€80 million
(€67 million from the European Union and €13 million from the French Public Investment Bank)

 

50 kt
of modules per year,
equivalent to around
200,000 electric vehicles
in recycling capacity

2 plants
upstream for blackmass production
and downstream for refining
battery-grade metals

Eramet - The metals we need

ReLieVe

Eramet’s Research & Innovation Centre has developed a process that can infinitely recycle more than 90% of the strategic metals (nickel, cobalt, lithium) contained in the blackmass of end-of-life batteries and in scrap from gigafactory production.

Our objectives

  • Deploy Europe’s first integrated recycling plant to ensure the circularity of strategic metals for the European battery industry.
  • Provide a high-capacity, high-efficiency recycling solution to meet current and future European regulatory requirements.
  • Secure our position as a leader in Europe’s energy transition and become the preferred partner for the development of the recycling industry.

A unique battery recycling process

From launch to industrialization

Frédéric Martin
ReLieVe Project Manager

With ReLieVe, our intention is to develop a recycling industry in Europe, from the collection of used batteries and gigafactory scrap, to the production of materials suitable for the manufacture of new batteries. The project meets the challenges of the energy transition and the need to secure the supply of metals requireded to manufacture electric batteries in Europe, as well as contributing to the circular economy.

Pre-project consultation

Convinced that a quality dialogue on the project’s challenges is one of the essential conditions for its integration into its human, natural and economic environment, Eramet asked the Commission Nationale du Débat Public (CNDP) to set up a preliminary consultation process.

Prior consultation is a dialogue and information process designed to establish an exchange with the public upstream of the project design phase, so as to involve them in its development. It provides an opportunity to present the issues and objectives of a project, answer questions and gather opinions and proposals from the public and local stakeholders.

The CNDP has appointed Mr Jean-Luc RENAUD and Mr Jean Raymond WATTIEZ as guarantors for this consultation, which will run from March 4 to April 20, 2024. A website is dedicated to the consultation: www.relieveproject.eu

Our expertise in lithium

An essential component of electric batteries, lithium is a metal with a bright future, and Eramet is investing in it with one ambition: to become a benchmark player in metals for the energy transition.

Our other projects

Centenario Lithium
(Argentina)

Sonic Bay
(Indonesia)

Ageli – Geothermal Lithium
(France)