Umicore

Umicore

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Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments.
 
Umicore focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference. Umicore generates approximately 50% of its revenues and spends approximately 80% of its R&D budget in the area of clean technology, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and precious metals recycling. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.
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2020
23 Mar 2020

CamX Power

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Leclanché

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2019
22 Nov 2019

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8 Nov 2019

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2018
9 Nov 2018

BMW sets out electric vehicle plan

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25 Oct 2018

BMW to develop sustainable life cycle loop for batteries

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28 Sep 2018

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16 Apr 2018

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11 Apr 2018

Stable And Sustainable Supply Of Cathode Materials For LIB

Umicore, Belgium
7 Apr 2018

Umicore Rechargeable Battery Materials

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28 Mar 2018

Leading Players Speak at Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing

The electric vehicle industry is on fire. Leading players of the emerging electric vehicle industry to speak at Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing in Berlin on 11-12 April.
2017
17 Oct 2017

Launch of European battery alliance

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2016
20 Dec 2016

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2015
17 Apr 2015

IDTechEx analyses the high stakes of the future automotive industry

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2014
21 Jul 2014

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2013
25 Jul 2013

Batteries 2020 - towards competitive European automotive batteries

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6 Mar 2013

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14 Jan 2013

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2012
22 Nov 2012

Lessons from EU Project Day on eMobility

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2011
24 Mar 2011

European battery project SOMABAT begins

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