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Energy storage

Mecaware

MEtal CApture for WAste REcycling

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Pilot
Mecaware

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Mecaware

Venissieux, France

Boulevard Marcel Sembat 41, 69200 Venissieux, France

Sustainable developement goals
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Strategic metal producer for a sustainable tomorrow

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The need

The European battery manufacturing industry faces major challenges in securing a stable raw material supply and in recycling production scraps, the process of which consumes more of these same raw materials.

The solution

Mecaware produces recycled strategic metals from battery waste. Our innovative sulfate-free, zero-effluent process was developed to keep the environmental impacts of recycling low. We locate our plants as close to waste sources as possible. Battery waste is a local resource capable of supporting a sovereign domestic European strategic metals supply. Recycled materials are a pillar of a lower-carbon, more sustainable and responsible battery industry.

The value proposition

  • Secures 70-80 per cent volume and price of total EV battery production costs.
  • Reduces 30-50 per cent of EV battery recycling costs vs conventional hydrometallurgy recycling processes.
  • Delivers sustainable and recycled metals in accordance with current and future EU regulation (Critical Raw Materials Act).
  • Works towards the development of a local industrial circular economy and a secure supply chain of critical and strategic metals.

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