Stellantis and Galloo unite to recycle aluminium parts from end-of-life vehicles

Stellantis, the proprietary brand for Peugeot, Citroen and Vauxhall, has partnered with metal recycling firm Galloo to improve its circular economy and achieve its net zero targets by 2038. The joint venture involves purchasing and refurbishing aluminium parts from end-of-life vehicles that have been involved in crashes.

The initiative is set to launch in France, Belgium and Luxembourg later this year and will expand to the UK in the future. The programme will collect end-of-life vehicles through authorised treatment facilities to recover parts for "reuse, remanufacture and recycling."

The senior vice president for a global circular economy, Stellantis, Alison Jones, narrated: "Making it easy for customers to recycle their end-of-life vehicles is a crucial element to reduce the environmental impact of our vehicles."

This process will reduce Stellantis's carbon footprint and lower its reliance on raw materials, including those that are rare or subject to international trading issues.

Alison Jones denoted: "Returning parts and materials to the value chain preserves scarce resources. Working with Galloo in partnership through their shredding treatment and post-treatment to be able to access that raw material is critical to us to be able to increase the [recycled] material up to 40 per cent in new vehicles by 2030 onwards."

 "There is a value chain. If we can be in that value chain, it is of value to Stellantis. It also gives us access to ensure if materials become scarce, we are in that value chain; steel, aluminium, also copper, and other rare materials in batteries. We need to be in that value chain to ensure we can source that scarce material," she added.

The recycling program aims to generate more than €2 billion in 2030 and contribute to a 10-fold increase in aluminium recycling revenues and a four-fold boost in aluminium parts revenues by 2030, as per Stellantis's Dare Forward 2030 plan.

Jones elaborated: "A third reason is there is legislation coming around the responsibility of an OEM to take back vehicles. In terms of the increased responsibility to offer that service – to take it back – in a more proactive way. The partnership with Galloo enables us to do that both through software and physical infrastructure that they have and to enable us to build on the other objectives we have."

British customers can already purchase reused and refurbished aluminium components through Stellantis's dealer network, and any future recycling service will be in addition to this existing protocol. There is no timeline for expanding the initiative to other European countries as yet, as Jones clarified, but the brand is expecting a bloom in business with such recycling initiatives.