In 1991, the year of its foundation, RMD began its activity in rented industrial facilities in the town of Ribaseca (León), as an environmentally sustainable alternative to the practice used to recover metals from cable scrap through uncontrolled incineration, applying a new electromechanical recovery process that gave the final product obtained important quality standards and added value.

In 1994, RMD-Catalonia was founded, with facilities in its own industrial warehouse in Bigues i Riells (Barcelona), intended as a transfer centre for metallic raw materials and small-scale electromechanical recovery.

With the same vision and clarity with which the initial cable recovery project was undertaken and already extensive knowledge of the recycling sector, in 1997 it was decided to diversify the work being done so as not to depend on fluctuations in the metal markets, and it was decided bet on the recovery of other waste that at that time the industrialized society did not know and still does not know how to provide an environmentally sustainable solution. An ambitious research and development project related to recycling polymers and elastomers is undertaken, essentially based on the recovery of end-of-life tyres and the search for applications of the recycled material obtained. In this way, two new business areas were born in RMD: an industrial one that will provide clear and effective solutions to fulfil the ecological objectives established in Spanish law, recycling end-of-life tyres to obtain rubber shots for different applications, and another technological one in which RMD designs, manufactures and markets machines and processes for the different areas of recycling.

In 1998, the decision was made to expand the company's production capacity, adapting it to the new recycling technologies, which entails having infrastructures and facilities in accordance with the projected industrial expansion, considering that the Ribaseca facilities did not meet those expectations. Between 1999 and 2000, the current Ardoncino factory was built on a land area of 115,000 m2 and an initial occupation of 50,000 m2, and in 2000 the activity was transferred to the new plant, which has an industrial warehouse of 4,300 m2 and two office buildings and changing rooms with a total area of 850 m2. The industrial complex is used for the management and recovery of cable, plastic and rubber waste and end-of-life tyres. Entre los años 1999 y 2000 se construye la actual factoría de Ardoncino sobre una superficie de terreno 115.000 m2 y una ocupación inicial de 50.000 m2, y en el 2000 se traslada la actividad a la nueva planta, en la que se dispone de una nave industrial de 4.300 m2 y dos edificios de oficinas y vestuarios con una superficie total de 850 m2; destinándose el complejo industrial a la gestión y valorización de residuos de cables, plásticos y residuos de caucho y neumáticos fuera de uso.

In 2004, RMD began business and international expansion, with its participation in other companies, all of them dedicated to the recycling and electromechanical recovery of end-of-life tyres by applying the technology and know-how provided by RMD.