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Recyclus and WMG Partnership
Recyclus and WMG Partnership.
About this update from Technology Minerals Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 9489U\n Technology Minerals PLC\n 08 December 2021\n \n \n \n \n 8 December 2021 \n \n \n \n Technology Minerals Plc\n \n \n \n \n (\"Technology Minerals\" or the \"Company\") \n \n \n \n \n \n Recyclus and WMG Partner on Battery Research & Development\n \n \n Creating Leadership Team in UK Battery Recycling Technologies\n \n \n \n \n \n Technology Minerals Plc (LSE: TM1), the first listed UK company focused on creating a sustainable circular economy for battery metals, is pleased to announce that Recyclus Group, a 49% Technology Minerals owned company, has agreed an engineering development partnership with WMG at the University of Warwick,\n a \n leading academic group providing research, education and knowledge transfer in engineering, management, manufacturing and technology.\n \n \n \n \n \n WMG and Recyclus have created an Engineering Doctorate (\"EngD\") focused on battery recycling technologies and a transfer of current and future applications. The EngD encompasses a four-year programme supporting talented individuals at varying career stages to develop new critical skills sets in this sector and will also focus on addressing contemporary industrial and technical challenges across the battery recycling sector.\n \n \n Recyclus has developed the first industrial scale process that can work across all of the key Lithium-ion (\"Li-ion\") battery technologies and Recyclus and WMG will be sharing this important technology through the research programmes at WMG, working across a range of development areas.\n \n \n \n Professor David Greenwood,\n \n \n WMG Director for Industrial Engagement and CEO of the WMG centre High Value Manufacturing Catapult\n \n \n said:\n \n \n \n \n \"Whilst the UK industry has been remarkable in building a world class ecosystem supporting the development of our battery manufacturing capability, we must continue to innovate to capitalise on that success. \n \n \n \n \n \n \"In our September 2020 report, WMG highlighted that by 2040, UK automotive lithium-ion battery cell production alone will require 131,000 tonnes of cathodic metals. With the right infrastructure, recycling can supply 22% of this demand. This represents not only a p...