Altilium Metals has opened a Technology Centre in Devon, UK to strengthen its competitive edge in recycling of electric vehicle batteries. The Technology Centre will allow its subsidiary Altilitech to scale recycling innovations faster and speed up its time-to-market. The team will be working closely together with the MEDET hydrometallurgical plant in Bulgaria, which is [...]

We completed our planning meeting for a 18-month research program sponsored by Altilium Metals with Imperial College. Imperial will produce lithium-ion coin cells and pouch cell batteries to validate the electrochemical performance of recycled technology metals from a number of current battery chemistries and verify they perform the same as batteries from virgin raw material. [...]

Altilium Metals Ltd has formed an alliance and has received investment from Tatton Consulting, R&D Grant Consulting Company of the year 2022. Tatton has a strong market leading position in supporting the UK’s most innovative and disruptive SMEs identify, apply for, and win grants and tax credits to innovate and grow. Altilium Metals has this [...]

Altilium Metals winning R&D proposal is to produce samples of recycled end-of-life electric vehicle batteries and manufacture new lithium-ion batteries. New battery production will validate the electrochemical performance of recycled technology metals and verify they perform the same as batteries from virgin raw material. The battery manufacture and testing will be done in conjunction with [...]

Devon County Council has invested more than £750,000 is being invested to support 6 innovative projects and technologies which will drive green growth in Devon’s economy. Altilitech, a subsidiary of Altilium Metals has been awarded funds to scale up its end-of-life electric vehicle recycling technology at its Battery Recycling Technology Centre in Devon, UK. Please [...]

Altilium Metals holds a multiyear concession agreement to extract minerals from the MEDET copper tailings and a solvent extraction-electrowinning (SX-EW) plant in Bulgaria. Altilium Metals appointed leading Engineering Consultant Hatch Ltd for the retrofit of the MEDET hydrometallurgical plant for the recycling of end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Hatch has presented their interim commercial and engineering [...]

Altilium Metals is supported through by Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) to prove and enhance the case for scale up of its electric vehicle battery recycling technology to reclaim scarce technology metals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt at a quality for re-use in cell manufacture. This feasibility study will accelerate and support the investment decision regarding [...]

This apprenticeship programme is being made possible with support from Devon County Council’s Green Innovation Fund and these new work-based learning experiences will create much-needed routes into the growth industry of lithium-ion battery recycling. In the past, apprenticeships were restricted to only some trades, and some parts of the economy. Creating more alternative career paths [...]

Dr Wickham brings a wealth of process engineering and project management expertise and recently spent 9 years as a Senior Scientist at Element Six Ltd (a De Beers company) Ben has a Masters Degree in Chemistry with 1st Class Honours and a Doctorate in Inorganic & Synthetic Chemistry University of Bath, UK. Recognized as a [...]

PT Stern is at the development and funding stage of a processing plant to produce manganese sulfate and other manganese cathode battery materials at a planned facility in Indonesia. PT Mandala Erakovic will deliver 2,000 to 4,000 metric tons of 50% Manganese ore per year commencing 2024 as sole supplier of feedstock to the plant [...]