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The OSAM Project (Optimum Shredder Alkaline Machine) is a beneficiary of the grant call for promoting the circular economy in companies for the year 2022 by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) under the framework of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan (PRTR) funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

At Envirobat Spain, we are committed to a circular economy model that focuses on modernizing the Spanish economy, recovering economic growth, and building a solid, inclusive, and resilient reconstruction. Therefore, we are developing the OSAM Project (Optimum Shredder Alkaline Machine), which aims to improve the management of alkaline battery waste and the mechanical treatment process, obtaining high-quality by-products. These by-products will be used as secondary raw materials for recycling valorization processes in a circular economy and industrial symbiosis. The project has a duration of 15.5 months.

Envirobat emphasizes the need to contribute to transforming our production model through innovation and sustainability, aligning with the European Union’s circular economy action objectives. We will make the planned investment in improving the management of alkaline battery waste by implementing separate collections for preparation, reuse, and recycling of other waste. This will generate economic, environmental, and social value, contributing to a new scenario characterized by the consolidation of an innovative, sustainable, and competitive industrial fabric capable of growing within a circular economy framework. We aim to improve the current management of treatment and recycling processes for these waste materials, adopting an environmentally friendly approach that enhances process efficiency and optimization, increases collection volume, and improves treatment. We will obtain high-quality by-products that can serve as resources and secondary raw materials for other small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry.

The OSAM Project stems from the need to offer innovative solutions to minimize the negative effects of generating this waste, reducing the overall impact of its use. We aim to improve the efficiency of its use and promote a low-carbon circular economy model, following the principles of eco-industrialism and fostering industrial symbiosis for efficient functioning of the domestic market and long-term competitiveness of Spain.

Envirobat Spain celebrates that the OSAM Project has been approved in the Final Resolution of the Circular Economy Promotion Grants dated 15-12-2023, under the third category of grants for improving waste management, published by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Assessment. The granted aid represents a total intensity of 55% of the proposed project investment, stimulating the promotion of a national strategy for industrial ecology. This concept is based on the rational management of raw materials and waste in neighboring industries within the same territory, creating a true industrial ecosystem in the region, where each industry benefits from the waste of others.

Envirobat’s goal is to achieve greater sustainability and promote an environment-friendly economy, moving towards a more circular economy that generates benefits such as reducing pressure on the environment, stimulating competitiveness, innovation, and economic growth.

Envirobat España participated with the presence of our CEO, Mr. Borja Álvarez, and the Commercial Director, Mr. Christophe Kleindienst, on October 19th at the Kick-off Meeting of the BATMASS Project, held at the Sala Consiglio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Envirobat is part of a consortium consisting of 15 entities that will develop the BATMASS Project, including notable participants such as Green Vision SASU, Universita Degli Studi di Pavia (UNIPV), Verkor, Lomarttov SL, Orano Mining, Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), ERP Italia Servizi SRL, Fundación Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (FCTA), Nanofaber SRL, Associazione Fabbrica Intelligente Lombardia (AFIL), N-Able, among others.

BATMASS aims to establish the first Circular Battery Valley in the EU for second-life, recycling, and remanufacturing of materials and black mass. It offers a portfolio of interregional investment in TRL6+ innovations in circular technologies and processes for battery materials. BATMASS mobilizes an interregional ecosystem centered around four demonstrators or “demonstration beacons” aimed at scaling up, commercializing, and deploying innovative green technologies. With a total investment cost close to €10,000,000.00, funded through the EU’s I3 Interregional Innovation and Research program, Envirobat is the 4th partner to receive the highest amount of granted aid for project development, with over €820,000.00.

BATMASS will save 59,000 tons of precursor materials and contribute to achieving the EU’s strategic objectives in terms of resilience and the environment. BATMASS mobilizes an interregional integrated ecosystem focused on scaling up, commercializing, and deploying innovative green recycling technology. Stay tuned for more updates on the EU BATMASS project!

Envirobat Spain, S.L., is developing the 2Cycle Project (Second Life for Lithium Ion Batteries); its main objective is the Eco-design, development, and manufacturing of a new product, a second-life battery prototype, by recovering, integrating, and reusing cylindrical Lithium Ion cells that have completed their first useful life cycle.

Envirobat Spain, S.L., leading the 2Cycle project, is developing an initiative that aims to promote a detailed, consistent, and value-enhancing Eco-design, so that the second life of batteries achieves optimal performance and refurbishment extends their useful life as long as possible, applying knowledge and technologies, supporting the development of the circular economy, electric mobility, and its value chain.

2Cycle is aligned with several Sustainable Development Goals and promotes the substitution, recovery, and valorization of resources for the ecological transition. This Project/Action is incentivized with a grant from the Investment Support Program: Adelante – Investment in Castilla La Mancha, co-financed by 80% from the European Regional Development Fund.

1. Ya puedes consultar la segunda Newsletter del Proyecto CarE-Service, donde se recoge la posición del consorcio respecto a la nueva legislación propuesta a nivel europeo en cuestión de baterías. También se presentan los nuevos servicios que se desarrollan en el marco del Proyecto, así como los potenciales modelos de negocio en la cadena de valor de metales.

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ENVIROBAT ESPAÑA is running the DIREN-LIP Project: ‘Discharge, Inertization and Non-thermal REcovery of Lithium from Primary batteries’, whose main objective is to study new recycling processes for primary Lithium batteries.

This project will allow the company to expand the know-how acquired in recent years by its R&D Department in recycling this type of battery and in the use of all the resulting fractions.

ENVIROBAT ESPAÑA, S.L. within the framework of the INVEST IN SPAIN Program, has had the support of ICEX and the co-financing of the European FEDER fund. Contract Nº: 2021/34.