Finnish corporations Fortum and Terrafame are cooperating on recycling battery supplies. Terrafame will use the uncooked recycled supplies from Fortum to provide battery chemical substances, which can then be utilized in new batteries.
The power firm and the mining firm have signed an settlement on a trial undertaking by which the metals Fortum recovers from the black battery mass of electrical automobiles shall be utilized by Terrafame to provide battery chemical substances. Beneath the settlement, Fortum will provide nickel and cobalt to Terrafame.
Each supplies shall be recovered from the black mass of discarded batteries from electrical automobiles at Fortum’s recycling plant in Harjavalta. Terrafame will then use the recycled uncooked supplies to provide battery chemical substances for brand spanking new batteries. On the finish of their life cycle, these batteries shall be recycled once more, closing the uncooked materials loop. The trial undertaking between Fortum and Terrafame begins this month and the collaboration is anticipated to final for a number of years.
“We’re more than happy to be a part of producing much more sustainable battery chemical substances while contributing to the sustainability of the Finnish battery cluster. As well as, the collaboration with Terrafame is a step in the direction of a extra self-sufficient European battery manufacturing business with much less want to make use of imported uncooked supplies,” stated Tero Holländer, Head of Enterprise Line Batteries at Fortum Battery Recycling.
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