A world-renowned center of excellence

Based in Trappes, France, Eramet Ideas is staffed by experts who work closely with site-based operational teams. Eramet Ideas has expertise in mining, extractive metallurgy and recycling, and helps to improve the Group’s short-term operating performance, while developing long-term projects in support of the strategic roadmap.

  • Create sustainable value by embracing open innovation to support the Group’s mines, plants and growth projects.
  • Leverage digital transformation, technological agility and mining and metallurgical expertise to drive innovation
  • Be a recognized center of excellence in mining, extractive metallurgy and recycling in Europe and worldwide

A hub of expertise

Open innovation, an engine for growth

Cutting-edge tools

Project incubator

Our research teams work hand in hand with their colleagues in the field on short, medium and long-term innovation programs.

Battery recycling

The ReLieVe project for recycling lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles was launched in the Eramet Ideas laboratories. A demonstrator is currently being built on the Trappes site. The aim is to validate the efficiency and robustness of the Eramet process on a pre-industrial scale.

Decarbonation

Eramet’s roadmap for reducing CO2 emissions depends mainly on decarbonizing ferroalloy production. The first lever is the substitution of fossil-based reducing agents by biomass-based reducing agents. Major R&D efforts are being deployed to characterize and understand these new types of materials, assess their durability and production performance, and carry out substitution tests on a pilot and industrial scale.

169
employees (37% women and 63% men) representing 14 different nationalities

3
pilot halls and associated laboratories for mineralurgy, hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy

28
subsidized joint projects in Europe since 2016, of which 5 have led to major breakthroughs for the Group while 1 is currently in the process of going into production

150
high-potential Group startups