Green Metals Production
Supplying the materials that power the world’s transition to a low-carbon future.
POLVOLT is designed to produce a new generation of green metals — responsibly recovered raw materials that support electrification, renewable energy deployment and sustainable industrial growth across Europe and beyond.
What Are Green Metals?
Materials with a fundamentally lower environmental footprint.
Green metals are materials produced with significantly lower environmental impact compared to conventional mining and refining routes.
As industries worldwide strive to reduce emissions and improve supply chain sustainability, demand for responsibly sourced metals continues to grow.
By recovering valuable materials from batteries and electronic waste, POLVOLT helps transform existing resources into new industrial value — while reducing dependence on primary extraction.
Closing the Loop
Modern technologies rely on metals — POLVOLT puts them back into circulation.
Electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, consumer electronics and digital infrastructure all require critical raw materials to function. Yet many of these materials remain in products that have reached the end of their lifecycle.
Step 01
Products in use
EVs, electronics and infrastructure — packed with critical metals.
Step 02
End of life
Batteries and e-waste collected — resources locked inside.
Step 03
POLVOLT recovery
Pyro + hydrometallurgy separate and refine strategic metals.
Step 04
Back to circulation
Green metals return to European industry — closing the loop.
Materials for the Energy Transition
A broad portfolio for Europe’s industrial future
The facility will recover and produce a broad portfolio of metals essential for Europe’s industrial future — from battery-grade materials to base metals for infrastructure and manufacturing.
Battery Metals
Lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese are fundamental components of modern battery technologies used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems.
Lithium
Nickel
Cobalt
Manganese
Copper
Copper remains one of the most important materials for electrification, renewable energy infrastructure and power transmission — the backbone of the energy transition.
Copper
Precious Metals
Gold, silver and platinum group metals play a critical role in electronics, industrial applications and emerging clean technologies.
Gold
Silver
Platinum
Palladium
Industrial Metals
Aluminum, lead, tin and iron continue to support manufacturing, infrastructure and advanced industrial production across Europe.
Aluminum
Lead
Tin
Iron
Supporting European Industry
Building sovereign supply of strategic materials.
Europe’s demand for critical raw materials is expected to increase significantly over the coming decades.
POLVOLT contributes to building a secure and sustainable supply of strategically important materials by creating domestic recovery and refining capacity within the European Union.
The project directly supports the objectives of the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) and broader European efforts to strengthen industrial competitiveness and resource independence.
EU Regulatory Framework
Critical Raw Materials Act
A cornerstone EU regulation ensuring a secure, diversified, affordable and sustainable supply of critical raw materials for Europe’s economy.
Lower Carbon Footprint
Recycled beats primary — by a wide margin.
Relative GHG reduction
86%
Lower greenhouse gas emissions vs. conventional production routes — directly contributing to Europe’s climate goals.
Building Tomorrow’s Circular Economy
A future where resources stay in circulation.
Green metals represent more than an alternative source of raw materials.
They are a cornerstone of a modern industrial ecosystem where valuable resources remain in circulation for as long as possible.
By combining innovation, industrial expertise and advanced recycling technologies, POLVOLT is helping shape a future where sustainability and economic growth go hand in hand.
Innovation Fund
Supported by the European Union
POLVOLT is co-financed by the European Union Innovation Fund — one of the world’s largest funding programmes for innovative low-carbon technologies.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.