Gavin Hosts CSIRO's Thuy Huynh at Birmingham Critical Materials Centre

Gavin welcomed Thuy Huynh of Australia's CSIRO to the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials at the University of Birmingham to tour facilities and discuss collaboration on critical materials.

The visit took in a range of research on enhancing critical materials recovery. It included the Centre's rare earth magnet recycling facilities, automated disassembly work on the RESCu-M2 project in the School of Engineering, and materials processing and battery recycling research in the School of Metallurgy and Materials. Battery recycling on the TReFCo project and related work in the School of Chemistry was also presented. The group then visited Tyseley Energy Park to see how the research is being scaled and commercialised.

Gavin thanked Adam Best for the introductions and noted an ongoing dialogue with CSIRO about UK-Australia collaboration on critical materials, following an earlier visit he made to CSIRO in Clayton with Paul Anderson.