Quality management
ISO 9001:2015
Quality Management System. We document every procedure, an external auditor checks them, and every batch carries its own record from furnace to container.
Fifty-Five Years. One Address.
Incorporated 2 April 1970 at the Carabobo registry, entry No. 40, Book 76. Same owners, same ground, same furnaces ever since.
01 / Producer at a glance
FUNMETAL C.A. · Mariara, Carabobo
One refinery, one continuous story.
Fifty-five years on the same Mariara ground, on a 30,850 m² owned campus, turning spent lead-acid batteries into certified secondary lead.
1970
Founded on April 2, 1970 in Mariara, Carabobo.
Year founded
55+ YRS
Continuous operation from a single location.
Years operating
30,850 M²
Owned campus with every stage on one site.
Facility footprint
5,000 MT
Installed refining capacity per month.
Monthly ceiling
1 ROOF
Smelting, refining, assay and casting in-house.
Single-source
ISO
Quality and environmental management, both current.
9001 & 14001
02 / Heritage
Established April 1970
55 YRS
Over five decades of continuous operation from a single Mariara location, since April 2, 1970.
Five decades in, still on the same ground.
FUNMETAL C.A. was founded on April 2, 1970, in Mariara, Carabobo, Venezuela. We have run the plant from that same address ever since, and put the money back into furnaces, laboratory equipment and emission controls.
What began as a local battery recycling operation has evolved into a modern metallurgical facility with installed capacity for 5,000 metric tons of refined lead per month. Our equipment includes Canadian-manufactured rotary furnaces and precision refining systems that deliver purity levels most secondary producers cannot achieve.
Today, we export to battery manufacturers and metals traders across the Americas. We maintain an active international customer base, backed by a verified export history, that validates our capability to serve the most demanding industrial markets. Qualified buyers, brokers, and investors are welcome to coordinate an on-site visit to our Mariara facility to inspect the operation firsthand. Our customers come for the specs. They stay for the reliability.
03 / Campus
30,850 m² · one site
One campus. Every stage.
Our 30,850 m² campus in Mariara houses every stage of the recycling and refining process. Nothing is sent out for smelting or refining, so the chain of custody never leaves our gate and every ingot traces back to the batch that made it.
01
Battery bays with acid containment.
Reception & storage
02
Mechanical line for battery disassembly.
Breaking & separation
03
Rotary furnaces, Canadian-manufactured.
Smelting furnaces
04
Two-stage de-coppering, then Harris refining.
Refining systems
05
On-site OES and AAS equipment.
Analytical laboratory
06
Precision molds, 25 kg ingots.
Casting & packaging
07
Covered staging for finished product.
Warehouse
08
Washing, shredding, and pelletizing.
PP recycling line
09
Water treatment, emission filtration, acid neutralization.
Environmental controls
04 / Quality & environment
ISO 9001 · ISO 14001
Certified for quality and environment.
Both management systems are current and audited, applied to every batch and every shipment that leaves the facility.
Environmental management
ISO 14001:2015
Environmental Management System. Our facility operates under certified environmental controls, closed-loop water, emission filtration, slag recovery, and acid neutralization.
05 / People
Direct from the plant
Direct access to the people who make the product.
Our metallurgists and process engineers have decades of combined experience in secondary lead production. They oversee every stage, from furnace operation and refining chemistry to laboratory assay and quality control.
When you work with FUNMETAL, you get direct access to the people who make the product. No call center. No sales intermediary. Your questions go to the metallurgist who ran the batch or the logistics coordinator who loaded the container.
Email
hello@funmetalgroup.com
Phone / WhatsApp
+58 424 262 4045
06 / Next step
Producer, not middleman
Work with the producer
Work with a producer, not a middleman.
Ask for the metallurgist who ran your batch and you will get them, not an account manager reading from a sheet.
55+Years operating
1Facility, battery to ingot
ISO9001 & 14001