The concept of safety and sustainability by design has been examined within the EU borders for quite some time now. Five documentations have been published already, with the proposed approaches for the SSbD framework. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of […]
Palladium is a chemical element and along with platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium they have similar chemical properties and form the platinum group metals (PGMs). Palladium, however, has the lowest melting point and is the least dense of the […]
The first physical consortium meeting of the FreeMe project is taking place on the 5th and 6th of October 2022, in Milan, Italy. Partners will discuss the progress they made during the first 5 months of the project and the […]
The FreeMe project utilizes technologies based on REACH compliant chemicals. In order to fully understand this categorization, it is important to define what REACH compliant chemicals means. Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) is a European Regulation (EC […]
Palladium (Pd) is a Critical Raw Material mainly used by the automotive industry. Russia is the world’s leading Pd exporter, accounting for 40% of all mined production, followed by South Africa. Global sanctions on Russia threaten to disrupt the Pd […]
