Andean Inc.
Andean Systems is rethinking how humanity extracts and uses resources. We believe that scaling to meet an abundant future shouldn't require destroying the land, communities, and life we care about. So we're building software-native, autonomous factories that extract critical metals at industrial scale — modular plants deployed close to where the material already is, anywhere, anytime. Novel robotics, electro-extraction, and AI let us reach cost and sustainability numbers this industry hasn't seen. We start with urban mining: recovering copper, gold, silver, and other critical metals from the electronics and industrial scrap America already throws away. The US consumes roughly 2.2 million metric tons of copper a year and imports more than half of it, while recovering only a small fraction from post-consumer scrap. That gap is the opportunity. Every factory we build is a step toward the next era of American industrialization — and toward the infrastructure that will one day supply humanity beyond Earth.