UMICORE


Umicore is a global materials technology and recycling group. It focuses on application areas where its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy makes a real difference. Its activities re-organized in three business groups: Catalysis, Energy & Surface Technologies and Recycling. Each business group is divided into market-focused business units offering materials and solutions that are at the cutting edge of new technological developments and essential to everyday life. Umicore generates the majority of its revenues and dedicates most of its R&D efforts to clean mobility materials and recycling. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on an ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life. Umicore’s industrial and commercial operations as well as R&D activities are located across the world to best serve its global customer base. The Group generated a turnover of € 14.8 billion (€ 3.3 billion excluding metal) in 2018 and currently employs 10,400 people. Umicore will develop active materials for the positive electrode bases on layered oxides that will be tuned for the electrolyte and the electrode manufacturing processes developed in this project. Umicore will here benefit from its expertise in the development and commercialization of such materials for traditional Li-ion batteries

 


Country: Belgium
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