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year, where the company is innovating today to make tomorrow’ s battery recycling at scale seamless.
Helen Waters, Commercial Director for End-of-Life Vehicles( ELV), elaborates:“ The transition to EVs is an exciting development for the automotive industry’ s net-zero journey, but being truly sustainable requires an effective circular EV battery supply chain. Our RECOVAS project, which helped us to establish our EV battery recycling center in Birmingham, encouraged collaboration with both OEMs and academics, leading us to discover several key elements of battery recycling processes, including how to extract valuable metals like lithium, manganese, and cobalt.
“ Being part of the design process and seeing how a product is assembled is incredibly valuable when figuring out how to take products apart for recycling. No two days are the same in the world of EVs, but we’ re continuously investing in electrification processes to extend or improve our ELV capabilities, including shredding our own black mass in the future.”
Although material recovery and recycling have remained at the core of EMR’ s operations for decades, the company has also had to navigate and adapt to new products, demands, and challenges.“ The electrification of society requires several products with metals like cabling, copper, magnets, and infrastructure with steel and aluminum, and at the same time, decarbonization is a huge driver for many of our customers,” Patrick explains.“ Recycled materials typically use less water and have a smaller footprint in terms of biodiversity, helping to lower the carbon density of manufactured products they go into.
“ It’ s important to note that the regulatory requirements around the materials we collect are complex and always changing, and data is becoming more important to both us and our customers,” he adds.“ We’ re
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