimpex supports PSA’s opening of a new plant in Kenitra, Morocco

2020

The Group opens subsidiaries in Germany and Poland

2022

Metalimpex Italy opens

Renault Group subsidiary, The Future Is Neutral, takes over the shareholding in Metalimpex

IT’S 1899 AND THE STORY BEGINS IN NORTHERN FRANCE

Pierre Boone, then a cabinetmaker, founded Boone in the city of Lille. At the time, this small company honed its expertise in recycling non-specialist metals, processing a few hundred tons of metal on a monthly basis.

Years later, Pierre’s son, Robert, followed in his footsteps to develop the Group’s metal recycling capabilities in the Lille region. This period marked the beginning of the automotive industry and the Group’s first-ever partnership is forged with Peugeot.

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Engin de chantier déversant des métaux.

In 1970, Metalimpex inaugurated a subsidiary in Paris, with a focus on managing automotive metals which led to tens of thousands of tons being processed each month. The Group was now spearheaded by the founder’s grandson, Bernard Boone, who set his sights on international expansion by creating European subsidiaries to boost Renault and PSA.

Then, in 1992, Laurent Boone joined Metalimpex and was posted to Turkiye and Spain. The Group shifted strategic focus to cultivating a sense of local proximity with customers as it joined forces with Ford and Toyota in the 2000s and a Chinese subsidiary opened in 2006 as well as a subsidiary in Brazil and additional collaborations initiated worldwide.

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Our organisation

COMMITMENT IS OUR MAIN WATCHWORD
AT BOONE COMENOR METALIMPEX

In our family-run business, from management to operations, our people are united by a strong team spirit and buoyed by consummate professionalism, embracing a culture that puts the customer first.

As a recognised metal recycling expert at the regional and global levels, Metalimpex cultivates a sense of proximity with its local customers while stepping up partnerships and operations throughout the world.

Le travail collectif est l'une des qualités à l'épanouissement des collaborateurs.

SUEZ Group

EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, SUEZ PROVIDES CONCRETE SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS THE NEW CHALLENGES OF SMART AND SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

SUEZ is a major player in environmental services. For almost 160 years, SUEZ has supported local communities and industrial companies in the management of essential services such as water, waste and air. In our ongoing management of the ecological transition and climate change challenges, SUEZ relies on the expertise and commitment of its 35,000 employees (particularly in France, Italy, Central Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia) to offer high value-added and customised environmental solutions to all its customers.

SUEZ’s expertise allows, for instance, its customers to avoid the emission of 4.2 million tons of CO2, thus improving their carbon footprint and their impact on climate.
With a turnover of more than 7.5 billion euros in 2021 and backed by its expertise and capacity to innovate, SUEZ has strong growth prospects.

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Nos engagements et notre passion pour l’environnement sont le moteur de notre action.

Through our passion for the environment and our commitments, we strive to support global companies producing ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal. In this spirit, we seek to reinvent the sector and maximise metal packaging that is sorted at source and recycled.

THE FUTURE IS NEUTRAL

Our mission is to help the automotive sector move towards resource neutrality

With more than 30 years of experience, we are a holding of companies specialising in the automotive circular economy, intervening at every stage of the car’s life cycle: from production to end-of-life.

In a context of energy transition marked by the scarcity of resources, we offer closed-loop recycling solutions, from car to car. Our mission: to help automotive industry players transition to resource neutrality by increasing the proportion of recycled automotive materials in the production of new cars.

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