New EU project on RE Magnet: SUPREEMO

March 4, 2024

September 6, 2024

New publication of CEPS on a qualitative-exploratory analysis of the recycling of Rare-Earth permanent magnets

CEPS team has just published another article based on insights from INSPIRES project. The paper on ”Understanding the barriers to recycling critical raw materials for the energy transition: The case of rare earth permanent magnets”. The article is published in Energy Reports vol. 12, year 2024 pages 1673–1682. This is an open access article under...

August 23, 2024

IEEE Magnetic Frontiers 2024 Conference on Magnets

Next September 2024 the IEEE Magnetic Frontiers 2024 “ Magnetic Materials and Motors for Green Energy Applications” Conference will take place in Darmstadt (Germany) The Conference will be focused on recent advances in the development and implementation of high-performance magnetic materials for energy applications. More specifically, topics of permanent magnets, soft magnets and magnetocaloric materials...

August 9, 2024

Strong participation of INSPIRES project in the International Conference on Magnetism ICM- 2024

The past ICM-2024 that took place in Bologna, Italy, 30th June – 5th July 2024, had several contributions from INSPIRES. In the Session Critical challenges and Magnetic Materials (raw materials, sustainability, automotive)” Prof. Spomenka Kobe from JSI had an invited talk titled “Sustainable Processing of Innovative Rare-Earth Magnets”. She presented a general view of the...

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June 21, 2024

Welcome to the Horizon Europe project BEETHOVEN

The Beethoven Project (Substitution of Rare-Earths for advanced novel Magnets in Energy and Transport Applications) just started! Beethoven project is on a mission to develop innovative and sustainable advanced magnetic materials that substitute REE in the energy and transportation sectors. This project will work on developing and upscaling 3 types of magnetic phases: high-entropy alloys,...

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June 21, 2024

Welcome to the Horizon Europe project GREENE

Just at the beginning of June, a consortium of 15 European partners led by the Slovenian Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) kicked off GREENE, short for SINGLE-GRAIN RE-ENGINEERED Nd-Fe-B PERMANENT MAGNETS, an EU project with a funding of €8 million. Over a four-year period, partners will develop high-energy Nd-Fe-B based magnets, innovatively re-engineering them at the...

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June 21, 2024

Welcome to the Horizon-Europe MagNeO project

We give the welcome to the MagNeO project and their partners to the Community projects working in the challenge to develop a more green society through the development of sustainable permanent magnets. The MagneO project has the main goal to replace rare earth elements (REE) in the production of permanent magnets (PM) with REE-free AlNiCo...

June 18, 2024

Final INSPIRES meeting

INSPIRES project is arriving to the end. All partners met in Portorož (Slovenia) the 6th and 7th of June to present the most relevant results in terms of developments and research. The meeting was successfully organized by JSI partner. Key results on dismantling and recovering magnets, recycling processes and final products and their sustainable performance...

May 21, 2024

New publication of INSPIRES teams on recycling of magnetic scraps

“Processability and Separability of Commercial Anti-Corrosion Coatings Produced by In Situ Hydrogen-Processing of Magnetic Scrap (HPMS) Recycling of NdFeB” is the title of the article ì by Laura Grau Peter Fleissner, Spomenka Kobe and Carlo Burkhardt from JSI and Pforzheim University. This is published in Materials 17 (2024) 2487. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17112487. In this work the recyclability...

May 17, 2024

Next M39 INSPIRES Meeting

The next INSPIRES project Meeting will take place June 6th and 7th in Koper (Slovenia) organized by JSI. During these 2 days the most recent results of the project will be presented and discussed. The final activities of the project will be planned.

May 17, 2024

Final workshop of the MetroCycleEU project

The MetroCycleEU metrology consortium is organising a final workshop of the project dedicated to improving the quantification of Technology Critical Elements in electronic wastes and batteries. The workshop will take place online on the 23rd of May 2023 from 14:00 to 17:00 (CEST). Information and registration on MetroCycleEU LinkedIn page or on metrocycle.eu.

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March 4, 2024

New EU project on RE Magnet: SUPREEMO

March 4, 2024

REIA – REEsilience Conference on Innovations in Rare Earths and Magnet Applications, March 28, 2024

The Rare Earth Industry Association (REIA) is organizing on 28th March in Brussels a one-day conference in partnership with REEsilience project, REEproduce, FutuRaM and INSPIRES projects. Key stakeholders from the rare-earth industry, R&D institutes and policy makers will join to discuss about the latest advances and innovations in the sector. Key topics of discussions will...

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February 23, 2024

Article on Life Cycle Assessment of Rare Earth Free Permanent Magnet Alternatives

An international team of the EU project Passenger has just published a LCA study on ferrite and MnAlC permanent magnets. The work of Amato et al. is titled “Life Cycle Assessment of Rare Earth Elements-Free Permanent Magnet Alternatives: Sintered Ferrite and Mn−Al−C” was published in ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2023, 11, 13374−13386. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c02984 The possible...

February 23, 2024

Review on RE-PM and electrification by JSI and Kolektor teams

How Will Rare Earths Affect Electrification? is the main question that the novel review of our colleagues of JSI and Kolektor try to answer in their novel review : The Future of Permanent-Magnet-Based Electric Motors: How Will Rare Earths Affect Electrification? by B. Podmiljsak et al published in Material s 17 (2024) 848; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17040848 The...

January 24, 2024

INSPIRES will participate in VIII Italian Conference on Magnetism

CNR partner will present different contributions related to recycling permanent magnets in the VIII Italian Conference on Magnetism that will take place in Milano (Italy) February, 7th to 9th 2024. The Conference will hace two sessions related to hard magnetic materials and sustainable magnets. More information in the web site.

SUstainable EuroPean Rare Earth Elements production value chain from priMary Ores (SUPREEMO) HE project aims to establish the first pre-commercial Rare Earth Elements (REEs) production value chain (TRL7) using European (EU) primary resources as feedstock, developing sustainable, cost-competitive processing, refining and Rare Earth (RE) Permanent Magnet (PM) production technologies in a responsible way complying with local and international safety regulations.
SUPRREMO started at 1 January 2024 and it will take 4 years and it is supported in the framework of the topic HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-03 – Technologies for processing and refining of critical raw materials (IA) with a contribution of around 6 M€.

REIA - REEsilience Conference on Innovations in Rare Earths and Magnet Applications, March 28, 2024

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