Actualités Ingénierie, Recyclage, Climat
Pre-treatment solution for electric vehicle batteries!
30 April 2025
Actualités Ingénierie, Recyclage, Climat
30 April 2025
The main criticism of electric mobility concerns the displacement of pollution from the use phase to the end-of-life phase of lithium-ion batteries.
That’s why, since 2019, the MTB Group’s Research & Development teams have been committed to finding a recycling solution: the Zero Waste Battery (ZWB) line, a pilot pre-treatment line for electric vehicle batteries.
MTB’s R&D approach to this issue is aimed at maximizing the recovery rate of strategic metals and their quality, whatever the battery chemistry, in order to ensure a circular economy.
ince September 2023, the ZWB line has been demonstrating our ability to process used lithium-ion batteries and gigafactory production scrap with an active material recovery rate of over 95% on certain streams, anticipating the 2031 objectives of European battery regulations. It is a strategic response to the environmental and economic challenges of future lithium-ion battery waste.
The development and installation of the ZWB pilot line has received funding from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region (Black CO2MET project), #France2030 via ADEME (EVAPOR8 and Scrap CO2MET) and Europe (BatrawProjectEU project).
