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Nyobolt, Altilium Clean Technology, Talga Group and a lead automotive OEM are now partnering to deliver a critical recycling programme as part of Innovate UK‘s £452M Battery Innovation Programme.

The aim of this closed-loop programme is to keep critical battery materials in the UK. The three companies recover graphite and niobium-based anode material from spent packs, restore them to battery grade, and put them straight back into new cells. This is a genuine closed loop. It is not a recycling side-project bolted onto business as usual.

Each company owns a distinct step. Altilium recovers graphite and Nyobolt’s niobium-based anode material (NWO) from end-of-life packs and manufacturing scrap. Talga purifies the recovered graphite to battery grade. Nyobolt reconditions both materials into new high-power cells. Waste goes in at one end. Working product comes out the other.

The reason for the programme is straightforward. The UK imports almost all of its battery graphite today, and the country has little capacity to refine battery waste at home. Recycling graphite at home reduces that reliance and builds industrial capacity at home.

Worth stating plainly: our high-power-density chemistry means smaller, lighter packs which also means less raw material demanded per battery in the first place. Less raw material goes into every battery in the first place. Recovering what has already been made then cuts demand again. Performance and circularity pull in the same direction here, not against each other. A better cell is also a leaner one.

Performance and circularity pulling in the same direction.