Tatton Consulting supported Plymouth-based EV battery recycling company Altilium in its successful application to Automotive Transformation Fund Scale up Readiness Validation (SuRV), awarded £1,002,083 by Innovate UK for the project Pilot demonstration of a novel extraction process to recover critical metals from end-of-life Li-ion batteries for immediate entry into electric vehicle battery supply chain.
About the funded R&D project
Following the feasibility work, this Scale up Readiness project moved Altilium’s extraction process from concept to pilot demonstration. Scale-up is where hydrometallurgical recovery processes typically fail, because recovery rates achieved in the laboratory rarely survive contact with mixed, contaminated real-world feedstock.
Award details
- Grant awarded: £1,002,083
- Competition: Automotive Transformation Fund Scale up Readiness Validation (SuRV)
- Competition year: 2022/23
- Project: Pilot demonstration of a novel extraction process to recover critical metals from end-of-life Li-ion batteries for immediate entry into electric vehicle battery supply chain
- Sector: Battery recycling / scale-up
- UKRI project record: Gateway to Research, project 10036165
- Dataset: Innovate UK funded projects, published 10 August 2026
Tatton Consulting supported the competitive grant application. The award value, competition and project title are taken from UKRI’s published record for this project.
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