8.2.4 Hitachi Group

Course subject(s) Module 8. Pioneers

Recycling REEs in Hard Disk Drives: The case of Hitachi Group

Hitachi Group is a Japanese multinational company active in several sectors ranging from IT and automotive to electronics. In recent years they have managed to develop an industrial process that allows them to efficiently recycle certain rare earth elements from hard disk drives. To find out how this process works and what their exact strategy is to become more circular, read the case description below.

The case of Hitachi Group

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