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Energy Storage & Generation

M-BAT

Battery-grade materials recover from primary and secondary sources through innovative technologies

The M-BAT project aims to strengthen the European Union’s strategic autonomy in the battery value chain by reducing dependence on imported critical raw materials for battery production.

The project will develop and demonstrate four innovative, sustainable and cost-efficient processes — GRANODE, RECO, RETAILCO and GEOLI — to produce battery-grade materials, specifically nickel, cobalt, manganese, lithium and graphite. The technologies will be scaled up and validated in an industrially relevant environment through the processing of European primary and secondary resources, including mine tailings, industrial sludges, black mass from lithium-ion batteries and geothermal brines.

The resulting materials will be validated through their integration into NMC811 cathodes and graphite anodes, ensuring alignment with industry and market requirements.

Another key pillar of M-BAT is the integration of a digitally enabled Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, combining mathematical modelling with comprehensive safety, environmental (LCA) and socio-economic (LCC and s-LCA) assessments to support the development of innovative, safer and more sustainable battery materials and processes.

M-BAT brings together a strategic consortium spanning the entire battery value chain, supporting the exploitation and scalability of the developed solutions, as well as business development, stakeholder engagement and social acceptance activities across Europe.

M-BAT

Main Goals/Activities

  • Strengthen the European Union’s strategic autonomy in the battery sector by reducing dependence on imported critical raw materials for battery production.

  • Develop and demonstrate four innovative, sustainable and cost-efficient processes (GRANODE, RECO, RETAILCO and GEOLI) for producing battery-grade materials.

  • Develop recycling and synthesis processes for precursors (Li₂CO₃, CoSO₄, NiSO₄, MnSO₄ and graphite) to produce active materials for NMC811 cathodes and graphite anodes.

  • Scale up the developed technologies to industrially relevant levels (TRL 6/7) to validate their technical and economic feasibility.
  • Validate the produced materials against benchmark materials and through their integration into battery components.

  • Build a resilient European battery value chain through collaboration across the industrial ecosystem.

  • Support the exploitation, business development and replication potential of the project outcomes across Europe.
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