Overview
REEPRODUCE is a consortium project with a €12.6 million total budget (€10.1 million EU-funded) running for 56 months across 15 partners in 8 countries. The project focuses on developing sustainable methods to extract and recycle Rare Earth Elements, particularly for permanent magnet production, to meet growing demand from clean energy and mobility solutions.
In the news
- REEPRODUCE has been featured as a Results in Brief on CORDIS, with an interview with REEPRODUCE's project coordinator, Dr. Ana Maria Martinez from SINTEF. “REEs are an important component in the strongest permanent magnets that exist today. They are so strong that even small amounts give you the magnetic properties you need (for building lower-weight electric vehicles or offshore wind turbines for example)," explains Martinez. Read the full article on https://lnkd.in/e3SD5Ueb Photo: © Martin Barraud/KOTO/Adobe Stock, 2026
- We're pleased to see European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has recommended our latest policy recommendations on rare earth permanent magnet recycling as one of five summer reads. 📚 If you haven't read it yet, take a deep dive into it now on Zenodo: https://lnkd.in/euW_3tac.
- By 2050, EU demand for #Neodymium (Nd), #Praseodymium (Pr), and #Dysprosium (Dy) in wind power is projected to grow five- to six-fold. For Nd and Dy in e-mobility (traction motors), growth is projected at nine- to ten-fold. These elements are already among the EU's highest-risk #CRMs. At the same time, by 2030, Europe is projected to generate around half of global end-of-life (#EoL) magnet scrap from wind turbines and a quarter from EV motors. This is an important opportunity for Europe. However, most of that valuable material is
- Recent export controls and trade restrictions have exposed how fragile Europe's rare earth supply chains are. Permanent magnets used in wind turbines, electric vehicles and industrial applications contain some of Europe's highest-risk critical raw materials, yet these materials are rarely recovered at end of life. Securing alternative sources starts with recovering what is already embedded in end-of-life (EoL) products on the European market, but this cannot be achieved without resolving some practical barriers first. We are
- The REEPRODUCE partner Elkem ASA has completed hot commissioning of its robot system for recovering rare earth alloys (REA). In the project, ELKEM runs the high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) cell. Compared with the earlier #REE4EU project, the updated cell adds more automation and changes that improve working conditions and increase output. Here's what happened: 🟢 One particular labour-intensive step is the manual tapping of the produced REA. To address this, ELKEM has built a robot arm used for harvesting the produced
- Today and tomorrow, REEPRODUCE is at E-Waste World Expo in Frankfurt, the world's premier trade show and conference bringing together recyclers, manufacturers, material processors, and industry innovators focused on advancing the circular economy for electronic devices across the globe. 📍 Are you on site and interested in learning more about the REEPRODUCE project? Come and have a chat with partners Ivo Willems from Bronneberg B.V. and Thorsten Ihne from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg at stand J60. More information about the project:
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