After the giga-factories, recycling. While several major battery manufacturing projects are already on track in France, recycling projects are following suit. Several pilot lines should soon see the light of day in France. It must be said that getting rid of the mountains of used batteries to come is an ecological issue, but also an economic one, as the latter form a deposit of critical metals (lithium, nickel, cobalt, etc.) which could prove to be central in supplying Europe in metals that it does not extract on its soil.
It is with this conviction that the Minister Delegate for Industry, Roland Lescure, announced on Monday February 13 the financing of two projects for the recycling of battery materials within the framework of France 2030, which provides for 2.9 billion euros intended for securing access to raw materials. Two pilot lines, one built by Veolia and Solvay on a site of the first manufacturer near Metz (Moselle), and the other by Mecaware (Isère) at Verkor in Grenoble, will be supported to the tune of 30 million euros in within the framework of the Call for projects “Recycling, recyclability and reincorporation of materials”.
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