Huelva, May 16, 2025. Huelva-based company Atlantic Copper participated in the Raw Materials Summit 2025, the European forum of reference in the field of mineral resources. The summit addressed the industry’s main challenges: ensuring a safe, sustainable and competitive supply of strategic raw materials. Atlantic Copper is a benchmark in the recycling of raw materials, especially copper, which is essential for implementing the energy and digital transitions. As such, the company participated in two round tables on Circular Economy and the Clean Industrial Deal, where the discussion was focused on the challenges and needs ahead for achieving a growing and competitive European raw materials industry.

Organized in Brussels by EIT RawMaterials, the Summit brought together more than a thousand representatives of public institutions, companies, investors and research centers on an international scale. Under the slogan ‘Race to 2030’, the event focused on how to strengthen the raw materials supply chain to drive Europe’s energy and digital transition, in line with the Green Deal and the new Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA).

Macarena Gutiérrez, CEO of Atlantic Copper, took part in the round table ‘CRMA Recycling Target: On Track or at Risk?’ where she highlighted recycling as a fundamental pillar for achieving the objectives set by the European Union. Gutiérrez stressed the importance of developing innovative technologies that allow the reuse of metals essential for the energy transition, such as the CirCular project, declared a Strategic Project by the European Commission. This initiative focuses on recovering copper, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, tin and nickel from waste electronic and electrical devices. On the other hand, she said that European industry: “needs less bureaucratic burden in order to gain competitiveness vis-à-vis other large economies” and emphasized that “we need to set concrete objectives and action plans to achieve this.”

Javier Targhetta, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atlantic Copper, spoke at the round table ‘Securing Europe’s Metals Future: Clean Industrial Deal, Metals Action Plan, Circular Economy Act’, organized by the International Copper Association. As part of his participation, Targhetta advocated the need for a European industrial policy that strengthens the metals value chain by addressing industry’s access to competitive energy, in which gas prices and CO2 do not determine the marginal prices, making energy prices a limiting factor in industrial competitiveness. With regard to recycling, he said: “We need to have a uniform and competitive regulation in Europe, which establishes the free movement of electronic scrap within the Union, avoiding today’s complicated, slow bureaucracy. It is also essential to establish mechanisms to foment this electronic scrap remaining in Europe, and thus be able to promote the objectives set in terms of percentages in recycling.”

Thus, Atlantic Copper confirmed its commitment to European policies but stressed the need to develop a concrete plan, with targets, actions and owners. This will allow us to achieve the end goal of attaining competitive, innovative and resilient industrial growth that makes it possible to reposition the continent in the face of changes in the international geopolitical situation, reducing its external dependence and guaranteeing a sustainable supply of critical raw materials.