NEWS

European Raw Materials Clustering Event

08-11-2024

Neo-Cycle was recently presented at the European Raw Materials Clustering Event in Seville, Spain, and at Ecomondo, the leading annual fair in the green and circular economy sectors in Rimini, Italy.

overview

The NEO-CYCLE project aims to demonstrate at TRL6 the sustainable upcycling of spent NdFeB magnets comings from hard disks drives (HDDs), reaching high quality end products for 4 case studies: pharmaceutical, ammonia, fertilizers, and polymers industries; and will include necessary paths to reach the market uptake. To reach this aim, NEO-CYCLE involves all the relevant actors in the value chain, from public authorities to WEEE recycler companies, technology developers, associations, NGOs, SMEs and commercial companies in the targeted sectors.

project timeline

partners

NEO-CYCLE consortium is a multidisciplinary team of 23 partners from 13 countries to be able to demonstrate the technical, economic, and social feasibility of the developed solution and bring it to the next level paving the market uptake. Each of them contributes to a core activity to the consortium and interacts with other partners in a direct way. The consortium is composed of 2 WEEE recycler SME companies, 4 public and non-public research organisations, 6 universities, 4 end-users that will demonstrate the viability of the upscaled processes as well as the validation of the obtained upcycled products, 1 SME company focused on sustainability assessments, 1 expert cluster in stakeholders’ engagement in materials value chains, 2 SME companies dealing with social participation, communication, dissemination and 2 NGOs for skills development and standardisation. Additionally, a public authority (Lombardy Region, REG) is also associated partner. The project coordinator IDENER.AI has a wide experience in EU research, with a portfolio of 59 funded projects from 10 years ago.