The Circular Economy (CE) is a revolutionary alternative to a traditional linear, make-use-dispose economy. It is based on the central principle of maintaining continuous flows of resources at their highest value for the longest period and then recovering, cascading and regenerating products and materials at the end of each life cycle. Metals are ideal flows for a circular economy. With careful stewardship and good technology, metals mined from the Earth can be reused indefinitely.
Technology metals (techmetals) are an essential, distinct, subset of specialist metals. Although used in much smaller quantities than industrial metals such as iron and aluminium, each techmetal has its own specific and special properties that give it essential functions in devices ranging from smart phones, batteries, wind turbines and solar cells to electric vehicles. Techmetals are thus essential enablers of a future circular, low carbon economy and demand for many is increasing rapidly.
Our UKRI Met4Tech Centre brings together for the first time world-leading researchers to maximise opportunities around the provision of techmetals from primary and secondary sources, and lead materials stewardship, creating a National Techmetals Circular Economy Roadmap to accelerate us towards a circular economy.
The Met4Tech consortium brings together the Universities of Exeter, Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester and the British Geological Survey who are already working on how to improve the raw materials cycle, manufacture goods to be re-used and recycled, recycle complex goods such as batteries and use and re-use equipment for as long as possible before it needs recycling.
Company Details
- Employees
- 1
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Penryn, Gb
- Industry
- Mining
- NAICS
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Mining (except Oil and Gas)
- HQ
- Penryn
- Competitors
- Circular Metals, SOVAMEP SOCIETE DE VALORISATION DES METAUX ET METAUX PRECIEUX, Greenridge Exploration, UKRI CircularChem, UKRI Interdisciplinary Textiles Circularity Centre, The Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Metals, UKRI Circular Economy Hub (CE-HUB), Cornwall Mining and Geo-Resources Alliance, London Metal Exchange, Critical Minerals Association (UK).
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Met4Tech's LinkedIn profile is https://uk.linkedin.com/company/met4tech
Met4Tech has
1 employees.
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employees at Met4Tech.
Met4Tech's industry is
Mining
Met4Tech's top competitors are
Circular Metals,
Sovamep Societe De Valorisation Des Metaux Et Metaux Precieux,
Greenridge Exploration,
Ukri Circularchem,
Ukri Interdisciplinary Textiles Circularity Centre,
The Interdisciplinary Centre For Circular Metals,
Ukri Circular Economy Hub (Ce-Hub),
Cornwall Mining And Geo-Resources Alliance,
London Metal Exchange,
Critical Minerals Association (Uk).
Met4Tech's categories are Mining
Met4Tech's founding year is 2021
