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Meridian Charter Recycling is a Lagos-headquartered Nigerian resource-recovery company specialising in the recovery of platinum-group metals. Our core operation processes spent automotive catalytic converters — milled, blended, assayed, sealed, and exported in traceable lots to European refinery offtake — and the same capability extends to industrial-grade PGM-bearing material from petrochemical and refinery sources, processed and tested in-house to final assay standard.

Scroll · The Operation

01 The Operation

A single, focused recovery line — feedstock in, sealed lots out.

Spent catalytic converters carry trace platinum-group metals bound to a ceramic honeycomb. We acquire that feedstock through a qualified-supplier network, process the monolith into a uniform powder, prove its grade and moisture in our own laboratory, and ship sealed, documented lots to the refiners who recover the metal — with the same line handling industrial-grade catalyst material to the identical standard.

Milled PGM-bearing powder decanted for blending

Input

Spent autocatalysts

Ceramic monolith substrate from end-of-life vehicle catalytic converters, sourced through a multi-node, qualified-aggregator network.

Transform

Homogeneous powder

Crushed, ball-milled and blended to a single representative grade — then dried to a controlled moisture threshold.

Output

Sealed, assayed lots

FIBC-bagged, XRF-characterised, sample-retained and sealed — each lot exported under documented chain of custody.

02 What We Recover

Three metals. Among the rarest in commerce.

Platinum-group metals are concentrated in autocatalysts precisely because they are scarce and exceptional. Recovering them from end-of-life units returns real value to the supply chain — and keeps it out of landfill.

Platinum

The benchmark autocatalyst metal — corrosion-resistant, catalytically dense, and central to diesel emissions control.

Palladium

The workhorse of petrol three-way catalysts. Tight supply has driven recovered material to the front of the market.

Rhodium

The rarest of the three and the highest-value per gram — reducing nitrogen oxides where the others cannot.

03 Quality Assurance

An in-house lab line, parallel to production.

A counterparty settles against numbers, so our own QA lab runs parallel to the plant and no lot leaves without them. X-ray fluorescence establishes the platinum, palladium and rhodium content of every lot; a moisture analyser confirms it on a dry basis; a riffle splitter draws true sub-samples that remove bias between our assay and the refiner’s; and a sealed reference sample is retained against each lot for audit, should any result be questioned.

QA bench — moisture, balance and particle sizing

04 Supplying Meridian Charter

Weighed in front of you. Settled without delay.

We buy PGM-bearing material directly and settle on our own account — not on consignment, and not against a refinery return months away. What you deliver is weighed and assessed in your presence, priced against the material itself, and settled promptly.

Sealed FIBC bag of PGM monolith powder, labelled for despatch

What we buy

Catalyst material in any form

Decanned ceramic monolith from catalytic converters — uncrushed or milled substrate — and industrial-grade catalyst material from petrochemical and refinery sources.

How we grade

Assessed in your presence

Material is weighed on calibrated scales and evaluated at intake, in front of the supplier. The basis of the price is visible — nothing leaves the room unexplained.

How we settle

Prompt, direct settlement

An agreed price, settled directly by the company — the discipline our supplier network is built on. Recurring suppliers are qualified once and trade on standing terms.

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05 Leadership

Personnel · Founder & CEO

Benjamin Grant

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Benjamin Grant is a British entrepreneur and former Royal Marines Commando with extensive experience operating in complex international environments. British-born with Nigerian heritage, he is the son of Helen Grant OBE, a British politician and former UK Prime Minister's Trade Envoy to Nigeria. His professional background spans hostile-environment operations, strategic consultancy, humanitarian crisis leadership, and international commodities trade.

Following his military service, Benjamin transitioned into business where he has built and operated companies across jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Africa. He is the founder of Meridian Charter Recycling and serves as its Chief Executive Officer, leading the company from Lagos.

Doctrine

We hold the record, the sample, and the responsibility. What we assay, we can prove. What we ship, we can answer for. Accountability is not a department — it runs through everything we do.

— The Mandate