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Performance
meets Purpose.  Custom-engineered alloys from post-consumer waste. Designed for the application. Optimised for the process. Locally sourced. Immune to global disruption.

Performance
meets Purpose.  Custom-engineered alloys from post-consumer waste. Designed for the application. Optimised for the process. Locally sourced. Immune to global disruption.

Challenging
the Paradigm UMAMI Fit for Purpose™

Everything you already trust. UMAMI produces the alloy series you know and specify – 3xxx, 4xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx, and 7xxx. From certified post-consumer waste. At the highest quality level. Batch-level traced. ISO certified. They drop into your existing specifications and workflows without changing a single parameter.That alone is remarkable: certified circular aluminium, indistinguishable in performance from virgin material, sourced within 50km from urban waste streams.

But we don’t stop where conventional suppliers stop.

Transparency is key. Every UMAMI alloy – standard series or custom – begins with full disclosure. You know the waste source. You know the composition. You know the certification pathway. No black-box supply chain. No vague “recycled content” claims. Batch-level traceability from identified post-consumer waste stream to finished component.

This transparency is not just an ethical position. It is the technical foundation for something no conventional supplier can offer – Fit For Purpose.

Fit For Purpose
Beyond Standard Recipes .

Standard alloy series are compromises by design. They were formulated decades ago to serve broad application categories acceptably. Your specific component – its geometry, its mechanical loads, its surface requirements, your specific production equipment – was never part of that original calculation.

Fit for Purpose alloys are engineered backward from what your application actually demands and forward from what the characterised local waste stream provides. Proprietary alloy chip formulations. Custom mechanical properties. Manufacturing parameters – tool speeds, temperatures, feed rates, cooling – calibrated to your specific equipment so material and process perform as one integrated system.

The result: material that doesn’t just meet your specification. It exceeds it. Lower defect rates. Reduced cycle times. Superior surface quality. Lower unit cost.

The choice is yours. Stay with the standard series you trust – produced from certified circular feedstock at quality levels matching any primary supplier. Or go further: material purpose-built for your application that gives you a performance advantage no catalogue alloy ever will.

Both come from UMAMI. Both are certified circular. One matches the market. The other beats it.

Material Innovation
A Sustainable Upgrade
 UMAMI Re>Source™

UMAMI’s Contribution Customer Benefits
Fit for Purpose Alloys Custom formulations delivering exactly the performance required.
Integrated Process Optimisation Parameters co-developed with the alloy — reduced cycles, better yields, lower defects.
Circular Material Sourcing >85% post-consumer. Batch-level traceability. Local closed-loop. No geopolitical exposure.
Verified Low-Carbon Footprint 70–80% less CO₂. 95% less energy. Independently certifiable per ISO 14067.

UMAMI’s material innovation ensures that our partner’s hardware is both environmentally responsible and scalable, meeting the growing demand for repairable, low-carbon products. We‘re offering both – immediate improvements and a roadmap for assured advancements well into the future.

Material Portfolio
Fit for Purpose Alloys UMAMI Re>Source™

UMAMI
ALLOY 1

Source
Alloy 1 is derived from used beverage cans. This is one of the purest and best sorted sources of aluminum scrap in existence today.
Tensile Yield
Strength
We don’t aim for highest possible with all the process complexity, but rather stronger than current and strong enough, but even more sustainable. >260Mpa
Finish and
cosmetic options
While this alloy is amenable to a wide variety of finishing technologies, it is one of the few that needs no finish. In unfinished state it doesn’t crock.
Carbon Footprint
Not only a reduced footprint but a road map for continual improvement of inputs, and therefore outcome.

UMAMI
ALLOY 2

Composition
The second alloy features a higher scrap content („tramp“ alloys), a huge „unused“ re/source, that we upgrade back into premium applications.
Tensile Yield
Strength
This alloy meets the strength of a 6061 with a comparatively extremely low environmental impact.
Finish and
Cosmetic options
It require some esthetical reconsideration in regards to what finishing needs and look orchestrates such a leading edge material.
Carbon Footprint
We expect this to have a fraction of the embodied emissions of UBC and even industrial scrap, because this should be >85% post consumer.

CUSTOM
ALLOYS

Didn’t find something that matches your needs?
Having developed dozens of light metal alloys for broad ranges of applications, we are quite capable of developing custom alloys that do a few things best — we can, work better, make them look better, produce for less and do less harm to our planet..