INDRA AUTOMOBILE RECYCLING has been a key player in vehicle recycling in France for the last 40 years. It dismantles and processes the vehicles and then sells on the resulting parts and materials. It has a network of 350 centres and exceeds the EU recycling target requiring that 95% of the volume of each vehicle be recovered: according to the French ecological transition agency, INDRA has achieved a rate of 96.8% recovery.

In 2013, INDRA AUTOMOBILE RECYCLING set up the PRECIS platform, an online service establishing stocks of secondhand parts so that they can be sold to repair businesses, with a guarantee of six months to a year depending on the range. Professionals can look through the stock, reserve the items they need and order them online. 

INDRA has set up www.goodbye-car.com, a site which links up individuals with a vehicle which has reached the end of its life with its various centres. The idea is that people can be sure that their vehicle will be recycled in line with current requirements.

INDRA has estabished AURECA, an authorised training facility for professionals on recycling end-of-life vehicles. The courses on offer run from administrative aspects to secondhand parts and materials.

INDRA's Re-source engineering department looks into ways to reuse materials recovered when vehicles are recycled and works with producers and manufacturers on ecodesign, so that vehicles are designed with a view to recyling.