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BATTERS Workshop - Battery waste recycling

Published on July 5th, 2022

Following the first event organized at the headquarters of the Hauts de France Region on May 3, 2022, the question of "recycling post-production waste from electric vehicle batteries so that they are considered as new resources" a été évoquée par certains acteurs industriels.

WeLOOP therefore organized, on June 30, 2022, the second meeting of the BATTERS project. This had the theme of “recycling post-production waste from batteries”.

BATTERS Project

Workshop's summary

This first meeting on this subject aimed to:

Test the feasibility and interest of multi-stakeholder meetings, to identify areas of collaboration and cooperation

Initiate collective work around the challenges of recycling production waste, so that they become significant resources in this sector.

Thirty participants, bringing together different players in the battery sector were gathered.

After an introduction by WeLOOP, as well as a presentation of the BATTERS and AMI project of the HdF Region, the first part of the workshop allowed the presentation of certain actors and their recycling methods, with a focus on production waste.

Among these actors, Mecaware in association with MTB presented the hydrometallurgical process, different from standard hydrometallurgy.
Veolia also participated in the presentations and presented their hydrometallurgical process. Finally, TND presented their mixed process, a process combining pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy.

In addition to the presentations of these 3 players, SNAM and Eramet also presented their activities around the subject.

Discussion themes

The workshop then, in the second part, focused on discussions on previously determined themes:

Local closed loop work
What success factors?

Technologies and post-production recycling plants
What needs and what resources?

Collaboration of actors in the Region
How to set it up? What are the strengths?

How to promote your installation in the Region?

Dynamic and constructive exchanges made it possible to identify the next points to be developed within the framework of the BATTERS.

To conclude this event, WeLOOP has written a report which takes up the important ideas raised during the workshop and proposes ways to continue collaboration in the battery sector.

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