Tuurny

Every year millions of tons of advanced electronics are processed through traditional industrial shredders, which destroys the valuable components inside them. For Aerospace and Defense, this eliminates irreplaceable legacy chips needed to maintain mission-critical systems. At the same time, global automotive and electronics manufacturers face new regulatory mandates requiring absolute circularity in material recovery. Manual labor to extract components by hand is economically unviable at scale, and standard recycling methods mix precious metals with base materials like aluminum, degrading their value instead of recovering them intact.

Tuurny builds autonomous robotic cells that integrate into existing operations: hardware is placed on the machine bed and the system executes recovery without CAD data or manual programming. A primary module uses proprietary vision models to identify and desolder valuable microchips without thermal damage, salvaging components from complex or unidentifiable legacy boards. A secondary module cuts large, heavy components such as copper and aluminum directly from the board to optimize material for high-yield refining. The company's fleet shares interaction data across machines to continuously improve operational efficiency, and by extracting high-purity components intact before shredding, the system produces pure, pre-sorted material streams that command higher assay premiums at the smelter.

New mandates such as the ESPR, ELV Regulation, CRMA, WEEE Directive, CSRD, and defense-related requirements like DoDI 4140.67, DFARS counterfeit part rules, NDAA reshoring, and R2v3/EPR standards are pushing industries toward strict circularity and supply chain traceability.