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With the EU Battery Regulation approaching enforcement, Battery Passports are becoming a mandatory digital element for batteries placed on the European market. Their purpose is to provide structured and reliable information on aspects such as battery origin, composition, carbon footprint, and lifecy …

The Digital Battery Passport (DPP) panel will discuss practical applications, challenges, and economic benefits with respect to effective recycling, required supply chain transparency, and how this will be supporting the shift to a circular economy. The panel’s focus is on: recycling efficiency: how …

FutuRaM, a strategic project funded under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme, developed a harmonized framework for compositional data collection, material flow analysis, and material recovery modelling across six key waste streams: Batteries, Buildings, Mining Waste, Slags and Ashes, V …

Fortum Battery Recycling team is presenting a novel European battery recycling strategy yielding in high purity battery grade products of Nickel Sulfate, Cobalt Sulfate and Lithium Hydroxide to be directly returned into pCAM and CAM production. The process has a superior CO2 footprint, uses green el …

Cobalt prices have surged to multi-year highs, driven by tightening supply chains, geopolitical risk, and accelerating demand from battery manufacturers. This volatility is reshaping the economics of black mass and redefining its role in the global battery raw materials market. The presentation will …

Circularity is often presented as straightforward. In practice, it is anything but. Today, automotive OEMs are navigating a system that is still being built in motion. Regulations are accelerating setting ambitious targets and clear responsibilities for batteries end-of-life and recycled content. Ye …

This presentation introduces GAT’s hydrometallurgical process technology for recycling NMC batteries, a process purpose-built for black-mass recycling rather than adapted from legacy nickel and cobalt refining. The technology produces battery-grade outputs without solvent extraction, removing the co …

As battery recycling scales up globally, hydrometallurgical processing of black mass is increasingly required to perform under industrial conditions rather than in laboratory or pilot-scale environments. For plant operators, the key challenge is no longer whether hydrometallurgy works in principle, …

Attendees in this session will learn about balancing speed‑to‑market with regulatory and safety realities, infrastructure and utility demands that are often underestimated, and lessons on coordinating technology providers, EPC partners, and operators all from Drees & Sommer's advice. 

This talk presents an overview of current research activities conducted by E-Lyte, focusing on the selective recovery and purification of electrolyte solvents and salts. Special emphasis is placed on the recovery of non-volatile components such as EC, VC, and Na/LiPF6.

A snapshot of the 2025–2026 battery recycling market: what's driving growth in Asia, India, the US and Europe, who the main players are, and which developments are reshaping the landscape. Where do European innovators stand in this global race? How are EU‑born recycling technologies moving from pilo …

As the demand for circular battery solutions transitions from theory to industrial reality, Veolia is deploying a robust infrastructure to secure the secondary raw materials supply chain. This session explores Veolia’s comprehensive operational network, focusing on our specialized pre-treatment unit …

Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode active materials are besides layered oxide chemistries the most important group of cathode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. China has commercialized LFP batteries for mass market applications and is today the leading producer with a market share of app …

Zinc batteries have been used for over a century in industrial and consumer applications, including lighting, portable electronics, tools, and toys. Modern primary zinc batteries typically use Zn–C or Zn–MnO₂ (“alkaline”) chemistries, based on simple, non‑toxic materials such as steel, zinc, mangane …

Despite strong regulatory momentum and rising end-of-life volumes, the European battery recycling industry remains largely unprofitable. High CAPEX requirements, volatile commodity prices, regulatory hurdles and lack of industrialization experience continue to constrain margins. To secure long-term …

Battery recycling has emerged as one of the most critical, and problematic, bottlenecks within modern e‑waste management systems. Batteries are chemically diverse, often damaged or degraded at end‑of‑life, tightly integrated into products, and subject to rapidly evolving regulatory requirements. Unl …

The rapid growth of electric mobility and portable electronics is generating increasing flows of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, while collection and treatment infrastructures are still struggling to adapt to new safety, logistics and regulatory requirements. This contribution presents pilot activities carried out within the EU projects FREE4LIB and REBELION, aimed at supporting the development of a robust end-of-life value chain for lithium-ion batteries.

The work focuses on two critical nodes of the chain: collection at distributors and handling at treatment plants. In collaboration with producers, retailers and waste operators, we are deploying dedicated containers at distributor premises to facilitate the safe and user-friendly collection of spent batteries and battery-containing products. In parallel, we are testing innovative container solutions at treatment facilities, in real operating conditions, to better understand safety needs, space constraints, logistics patterns and integration with pre-treatment and dismantling operations.

Feedback gathered through these pilots is being used to co-design an enhanced container concept within the projects, tailored to the actual requirements of the lithium-ion battery value chain. The paper will discuss the methodology adopted, key insights from stakeholders, and the main technical and operational design criteria emerging from the pilots (e.g. fire prevention, segregation, ergonomics, transport optimization, traceability).

By grounding technological development in concrete field experience, the pilots in FREE4LIB and REBELION contribute to closing existing gaps in the end-of-life management of lithium-ion batteries and to supporting the scale-up of safe and efficient recycling routes in Europe.

Battery recycling is moving into a phase where compliance, cost, and operability increasingly determine competitiveness. The EU Battery Regulation sets binding targets for collection, recycling efficiency, material recovery, and minimum recycled content, raising expectations for high‑yield, high‑pur …

Europe has placed battery recycling at the very heart of its Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan, and Battery Regulation. With rapidly rising volumes of production scrap, defective cells and end-of-life batteries, the continent is facing an unprecedented wave of recyclable material over the nex …