ReSpark, the technology platform serving the metal recycling industry, has acquired ScrapRight, a scrapyard management software provider founded by industry veteran Shon Duty. The deal, announced September 30, 2026, gives ReSpark roughly 1,000 customers across more than 1,700 locations globally.

ScrapRight brings more than 20 years of operating history in the recycling sector and a customer base of roughly 350 yards across more than 500 locations. The company's team, including members of the Duty family, will join ReSpark to support customers through the transition.

The acquisition is ReSpark's third structural move in six months, and it marks the pace of consolidation in scrapyard software. In April 2026, GreenSpark and ReMatter combined to form ReSpark. In July 2026, the new company acquired UptimePM, an equipment maintenance platform now operating as ReSparkPM. ScrapRight is the second bolt-on since the merger.

The platform ReSpark has assembled now spans the full operating stack of a scrapyard: buying, selling and pricing material; yard operations; logistics; finance and accounting; compliance; equipment maintenance; and AI-powered automation. That breadth positions the company as a single vendor for operators who previously stitched together software from multiple providers.

"ScrapRight has built something special because Shon and his team understand this industry at a fundamental level," ReSpark CEO Gordon Driscoll says. "They know the customers, they know the work, and they've earned a tremendous amount of trust along the way. Bringing our teams together gives us an opportunity to build on that foundation while putting even more resources behind the products and people our customers rely on."

For Duty, the decision to sell came down to scale. "For more than 20 years, I have had the privilege of being part of the scrap industry, and ScrapRight has always been about serving the people in it," Duty says. "Our customers have trusted us with an important part of their businesses, and that is something I have never taken lightly. As I got to know the ReSpark team, it became clear that they are building toward the future I wanted for ScrapRight and for our customers. I am proud of what we built, and I am confident ScrapRight's customers are in good hands."

ReSpark frames the acquisition as the latest step in its investment in purpose-built technology for metal recycling. With ScrapRight's customer base and the team's industry experience on board, the company says it can invest more deeply in product development, customer support and the automation and AI capabilities it expects the next decade of recycling operations to run on.

The deal signals where the scrapyard software market is heading. Independent providers of scale are disappearing into larger platforms, and the remaining competition is increasingly between consolidated stacks rather than point solutions. Roughly 1,700 locations now sit on ReSpark's systems, and the company has closed two acquisitions in under three months.

What happens next depends on execution. The open questions are how quickly ReSpark integrates ScrapRight's roughly 350 customers onto the combined platform, whether UptimePM's maintenance tooling extends across the enlarged base, and how fast AI-driven automation moves from roadmap item to deployed product in the yards.