Altilium COO Dr Christian Marston highlighted the UK’s opportunity for EV battery recycling and critical mineral recovery in an in-depth interview with S&P Global Commodity Insights’ Senior Editor Eaun Sadden.

Speaking during London Metals Exchange Week, Christian highlighted the UK’s high EV adoption rate, creating a promising market for battery recycling and critical minerals recovery.

“Every EV battery on the road in the UK is almost a strategic asset, featuring high concentrations of critical minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt,” he noted.

Currently much of this “urban ore” is leaving the country, due to limited domestic recycling at scale, exporting UK jobs and strategic resources.

Altilium is reversing this trend with the scale-up of its proprietary EcoCathode and EcoAnode clean technology processes, enabling the recovery of critical cathode and anode materials from black mass. As the article notes, Altilium is already producing high nickel CAM at its pilot plant in Devon, while construction of its new ACT 3 commercial scale-facility is now underway.

Christian also highlighted the important role of Altilium’s online platform recell.store, which was launched earlier this year, as well as the likely tightening of regulations around export of black mass:

“We believe that the regulation around black mass and discarded EV batteries is only going to increase based on their strategic value as a source of critical minerals.”

Read the full article here: https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/metals/102925-interview-altilium-highlights-uks-promising-ev-battery-recycling-opportunity?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=social