Recycling. Resources. Responsibility.
"Recycling. Resources. Responsibility." This is not just the motto, but also the mission of Scholz Recycling GmbH: we aim to do sustainable recycling to conserve resources and thus to take responsibility for the environment and for the generations to come. After all, we are one of the most important trading, processing and recycling companies for steel and metal scrap in all qualities and varieties. We use state-of-the-art systems and work processes to ensure that the recycling gap is closed for secondary materials. Large industrial operations, as well as public services and private customers, rely on us to handle waste from demolished and gutted buildings, dismantled plant and material analyses.Scholz Recycling GmbH has set itself the goal of becoming one of the most important global suppliers of raw materials.
Optimised processes for the environment
The Scholz Group comprises a global network of companies and shareholdings in the processing and handling of scrap and metals. Thanks to this network, the consolidated group is one of the few recyclers that offers all activities for the processing of metals and scrap iron from one provider. Hundreds of collection and storage locations with optimum infrastructure, as well as recycling systems for every need are available in all parts of the world. A global infrastructure that allows the Scholz Group to combine scrap into gigantic material flows every day and to move it around the world. A reliable infrastructure that also benefits the Scholz subsidiaries in the neighbouring business segments.
Reliability, simplicity and a sense of responsibility shape the company principles of Scholz Group. In an international field, it is one of the leading recyclers of steel and metal scrap. Much of the internal investment flows into optimised processing – and thus into improved working conditions and environmental protection.
The Scholz Group in numbers
In its endeavours to meet customers worldwide and their requirements every day, the Scholz Group has created a corporate structure that sets standards in many respects. Would you have thought that the storage area of all the Scholz Group’s sites is larger than 1,200 football fields? Did you know that the company’s roughly 750 lorries drive a distance equivalent to almost three and a half times around the world on a daily basis?
The Scholz Group in overview:
- Turnover 2.64 billion euro in 2025
- Over 3,000 employees
- Over 200 sites worldwide
- More than 40 shareholdings
From a one-man operation to a global player
When Paul Scholz opened a small sorting plant in Lower Silesia in 1872, he probably never dreamt that this would become an international company group. Today, the Scholz Group has around 5,000 employees and, as a supplier of secondary raw material scrap, supplies hundreds of steelworks, foundries and smelters around the world.
With courage and foresight, the Scholz Group has always adapted successfully to changing conditions, for example, when the company moved to Aalen in the late 1940s, as well as in the 1970s with the establishment of European trade relations. The Group itself is now active in the USA, Mexico and China. The Scholz Group has also continuously expanded its areas of business over the years.
It is now not only a leader in the recycling of scrap from steel and non-ferrous metals, but has also made a name for itself with the disposal, service and logistics concepts offered by its companies.
July 2026 marked an exciting new chapter in the history of Scholz. That’s when the Scholz Group was acquired by the Derichebourg Environment SAS, creating a globally operating European industry leader in the circular economy.
Mission statement
The following Code of Conduct as well as the Corporate policy serves as a benchmark and orientation to meet the very high environmental and social responsibility of Scholz Recycling GmbH. It supports us in acting ethically and sustainably in the sense of our legal, economic, ecological and social responsibility.
