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Medium Oil Alkyd - VALIRES RE 040.44

Umicore The historical roots of Umicore go back more than 200 years. The Group in its current form is the result of the coming together of a number of mining and smelting companies which gradually evolved into the materials-technology company Umicore is today. Umicore Precious Metals Refining 1887 - Start of a lead de-silvering...

PM / PGM refineries

Umicore Precious Metals Refining has the unique capability to efficiently recover precious metals from all kinds of intermediates generated in primary PM/PGM-industry and PM/PGM-processing industry. These intermediates can originate from primary or from secondary metals processing, out of internal or of side-stream circuits. The manufacturing...

The Medicine Maker Roundtable Blog - Part 4

Hear from three experts on cross-coupling about how catalysis research is relevant towards the chemical industry.

All Umicore Stationary Catalysts sites globally hold certificates ISO/TS 16949 for Quality, ISO 14001 for Environment and OHSAS 18001 for Health and Safety.

Cobalt Octoate - VALIREX Co 10 D60

Cobalt Octoate - VALIREX Co 12 D60

Zr Neodecanoate - VALIREX Zr 18 Neo PR D60

Press conference

Umicore and PowerCo announced the founding of a joint venture for precursor and cathode material production in Europe.

Applications Lanthanum is used in large quantities in nickel metal hydride (NiMH) rechargeable batteries for hybrid automobiles. The negative electrode (cathode) in NiMH batteries is a mixture of metal hydrides – typically a rare earth misch metal hydride containing praseodymium, neodymium, lanthanum and cerium. It is used as a petroleum cracking...

International Battery Seminar