Renault Group: The Future Is NEUTRAL: The round economic system is entering into a brand new period!

Right now, Renault Group introduced the creation of a brand new entity totally devoted to the round economic system: The Future Is NEUTRAL. By bringing collectively the present industrial and technological experience and property of the group and its companions below a brand new model, The Future Is NEUTRAL is the first firm to function throughout the whole automotive round economic system worth chain, and is geared toward all gamers within the automotive world, past Renault Group.

In a context of power transition marked by the shortage of assets and inflation within the value of uncooked supplies, this entity will develop extra technological and industrial options due to the experience of its subsidiaries and its community of companions already working. It is going to allow the automotive trade to considerably enhance the proportion of recycled supplies from the automotive trade within the manufacturing of latest automobiles. Right now, a brand new automobile accommodates solely between 20 and 30% recycled supplies from all industries.

Within the brief time period, the entity goals at rising its present companies with a devoted enterprise mannequin and growing new alternatives with the automotive trade. With the target of the enterprise portfolio reaching a turnover of greater than €2,3 billion^[2] and an working margin of greater than 10%^[2] by 2030, The Future Is NEUTRAL goals to be the economic and European chief within the closed-loop automotive round economic system.

Lastly, in an effort to speed up its growth and strengthen its management in a fast-growing market, The Future Is NEUTRAL is opening up a minority of its capital to exterior traders with a view to co-financing investments of round €500 million till 2030.

Luca de Meo, CEO of Renault Group, mentioned: “Right now we’re taking one other step in our historic dedication to the round economic system. Our subsidiaries Gaia, Indra and Boone Comenor, in addition to the Refactory in Flins, have already demonstrated our potential to generate actions that create financial, social and environmental worth all through the automobile life cycle. Based mostly on this expertise and satisfied of the potential of those actions, we’re accelerating and creating The Future Is NEUTRAL, which brings collectively all our industrial and technological property, in addition to our community of strategic companions. Its mission: to develop its enterprise with bold strategic plans and new retailers by providing the automotive trade, confronted with the local weather problem, new regulatory necessities and rising strain on assets, closed-loop recycling options, i.e. from automotive to automotive . Our ambition is to deliver recycling into a brand new period and grow to be the European chief within the automotive round economic system.”

“From automotive to automotive”: the automotive as a uncooked materials

Yearly in Europe greater than 11 million automobiles, made up of round 85% recyclable supplies, attain the tip of their life. Nonetheless, this useful resource is under-exploited: new automobiles are made up of solely 20-30% of recycled materials, from all industries. Right now, the recyclable materials from end-of-life automobiles is generally recovered for different industrial purposes (metallurgy, development, and so on.). The target of The Future Is NEUTRAL is to take care of the worth of elements and supplies for so long as attainable and to allow the trade to realize a a lot increased charge of recycled automotive supplies within the manufacturing of latest automobiles.

Jean-Philippe Bahuaud, CEO of The Future Is NEUTRAL, explains: “Within the automotive sector, the primary under-exploited useful resource is the automotive itself, which is made up of greater than 85% of metals and plastics. The Future Is NEUTRAL brings collectively the experience to transform this potential into new development levers. This new entity goals to push the automotive trade in direction of useful resource neutrality, extracting from every automobile the biggest attainable quantity of fabric wanted to fabricate a brand new mannequin.” 

 The Future Is NEUTRAL’s experience

The corporate’s energy lies in its potential to mobilise a community of subsidiaries and companions to gather elements, supplies and batteries all through the automotive lifecycle, from scrap vehicles, manufacturing facility rejects and garages. Because of this ecosystem, The Future Is NEUTRAL is growing round economic system loops at every stage of a automobile’s life, from the manufacturing section to the use and finish of lifetime of automobiles.

In concrete phrases, The Future Is NEUTRAL depends on its subsidiary Gaia, whose battery restore, elements assortment and reuse, and recycling of supplies from end-of-life automobiles (ELVs) are primarily based in Flins.
Additionally situated on the coronary heart of the Flins Refactory, the renovation of mechanical and mechatronic elements, in addition to the long run automobile dismantling line, intention to produce these round flows. With its reference companion Suez, the entity additionally owns two corporations: Indra^[3], the chief in ELV remedy in France,
with greater than 370 authorized centres, and Boone Comenor^[4], an skilled within the recycling of metallic scraps from trade^[5].

Alongside industrial companions, The Future Is NEUTRAL goals at turning into a future European chief in closed-loop battery recycling, in keeping with rules, and engaging to different automotive producers by leveraging a world-class industrial course of when it comes to yield and purity to make sure the required stage of recycled content material of their batteries at one of the best value. To develop Europe’s first closed-loop battery recycling provide, the entity depends on Europe’s largest fleet of electrical automobiles^[6], high-content chemistry^[7] and capitalises on INDRA’s increasing community to help in battery assortment and GAIA’s experience in battery prognosis. Lastly, The Future Is NEUTRAL can even work with its battery producer companions, reminiscent of Verkor, to pool their end-of-life batteries with manufacturing waste.

To hold out its actions, The Future Is NEUTRAL depends on a variety of technical expertise, from superior engineering and chemistry to using information, which it locations on the coronary heart of its enterprise mannequin to optimise the financial and environmental efficiency of its options.

The Future Is NEUTRAL additionally presents the automotive trade a consultancy service, in addition to coaching devoted to the round economic system, with the help of the Round Mobility Business (ICM) campus primarily based in Flins, as a part of the group’s ReKnow University.

SOURCE: Renault Group