People no longer ask for recommendations the way they used to: they search for a plastic recycling company on Google and trust what they find. If you're not there, to many customers it's as if you don't exist.
Buyers search in the vocabulary of the trade — process, material, tolerance, finish — not in marketing words. Keyword research here means reading the enquiries and quotes you already send, not asking a generic tool.
The volumes are tiny and worth a great deal: forty searches a month can be the order that carries the year. This work is judged by the enquiries that arrive, never by the traffic curve.
This sector moves slowly and then holds: once a process page ranks it tends to stay, because almost nobody publishes against it. Budget a year and judge it on enquiries, not on a monthly chart.
One page per process and per material beats one services page listing all of them. The buyer types the process; a page that covers eight of them ranks for none, and the one that covers one ranks for years.
Search keeps evolving: rich results, direct answers and AI search engines all count now. We prepare your website to appear there, with well-structured content that machines understand and cite.