Aurea SA is a holding company, which engages in the recycling of black motor oils, manufacturing remould tyres from used tyres and recycling rigid polyvinyl chloride (PVC). It also recycles complex plastics and packaging, refines and recycles aluminium, recycles copper and produces copper alloys, and specialises in the treatment and recycling of zinc, lead and cadmium. The company was founded on August 26, 1892 and is headquartered in Paris, France.