European project aims to recycle 80 percent of HETMO - Portugal’s INEGI, Romania’s IMNR, the U. of Witwatersrand and Eneris have joined the project.

Next-generation lithium-ion batteries are essential to a transition to renewable energy for green vehicles. But an important component of those batteries – high entropy transition metal oxides, or HETMO – is currently not produced sustainably.
That’s why Polish, Portuguese, South African, and Romanian partners have joined forces in HETMOLION, a European project to recycle at least 80 percent of HETMO from disused batteries.

The project is led by the Gliwice-based Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals of the Lukasiewicz Research Network in Poland, with researchers at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the National Research and Development Institute for Non-Ferrous and Rare Metals (IMNR) in Romania participating as well. Eneris, a group of companies based in Luxemburg and Poland, participates as an industry partner.