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Electric batteries: Hauts-de-France attracts new recycling plant 03/07/2024
- - Dimensions of Hydrovolt plant: Approx. 3,000 square meters.
- - Location of Hydrovolt plant: Hordain, Nord, near Valenciennes, France.
- - Hydrovolt foundation: 2022.
- - Recycling capacity of existing Fredrikstad site: Around 12,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries per year, equivalent to 25,000 electric cars.
- - Metal recovery rate from Hydrovolt's recycling processes: 95% of contained metal elements.
- - Objective: Secure European supplies of critical metals from battery recycling.
- - European legislation (Critical Raw Materials Act) stipulates that a quarter of the EU's annual consumption of strategic raw materials must come from recycling by 2030.
- - Number of battery gigafactories announced for Europe: Around fifty.
Hydrovolt invests in a battery dismantling site at Hordain in northern France 03/07/2024
- Hydrovolt: Joint venture between Hydro and Northvolt founded in 2020.
- Jobs generated: Between 5 and 15 people
- Scheduled opening: Mid-2025, subject to obtaining the necessary permits.
- Hydrovolt activity: Mechanical recycling plant in Fredrikstad capable of processing 12,000 tons of battery packs.
- Operation in France: First stage in the recycling of used batteries, processing a few thousand tonnes of modules per year.
- Fortum hydrometallurgical recycling plant capacity: Opening in 2023, first in Europe, located in Harjavalta (Finland).
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The battery market - France
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- Tesla
- CATL
- LG Chem
- Theion
- Verkor
- Viridian Lithium
- Green Corp Konnection GCK
- Vulcan Energy
- Blue Solutions (Bolloré Groupe)
- Alteo
- Iten
- Panasonic
- Tiamat Energy
- Eramet
- Tyva Energie
- Li-Cycle
- Limatech
- Inocel
- Glencore
- Neogy (Startec Energy Groupe)
- GS Yuasa
- BYD
- Foresee Power
- Batteries Prod
- Vélo Batterie- Batteries Prod
- Toyota
- Stellantis (Groupe PSA et Fiat)
- Volkswagen Group
- Audi (Volkswagen Group)
- Tata Group
- Bolloré
- Mecaware
- Nawa Technologies
- BMW
- Samsung Group
- SK Group Korea
- Nissan
- Arkema groupe
- Mob-Energy
- Batconnect
- Hydrovolt
- Wattalps
- Vlad