€80 million
(€67 million from the European Union and €13 million from the French Public Investment Bank)

 

50 kt
of modules per year,
equivalent to around
200,000 electric vehicles
in recycling capacity

2 plants
upstream for blackmass production
and downstream for refining
battery-grade metals

ReLieVe

Eramet’s Research & Innovation Centre has developed a process that can infinitely recycle more than 90% of the strategic metals (nickel, cobalt, lithium) contained in the blackmass of end-of-life batteries and in scrap from gigafactory production.

Our objectives

  • Deploy Europe’s first integrated recycling plant to ensure the circularity of strategic metals for the European battery industry.
  • Provide a high-capacity, high-efficiency recycling solution to meet current and future European regulatory requirements.
  • Secure our position as a leader in Europe’s energy transition and become the preferred partner for the development of the recycling industry.

A unique battery recycling process

From launch to industrialization

Frédéric Martin
ReLieVe Project Manager

With ReLieVe, our intention is to develop a recycling industry in Europe, from the collection of used batteries and gigafactory scrap, to the production of materials suitable for the manufacture of new batteries. The project meets the challenges of the energy transition and the need to secure the supply of metals requireded to manufacture electric batteries in Europe, as well as contributing to the circular economy.

Closing of the pre-project consultation process

The preliminary consultation for the ReLieVe project, conducted under the aegis of the Commission Nationale du Débat Public (CNDP), ran from March 4 to April 20. During this period, citizens had the opportunity to find out more about the ReLieVe project and to be involved in its development.

Within one month of the end of the preliminary consultation, the guarantors appointed by the CNDP will draw up a report on the process, summarizing the way in which it was conducted, and presenting a summary of the comments and proposals made by the public and the responses provided by Eramet.

Two months after publication of the report by the guarantors, Eramet will submit its report, in which it will respond in particular to the recommendations made by the guarantors. This report will present the lessons learned from the consultation and the measures deemed necessary to take them into account. It will be made public, sent to the CNDP and posted on the consultation website: www.relieveproject.eu

Our expertise in lithium

An essential component of electric batteries, lithium is a metal with a bright future, and Eramet is investing in it with one ambition: to become a benchmark player in metals for the energy transition.

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Centenario Lithium
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Sonic Bay
(Indonesia)

Ageli – Geothermal Lithium
(France)