The Group announced that it has taken back full ownership of Eramine, suspended the ReLieVe project and today published its third-quarter sales figures. Geoff Streeton, Executive Vice President & Chieff Development Officer, answers our questions.
24 October 2024
Black mass is a metal concentrate in the form of a black powder, obtained by crushing and separating battery components and gigafactory scrap. High-value elements such as lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese are extracted after a hydro-metallurgical refining stage. This is the aim of the ReLieVe project (Recycling of Li-ion batteries for Electric Vehicle), led [...]
4 December 2023
22 September 2023
PDF - 192.02 KBNearly 70 million euros: this is the amount of subsidies that the European Union has just awarded to Eramet to support its electric vehicle battery recycling project.Eramet set itself a challenge: to develop the first closed-loop lithium-ion battery recycling unit in Europe. Since then, Eramet has successfully demonstrated its ability to recycle all the valuable [...]
19 January 2023
After several years of R&D, Eramet's teams and their partners – Suez, Chimie ParisTech and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – gathered since January 2020 for the ReLieVe (Recycling of Li-ion batteries for Electric Vehicles) collaborative project, have demonstrated their ability to recycle Li-ion batteries in a closed-loop process with a high level [...]
18 January 2022
Have you heard about the ReLieVe project aimed at recycling Li-ion batteries? Check out its brand new website today. The ReLieVe project website is now operational and provides information on this major initiative aimed at developing an innovative closed-loop process for recycling Li-ion batteries from electric vehicles. We took this opportunity to discuss how research [...]
20 April 2021
The European Commission has announced that Directive 2006/66/EC is to be amended. Rings a bell? What about "lithium battery recycling"? We take a closer look a key component of the Group’s strategy.After announcing a review of Directive 2006/66/EC last spring, the European Commission has just published its proposition for a new text, which will now [...]
10 December 2020
Eramet, BASF and SUEZ partner to develop an innovative closed-loop process for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries, responding to the strong growth of the market in the coming years. The battery recycling project ReLieVe, led by Eramet, with BASF and SUEZ, has been selected by the European Union (EU) €4.7 million will be committed by [...]
11 September 2019
