REWIMET

The REWIMET eV is an association of companies in the recycling industry, local authorities and research institutions. The main purpose is to ensure the availability of raw materials through innovations in metal recycling. The club members employ around 46,000 people and have annual sales of around 9.5 billion euros.

The association was founded in 2011 as REWIMET Recyclingcluster Economic Strategic Metals Lower Saxony eV in Goslar .

purpose

The focus of the activity serves to promote science and research through the development of recycling strategies and processes through to industrial implementation. The most important target elements are metals, which are classified by the German Federal Government as raw materials of strategic economic importance . The recycling of metals protects the environment and the climate by reducing CO ₂ emissions compared to new production.

aims

Improvement of the supply, accessibility, quality, usability and use of technologies for metal recycling for all areas of society
Strengthening the regional economic structure in Germany
Contribution to increasing the share of regional added value
Bundling of recycling competencies from business and science
Promotion of topic-related knowledge and technology transfer
Policy advice.

activities

Research projects

"More Aero": Mobile aircraft recycling (BMBF, grant number: 033R075), technology user: MoreAero GmbH, Hamburg
"TaRec": Recycling of tantalum from electronic scrap (AiF, funding number: KF2559903KO4)
"MORE": Recycling of rare earth elements from electromobility motors (BMBF, funding number: 03X4622)
"InAccess": Development of a holistic, resource-efficient and economically feasible collection, return and recycling system for LCD screen devices with the aim of indium recycling from LCDs (BMBF, funding number: 033R088)
"ROBEHA": Use of the raw material potential of mining and smelting heaps taking into account sustainability using the example of the West Harz (BMBF, funding number: 033R105F)
"TönsLM": raw material recovery from landfills - land fill mining (BMBF, funding number: 033R090)
"HTMET": Metals relevant to high technology in German sulfidic non-ferrous metal ores - resource potential assessment (BMBF, funding number: 033R131C)
"SEMAREC": Development of an industrially feasible recycling technology chain for NdFeB magnets (BMBF, funding number: 033R142A)
"ElmoReL2020": Electric vehicle recycling 2020 - key component power electronics (BMU, funding number: 16EM2032-2)
"REWITA": Recycling of mining processing residues for the extraction of economically strategic metals using the example of tailings at Bollrich (BMBF, funding number: 033R136G)
"AVAntiE": processing method for antimony from electrical and electronic scrap (AIF-ZIM, funding number: KF2559904TA4)
"Recycling 2.0 - the turnaround in recyclable materials": Holistic optimization of structures, as well as the development and utilization of anthropogenic potential and storage facilities (BMBF, funding code: 03PSZZF2B)
"Recycling 4.0": Digitization as the key to the advanced circular economy using the example of innovative vehicle systems (EFRE)
"Recycling region Harz": successful implementation of research results from projects in the Harz region

Promotion of young talent

The association is intensively dedicated to promoting young talent in order to recruit qualified personnel for the recycling industry. It arranges apprenticeships for commercial and industrial professions, study places for dual study courses and internships for students. This also includes a scholarship program for students.

Recycling profiles

To disseminate recycling-relevant information on critical raw materials, REWIMET publishes so-called recycling profiles. They contain data on the supply situation, reserves and resources in natural and anthropogenic storage sites, links to price information, types of scrap, recycling technologies and business models for recycling.

Events

The association regularly organizes symposia in which the latest research results are presented.

Individual evidence

[1] ttps://rewimet.de

[2] Articles of Association (PDF)

[3] ttps://docplayer.org/14371230-Der-recycling-cluster-wirtschaftsstrategische-metalle-rewimet-ev.html

[4] ttps://metalleproklima.de/recycling/klimaschutzpotenziale-des-metallrecyclings-und-des-anthropogene-lagers/

[5] ttps://www.nds.de/de/branchen/leichtbau-stoffen/innovatives-recycling

[6] ttp://moreaero.de/

[7] ttps://www.ifa.tu-clausthal.de/de/lehrstuehle/lehrstuhl-fuer-rohstoffaufnahm-und-recycling/forschung/abeschlossen-projekte-wahl/tarec/

[8] ttps://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A826920594/Recycling-von-Komponenten-und-strategischen-Metallen/

[9] ttps://www.tib.eu/en/search/id/TIBKAT%3A872390462/

[10] ttp://www.robeha.de/ROBEHA/DE/Home/robeha_node.html

[11] ttps://www.tu-braunschweig.de/isww/forschung/toenslm

[12] ttps://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Min_rohstoffe/Projekte/Lagerstaettenforschung-laufend/HTMET.html

[13] ttps://www.r4-innovation.de/de/semarec.html

[14] ttp://www.resourcefever.org/project/elektrofahrzeugrecycling-2020-schluesselverbindungen-leistungselek.html

[15] ttps://www.r4-innovation.de/de/rewita.html

[16] ttp://eu-recycling.com/Archive/14636

[17] ttps://www.unternehmen-region.de/de/7747.php

[18] ttps://www.tu-braunschweig.de/iwf/pul/forschung/projekte/recycling4

[19] ttps://wertstoffwende.eu/recyclingregion_harz.html

[20] ttps://www.rewimet.de/aktivitaeten/nachwuchsfoerderung

[21] ttps://www.rewimet.de/mission/metallrecycling

[22] ttps://www.rewimet.de/aktivitaeten/archiv