European Metal Recycling Limited

Project Mobius develops AI-powered digital toolkits to optimise car body structures for whole-life sustainability and cost. **Problem** After batteries, bodies are the biggest source of 'point-of-sale' CO_2e_ emissions, mostly driven by material production. Today, car bodies are not explicitly optimised for CO_2e_, only 50% of input material is utilised a...

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are essential for the Rare Earth Permanent Magnets (REPMs), which are required for e-motors and additional components. REE supply is volatile and can disrupt commercial ecosystems. The UK has limited natural REE resources but does boast successful industries reliant on REEs. The only realistic route for an insulated, sustainable...

ORE Catapult, University of Leeds, University of the West of England, University of Birmingham, EMR, and Ionic Technologies are seeking to establish a network to explore the regulatory and legislative drivers and barriers impacting the development of innovation in the circular supply chain for the wind sector. With the earliest turbines coming towards the...

ReCircAl will transform the aluminium supply chain in the UK through the creation of a world leading recycling supersite in utilising post-consumer scrap to produce high quality extrusion billet. End of Life scrap will be processed to provide a range of high strength impurity tolerant billets for the manufacture of structural automotive components that me...

ORE Catapult, University of Leeds, EMR, and Ionic Technologies are seeking to establish a network of wind and regulatory stakeholders to explore the regulatory and legislative drivers and barriers impacting the development of innovation in the circular supply chain in the wind sector. With the earliest turbines coming towards the end of their operational ...

Rare earth magnets, based upon neodymium iron boron (NdFeB), are a key component / material in direct drive wind turbines, where they are used in the generator. However these materials are top of the risk register on the UK's critical minerals list. The UK has vast wind resources and as such the government has invested heavily, in particular, in offshore ...

The SAVVIER project aims to help UK materials and manufacturing organisations become more competitive and fit for the future by helping them work together in efficient and cooperative supply chains. In our vision for the future, the wastes or by-products of one industrial partner in a supply chain become the material inputs for another partner. These 'sec...

The UK produces around 11MT of scrap steel per annum. Around 2.6MT of this is used domestically to make higher performance steel products, whilst the remainder is exported in bulk, much of it for use in lower performance applications. However, the standard grades of recycled steel that are traded internationally do not meet the purity or value in use crit...

The CirConAl project will provide the lowest embodied CO2 content aluminium alloys for the automotive industry, enabling light weighting at ultra-low embodied CO2 content of <1.0 tonne of CO2e per tonne of aluminium with, in time, a reduction to <0.5 tonnes/tonne and then to <0.2 tonnes/tonne. This will be achieved by taking a strategic approach to the al...

NdFeB magnets play a critical role in the fight against climate change as they are used in clean technologies such as wind turbines generators and motors in electric vehicles. As we transition to an electrically driven society then the demand for these materials will increase almost exponentially. The supply of these materials is geographically concentrat...

The UK produces around 11MT of scrap steel per annum. Around 2.6MT of this is used domestically to make higher performance steel products, whilst the remainder is exported in bulk, much of it for use in lower performance applications. However, the standard grades of recycled steel that are traded internationally do not meet the purity or value in use crit...

The electric revolution is gathering pace. As more vehicles become electrified, greater volumes of batteries and battery materials are required. These batteries will eventually reach end of life and must be repurposed or recycled. Currently, the UK lacks the infrastructure to recycle the batteries and recover their materials, so vehicle manufacturers are ...