Recycling

Biography

Biography: Stephane Bourg

Abstract

Refractory metals (tungsten, tantalum, rhenium, molybdenum and niobium) are highly strategic metals today mainly imported from a few countries. However, resources exist in Europe, as primary resources but mainly as secondary resources through recycling. Valorizing these resourcesrequires coordination and networking between researchers, entrepreneurs and public authorities to harmonise technologies, processes and services, develop standards, create new potential for export of eco-innovative solutions and for seizing newmarkets. By creating a multi-stakeholder platform that draws the currentrefractory metals value chains and identifies its innovation potential, MSP-REFRAM supports the implementation of the European Innovation Partnership on RawMaterials. Coming from industry, research, public sectors and civil society, both Consortium Members and External Expertshave joined forces with expertise covering the whole value chain including mining, processing, recycling, application.The outputs of MSP-REFRAM will help Europe improve the supply value chain of refractory metals in the coming years,optimising the use of external resources as energy and water and at the same time reducing the amount and the toxicity ofwaste.MSP-REFRAM will share its conclusions widely and efficiently, in a long lasting way thanks to the support of the PROMETIAassociation. To ensure the systemic change, the outcomes of the project will be made available to the stakeholders and tothe public through different tools and reports.This paper presents the organisation of the project as well as the first results obtained after the first technical workhsop.