{"id":14605,"date":"2026-04-30T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/14605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:27:11","slug":"rosi-to-build-pv-module-recycling-plant-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/14605\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSI to build PV module recycling plant in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company announced a \u20ac20 million (US$23.5 million) investment to support the new facility, led by InnoEnergy, CMA CGM, the European Innovation Council (EIC) and Spanish family office G3T.<\/p>\n<p>President and co-founder of ROSI, Yun Luo, said the financing was an \u201cimportant milestone\u201d for the company. \u201cIt gives us the means to accelerate our industrial deployment, strengthen our operational execution, and prepare for a new phase of growth in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ambition is to build a European-scale industrial platform for circular management and the production of strategic raw materials, transforming end-of-life solar panels into a reliable source of high-purity materials for the European industries of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new facility builds on ROSI\u2019s existing ROSI Alpes plant in France. Along with the announcement of the new facility and financing, the company has appointed a new director in France, Thierry Galvez, who entered the role on 1 April.<\/p>\n<p>ROSI claimed that the expansion of its operations to Spain enables \u201cscalable circular model for photovoltaic recycling in Europe\u201d. Gianmarco Panone, investment manager at InnoEnergy, said ROSI is \u201cone of the most emblematic photovoltaic assets in our portfolio\u201d due to its \u201cdifferentiated technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On its website, ROSI claims that its technology can \u201cproperly separate\u201d the materials and layers in a PV module, allowing them to be recovered individually, and therefore more purely. It also says it has technology to recycle kerf, the wasted silicon powder produced when cutting silicon wafers.<\/p>\n<p>There are other companies around the world offering solar recycling, such as PV Cycle and Solar Materials in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/solarcycle-prologis-sign-solar-pv-module-recycling-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Solarcycle<\/a> has established a dedicated recycling operation alongside plans for a factory producing new solar glass from recycled products. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/a-billion-dollar-industry-inside-the-growing-solar-panel-recycling-sector-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Comstock Inc<\/a>. is also pursuing solar recycling in Nevada. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/australias-unsw-launches-solar-recycling-hub-as-pv-waste-set-to-hit-100000-tonnes-annually-by-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Australia has also launched PV recycling operations<\/a> to deal with panels at the end of their lives. <\/p>\n<p>However, a study published last month found that the European solar sector needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-tech.org\/urgent-reform-of-eu-pv-recycling-needed-to-tackle-growing-waste-volume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201curgent\u201d reform of its solar PV recycling<\/a>, as the capacity to deal with disused modules lags significantly behind projected PV deployment rates. The study found that even though solar modules are included under the EU\u2019s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, implementation is patchy across member states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company announced a \u20ac20 million (US$23.5 million) investment to support the new facility, led by InnoEnergy, CMA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8593,8594,8595,8596,7908,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-14605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-module-recycling","9":"tag-pv-modules","10":"tag-recycling","11":"tag-rosi","12":"tag-solar-pv","13":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}