Autocirc CEO Hugues Delval will speak at Auto Recycling Intelligence 2026, explaining how ATFs can capture more value from end-of-life vehicles by scaling reused, remanufactured and recycled OEM parts through stronger links with repairers, insurers and OEMs. His session will focus on making circular parts models operational, traceable and commercially robust.
ATF Professional has announced that Hugues Delval, Chief Executive Officer of Autocirc, will join the speaker line-up for Auto Recycling Intelligence 2026, bringing delegates insight from one of Europe’s fastest-growing circular automotive aftermarket groups.
The ATF Professional Vehicle Recycling Conference 2026 will take place on 11 June 2026 at the British Motor Museum in Warwickshire, bringing together ATFs, dismantlers, insurers, repair networks, OEMs, technology providers, policymakers, and suppliers from across the vehicle recycling and wider automotive aftermarket.
Delval will present a session titled “From Waste to Value: Building a Scalable Circular Ecosystem in the Automotive Aftermarket”, examining how vehicle recycling businesses can move further up the value chain by creating stronger links between dismantlers, repairers, insurers and vehicle manufacturers.
As CEO of Autocirc, Delval leads a group that has grown rapidly by building an integrated ecosystem around automotive recycling, component reuse, remanufacturing, and recycled original parts. Autocirc says its ambition is to build the leading ecosystem for component reuse and to help shape the circular auto parts industry. The group now comprises 70 companies and more than 1,400 employees, with a model focused on keeping more car parts in productive use through reuse, remanufacturing and recycling.
That scale is central to the relevance of Delval’s session for the UK vehicle recycling sector. While the value of green parts and recycled OEM components is already well understood by many ATFs, the next stage of development is increasingly about industrialising the process: securing volume, improving data quality, standardising grading, building customer confidence and embedding reused parts into mainstream claims and repair workflows.
For ATFs, this speaks directly to the commercial challenge now facing the sector. The opportunity is no longer confined to depollution, dismantling and material recovery. Increasingly, recyclers are being asked to provide parts, data, provenance, and service levels that satisfy insurers, repairers, fleets, and OEMs operating under cost, carbon, and supply-chain pressures.
ATF Professional said Delval’s addition to the agenda strengthens the conference’s focus on practical intelligence for operators already active in the sector. Rather than treating circularity as an abstract sustainability concept, his session will examine how circular models can be made operational, repeatable and commercially robust.
The conference will also explore the wider forces reshaping vehicle recycling in the UK and Europe, including battery volumes, AI, insurer behaviour, OEM strategy, regulation, data and the changing balance between parts reuse and materials recovery.
Haydn Davies, Editor of ATF Professional, said:
Haydn Davies
“Vehicle recyclers already understand the value locked inside end-of-life vehicles. The question now is how the sector can capture more of that value in a structured, traceable, and scalable way. Autocirc’s growth across Europe shows how quickly the circular parts model is developing, and Hugues will bring an important perspective on what that means for ATFs, insurers, repairers and the wider aftermarket.” He added, “This is exactly the kind of discussion Auto Recycling Intelligence 2026 has been created for. It is about giving professional recyclers the insight they need to understand where the market is heading, what customers will expect next, and how vehicle recycling businesses can position themselves within a more circular automotive economy.”
Delval joins an agenda featuring speakers from across the automotive, recycling, insurance, technology, policy and battery sectors, with the conference set to provide a full-day programme of insight, discussion and networking for vehicle recycling professionals.
The full speaker lineup includes:
Mary Creagh CBE MP – Labour MP for Coventry East Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Defra)
Leon van der Merwe – Vice President of Toyota Motor Europe
Hans Eric Melin – Founder and Managing Director of CES Research and Consulting
Andrew Marsh – Technical Director of AutoBody Bible Ltd
Mark Main – Director of EY LLP – UK&I Transport & Logistics Leader, Mobility Practice
Alan Colledge – Technical Director of Lithium Battery Recycling Solutions (a SUEZ company)
Conrad Caine – Founder of Machines Like Me
Paul Sell – Director of Trend Tracker, Industry Insights & Service Certainty Ltd
Hugues Delval – Chief Executive Officer of Autocirc
