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DHL Supply Chain has signed a long-term contract with Fortum Battery Recycling, a division of Nordic vitality firm Fortum, to handle logistics providers that assist the gathering, transport, and recycling of EV batteries. The partnership marks a big step ahead for Europe’s round economic system, positioning each corporations as key gamers in sustainable e-mobility infrastructure.
Fortum Battery Recycling affords the one European answer overlaying each stage of the battery recycling value chain. Its superior restoration processes extract crucial uncooked supplies—lithium, cobalt, and nickel—from spent EV batteries with low CO₂ emissions and minimal waste. This collaboration permits Fortum to scale its operations extra effectively whereas aligning with regional sustainability objectives.
DHL’s position contains dealing with your entire logistics spectrum: from the protected transportation and interim storage of used EV batteries to their well timed supply at Fortum’s recycling facilities. These specialised service logistics guarantee easy, safe operations and compliance with excessive security and environmental requirements.
“Our collaboration with Fortum underscores our dedication to offering modern logistics options to satisfy the rising calls for of e-mobility,” mentioned Hendrik Venter, CEO at DHL Provide Chain EMEA. “Via our experience and world attain, we assist speed up the vitality transition whereas sustaining top-tier security and sustainability.”
Anssi Airas, Head of Enterprise Line Battery at Fortum, added,
“The electrification of Europe is just not potential with out battery recycling happening in Europe, for Europe. Our partnership with DHL is a crucial piece of that puzzle.”
As world demand for EVs continues to rise, this partnership units a precedent for a way logistics and clean tech corporations can work collectively to shut useful resource loops, cut back environmental impacts, and construct infrastructure to assist a low-carbon economic system.
