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Umicore announces the placement of €500 million in convertible bonds due 2025
Refining
Umicore JIM processes all types of scrap that contain gold, silver, platinum and palladium, such as ashes, sweeps, metallics, dental, industrial and coins.
Metals/Products
Service to refining customers By providing distinctive services to our refining customers, Umicore Precious Metals Refining is recognized as a world class player, not only for the quality of its technologies and products, but also for the quality of its services. The company often acts as a toll refiner, where the valuable metals...
A second chance for second life

Europe has a transformative, urgent opportunity to put circularity at the heart of its economy and reduce its needless overreliance on others for critical minerals. This chance must not go to waste.

In an era where international relations are becoming resolutely transactional and global supply chains are under threat,...
Supervisory board
Learn about Umicore's supervisory board members and their roles.
Service Portfolio
Long-term partnerships for sustainable results Our solid market position not only reflects the continuous high quality of our products and services. It's as much a consequence of our approach to work in long-term partnerships towards shared objectives with our customers. Providing single-source engineered solutions to our customers...
Global Battery Alliance Launches World’s First Battery Passport Proof of Concept
To establish a sustainable battery value chain by 2030, the GBA launched today the proof of concept for its Battery Passport.
Global Battery Alliance Launches World’s First Battery Passport Proof of Concept
The Global Battery Alliance (“GBA”), the world’s largest multi-stakeholder organisation to establish a sustainable battery value chain by 2030, today launched the proof of concept for its Battery Passport at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

The Battery Passport is key to facilitating the rapid scaling of sustainable, circular...
Global Battery Alliance Launches World’s First Battery Passport Proof of Concept
The Global Battery Alliance (“GBA”), the world’s largest multi-stakeholder organisation to establish a sustainable battery value chain by 2030
Global Battery Alliance Launches World’s First Battery Passport Proof of Concept
The Global Battery Alliance (“GBA”), the world’s largest multi-stakeholder organisation to establish a sustainable battery value chain by 2030, today launched the proof of concept for its Battery Passport at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

The Battery Passport is key to facilitating the rapid scaling of sustainable, circular...
Designing athermal lenses for LWIR systems
Introduction Due to advances in materials and manufacturing technologies, the vast majority of lenses used on long-wave infrared (LWIR) cameras are simple: One- or two- element designs with an emphasis on low-cost manufacturing. One effect of this is that most of these cameras are supplied without …
The evolution of lens designs for 12micron uncooled LWIR detectors

John W. Franks (a), Thomas Hingant (b), Paul Vervoort (c)a - Umicore Electro-Optic Materials, Kinnoull Street, Dundee DD2 3ED, b - Umicore IR Glass, ZA du Boulais, 35690 Acigné, France; c - Umicore EOM NV, Watertorenstraat 33, B2250 Olen, Belgium;