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Half Year Results 2025
Umicore Group key highlights for the first half of 2025
Umicore announed Laurent Gautier’s appointment as Senior Vice President (SVP) R&D Battery Cathode Materials, effective August 1st.
From Lab to Road
BMW Group has begun road-testing a BMW i7 equipped with large-format solid-state battery (SSB) cells developed by Solid Power, Inc.. These cells feature Umicore’s proprietary cathode active materials (CAM), developed under a joint development…
Umicore and Korea’s Chungnam Province have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as part of Umicore’s earlier announced plans to expand the production capacity of its battery materials plant in Cheonan and the Province’s aim to strengthen the…
Following a strong start in Q1 2025, performance continued to be very solid throughout the first half of the year.
Umicore performed strongly in the first quarter of the year, demonstrating the quality of its foundation businesses as well as the impact of ongoing efficiency improvements across the Group, which are well on track.
Today at its Capital Markets Day, Umicore CEO Bart Sap and the Executive Leadership Team will present the key outcomes of the Battery Materials strategy review and Umicore’s roadmap to 2028.
Umicore Battery Materials Korea, a global circular materials technology company, participated in InterBattery 2025, Korea’s largest battery industry exhibition, held at COEX in Seoul from March 5 to 7.
Full Year Results 2024
In 2024, a number of headwinds impacted Umicore’s overall performance and strategy execution. In light of slower-than-expected growth in demand for electric vehicles and declining metal prices, Umicore has been taking steps to reassess its growth…
Umicore announces the appointment of Karena Cancilleri as Executive Vice President of its Battery Materials Business Group and member of the Management Board, starting on April 1st 2025.
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