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At a formal certificate presentation ceremony, Federal Minister for Family Affairs Dr. Franziska Giffey presented the berufundfamilie certificate to the materials technology and recycling group Umicore. The company received the award for the fifth…

Last Friday, the recycling and materials technology group Umicore celebrated the 10th anniversary of its in-house daycare center, “umikids world,” together with company representatives, employees, and their children. Since the daycare center opened…

Through this acquisition Umicore expands its integrated battery materials footprint Umicore announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Freeport Cobalt’s cobalt refining and cathode precursor activities in Kokkola, Finland, for a…

Formula E to work with Umicore to recycle the battery cells used to power the fully-electric racing cars The ABB FIA Formula E Championship has today announced a new partnership with Umicore - the Belgian materials technology and recycling group -…

Record results in 2018

Umicore has been ranked 7th in the 2019 top 100 of the world’s most sustainable companies published by Corporate Knights, a research division focused on sustainable performance rankings. Umicore is also ranked number 1 globally among companies…

Umicore announced today that it will be expanding its production capacity for fuel cell catalysts in South-Korea to support the growth of Hyundai Motors Group as well as other automotive customers.

Multi-family therapy, support for socially disadvantaged families, and measures to make hospital stays as comfortable as possible for children and their accompanying families—the scope of the four Hanau-based initiatives that Umicore is supporting…

Umicore announced today that Pascal Reymondet, Executive Vice President Catalysis, will retire as planned on 31 January 2019.

Typewriters, fountain pens, index cards, hanging file folders, and carbon-copy forms—these were the standard tools of the trade for those who began their commercial training 40 years ago. In the meantime, the world of work has changed…

To give customers the opportunity to learn firsthand about Umicore’s precious metal bars, the materials technology and recycling group will once again be exhibiting at the International Precious Metals and Raw Materials Fair in Munich this year.

Audi and Umicore have successfully completed phase one of their strategic research cooperation for battery recycling. The two partners are developing a closed loop for components of high-voltage batteries that can be used again and again.