Media gallery
Welcome to Umicore’s media gallery.
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Battery CAM powder is weighed as part of a 'recipe' with other elements (binder and carbon) to then test its performance.
Battery assembly in a test environment. The black cut-out of the CAM is assembled in a coin cell.
Coin cell batteries are repeatedly charged and discharged in a controlled environment to study the CAM’s reactions.
Cobalt oxide and cobalt hydroxide testing in Umicore's battery metals refining site.
Colleagues sampling a raw material barrel for our automotive catalyst technology and innovation.
Colleagues inspecting our automotive catalyst coating product in substrates.
Umicore logo signage in our main office building at our Battery Materials site in Nysa, Poland.
The flagship of the company’s recycling business, built in 2009.
Umicore’s video on How do electric cars work?
Cathode active materials (CAM) and their precursors (pCAM)
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Umicore Cathode active materials
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From left to right: R. Donald Maracle - Chief at Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Ralph Kiessling - EVP Umicore, Vic Fedeli - Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade of Ontario, Doug Ford - Premier of Ontario, Mathias Miedreich - CEO Umicore, Francois-Philippe Champagne - Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada, Patrick Van Gheel - Ambassador of Belgium to Canada, Jim Hegadorn - Mayor Loyalist Township, Shoichi Matsumoto - CEO AESC, Randy De Palma, Canada Managing Director Umicore, Stefan Brandlhuber - VP Purchasing BMW Group, Ric Bresee - MPP of Ontario for Hasting and Lennox & Addington. In Loyalist, Ontario, Canada 16th October 2023
Umicore groundbreaking event in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada 16th October 2023
Umicore groundbreaking event in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada 16th October 2023
Render of the preliminary conceptual design of the main entrance of Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada.
Preliminary conceptual design and visualization of the future Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada.
Preliminary conceptual design and visualization of the future Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada.
Aerial picture of the site location and future construction site of Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada - taken in September 2023.
Aerial picture of the site location and future construction site of Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada - taken in September 2023.
The ‘Home of the X’ is also becoming the ‘Home of the Battery Electric Vehicle’ (10/2022).
High-voltage batteries will be produced to supply the production of fully electric vehicles at nearby BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg (06/2023).
Visualization of the future AESC battery facility in Florence, South Carolina.
Meeting about Umicore’s plans to build a precursor and cathode active materials plant in Loyalist, Ontario, July 2022.
Preliminary conceptual design of Umicore in Loyalist, Canada
Video with preliminary conceptual design of the Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Canada
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Introductory video on Umicore's battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Canada
Video introducing Umicore's expansion of its EV battery materials production footprint with CAM and pCAM plant in Ontario, Canada
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Live stream recording of Umicore Groundbreaking Ceremony in Loyalist, Canada
16th October 2023
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Drone footage of Umicore Groundbreaking Ceremony in Loyalist, Canada
16th October 2023
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Infographic showing the cost structure of a battery cell, where cathode active materials are the single biggest contributor to overall battery cost and key lever for battery performance.
Infographic on IONWAY - joint venture for production of precursor (pCAM) and cathode active materials (CAM).
Infographic showing Umicore, PowerCo and IONWAY's activities within Europe.
Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023
Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023
Teams from PowerCo, Umicore and IONWAY in Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023.
From left to right: Piotr Wojtyczka - President of the board of the Special Economic Zone, Pawel Kurtasz - President of the board of the Polish trade agency, Mathias Miedreich CEO Umicore, Achim Holzer - CFO IONWAY, Marcin Ociepa - Secretary of State (in the ministry of national defense), Thomas Jansseune - CEO IONWAY, Jörg Teichmann, PowerCo Chief Procurement Officer, Kordian Kolbiarz - Mayor of Nysa, Tomasz Witkowski - Deputy Governor of Opole region, in Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023.
From left to right: Tomasz Witkowski - Deputy Governor of Opole region, Kordian Kolbiarz - Mayor of Nysa, Piotr Wojtyczka - President of the board of the Special Economic Zone, Achim Holzer - CFO IONWAY, Thomas Jansseune - CEO IONWAY, Mathias Miedreich - CEO Umicore, Marcin Ociepa - Secretary of State (in the ministry of national defense), Jörg Teichmann - PowerCo Chief Procurement Officer, Pawel Kurtasz - President of the board of the Polish trade agency, in Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023.
From left to right: Marcin Ociepa - Secretary of State (in the ministry of national defense), Jörg Teichmann - PowerCo Chief Procurement Officer, Piotr Wojtyczka - President of the board of the Special Economic Zone, Pawel Kurtasz - President of the board of the Polish trade agency, Mathias Miedreich - CEO Umicore,Thomas Jansseune - CEO IONWAY, in Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023.
IONWAY flags and a Volkswagen ID BUZZ car.
From left to right: Thomas Jansseune - CEO IONWAY, Mathias Miedreich - CEO Umicore, Jörg Teichmann - PowerCo Chief Procurement Officer, Marcin Ociepa - Secretary of State (in the ministry of national defense), in Nysa, Poland, 7th October 2023.
From left to right: Thomas Schmall, Group Board Member for Technology at Volkswagen AG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PowerCo SE, Jörg Teichmann, PowerCo Chief Procurement Officer, Ralph Kiessling, EVP Energy & Surface Technologies at Umicore, Umicore CEO Mathias Miedreich.
IONWAY video presentation
Name and brand video presentation of IONWAY - a start-up with a head start backed by Umicore and Volkswagen's battery maker PowerCo.
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Thomas Jansseune, CEO of IONWAY
Video interview on what IONWAY stands for.
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Cathode active materials and its precursors
Animation describing IONWAY's activities and the key role that cathode active materials and its precursors play in the battery value chain.
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Umicore and PowerCo team up!
Video from September 2022 when Umicore and PowerCo first announced the founding of a joint venture for precursor and cathode material production in Europe.
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Ribbon cutting, Sept. 2022. From left to right Kordian Kolbiarz, Mayor of the city of Nysa; Ralph Kiessling, Umicore EVP Rechargeable Battery Materials; Mathias Miedreich, Umicore CEO; Rik Van Droogenbroeck, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium in Poland; Marcin Korolec, President of the Electric Vehicles Promotion Foundation in Poland
Ribbon cutting, Sept. 2022. From left to right Kordian Kolbiarz, Mayor of the city of Nysa; Ralph Kiessling, Umicore EVP Rechargeable Battery Materials; Mathias Miedreich, Umicore CEO; Rik Van Droogenbroeck, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium in Poland; Marcin Korolec, President of the Electric Vehicles Promotion Foundation in Poland