Today Alfred H Knight, the inspection and accreditation company, announced it has joined the MaDiTraCe (Material and Digital Traceability for the Certification of Critical Raw Materials) project. Last year the EU awarded €11 million in Horizon funding to improve the transparency in sourcing critical raw materials throughout their supply chain. The output will be a digital product passport but the initiative also encompasses solutions relating to the materials.
The consortium which commenced in January includes 14 partners from 7 countries, led by BRGM (French Geological Survey) and includes EU-founded EIT Raw Materials and Spherity, a blockchain identity startup.
Many of these rare materials such as cobalt, lithium, natural graphite and rare earth elements are used in the development of rechargeable batteries and magnets. Alfred H Knight is helping the development of artificial fingerprinting technologies to be used in material passports.
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