ROSI

Their core work

ROSI is a French technology SME specializing in the recovery and recycling of high-value materials — primarily silicon, graphite, and silica — from end-of-life photovoltaic panels and manufacturing waste streams. Their core work involves developing industrial-scale processes to extract and purify these critical raw materials so they can re-enter the supply chain, reducing dependence on virgin material extraction. They operate at the intersection of circular economy and the solar energy industry, addressing a growing challenge: what happens to millions of PV panels that reach end-of-life. In EU projects they have played both the role of technology developer leading their own SME project and a specialist partner inside a larger industrial consortium.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their earliest project (Ramp-PV, 2020), ROSI positioned themselves within the broad Green Deal narrative — circular economy, raw materials, recycling, green recovery — a framing suited to an SME making the case for its technology concept. By 2021, when they joined ICARUS, the language became sharply technical and process-specific: silica waste streams from photovoltaic industries, graphite, secondary raw material refining routes. This shift signals a company that has moved from proving a concept to executing at industrial scale within a larger consortium. The trajectory points toward ROSI becoming a specialist process technology provider for PV-sector waste streams rather than a generalist recycling firm.

ROSI is moving deeper into industrial-scale, material-specific processing — likely positioning to serve both the PV recycling market and, via graphite, the emerging battery materials supply chain.

How they like to work

ROSI has demonstrated the ability to lead projects independently — they coordinated Ramp-PV under the SME Instrument Phase 2, which requires a company to carry the full technical and management responsibility. They also participate as a specialist partner in large Innovation Actions like ICARUS, where broader consortia handle complementary steps. With 21 unique partners across just 2 projects, their network is notably diverse for their size, suggesting they actively seek varied collaborators rather than recycling the same partners.

ROSI has built a network of 21 unique consortium partners across 8 countries in only 2 projects, indicating strong connectivity relative to their project volume. Their participation in both a solo-led SME project and a large multi-partner Innovation Action means they have experience navigating both tight and complex consortium structures.

What sets them apart

ROSI occupies a rare niche: an SME that has validated its technology through both an independently led EU grant and participation in a major industrial consortium, all focused on the same material system — silicon from PV waste. Most recycling companies treat PV panels as a mixed-waste problem; ROSI's specialization in silicon and graphite recovery suggests proprietary process knowledge at the material level, not just logistics. For a consortium needing a credible, EU-funded process technology partner for PV end-of-life or critical raw material recovery, they are one of very few SMEs with this specific track record.

Highlights from their portfolio

• Ramp-PV
  ROSI led this project as sole coordinator under the competitive SME Instrument Phase 2, demonstrating that their technology concept was strong enough to win a standalone EU grant without a supporting consortium.
• ICARUS
  With EUR 1,128,400 in EC funding and a 2021–2025 timeline, this is ROSI's largest and most technically advanced project, placing them inside an industrial-scale consortium targeting eco-efficient refining of silicon and graphite from secondary sources.