As part of a strategy to establish a strategic portfolio of mining assets in Indonesia to provide security of supply and feedstock to a future processing plant of intermediate metal salts used in electric vehicle batteries, Altilium Metals is pleased to announce that it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with PT. Karya Sarana [...]

With this new award of £223,097, Altilium Metals has reached a milestone of USD 1 million backing so far in 2022 from the UK Government to develop its battery recycling technology for at scale recovery of cathode metals. The Automotive Transformation Fund is delivered by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) and partners, Innovate UK, the [...]

To complement the internal studies by Altilium Metals in the retrofit of its Solvent Extraction-Electrowinning (SX-EW) plant at its MEDET Copper tailings resource in Bulgaria, it has appointed Hatch to develop mass balances, process flows, detailed equipment lists, economic model, including OPEX and CAPEX as well as a green house gas analysis of the plant. [...]

Altilitech has developed a closed loop process with no direct carbon emission to recover critical and scarce metals lithium, nickel and cobalt for reuse in lithium-ion batteries. Recycling spent batteries reduces carbon emissions by 38% and material costs by 35% compared to virgin mining, lowering EV battery costs and increasing adoption of EVs. A UK [...]

Materials production is responsible for approximately half of the greenhouse gas emissions from battery production, and recycled materials typically have a lower carbon footprint than the same materials from virgin sources. For example, production of recycled aluminum creates approximately 95% less greenhouse gas emissions compared to producing aluminum from natural sources. The study has looked [...]

Once an Electric Vehicle battery reaches the end of its useful life, the battery pack can be collected, dismantled, and shredded. The shredded material is then processed to produce so-called “black mass”, which consists of high amounts of lithium, manganese, cobalt, and nickel metals. This black mass is the feedstock to the Altilium Metals recycling [...]

The University of Plymouth is a leading UK University and is ranked among world’s top 25 in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. It has verified independently that the Altiltech process to recycle end-of-life lithium-ion batteries is suitable for commercial use and can recover greater than 95% of valuable cathode metals. The Altilitech recycling process [...]

Altilium Metals holds a multiyear concession agreement to extract minerals from Medet tailings and a Solvent Extraction-Electro Winning Plant (SX-EW) in the Pirdop region of Bulgaria. It plans to process 50 MT per month of consumer battery waste collected for smart phones and personal consumer electronics, recovering at least 6 MT of nickel metal, 10 [...]

Failure to recycle dead car batteries could cancel out benefits of electric vehicles. Major recycling plant to open in Plymouth amid fears environmental gains could be lost. See full article here.  

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