Tag: The Royal Mint

The King’s Trust Joins The Royal Mint’s 2026 Coin Set

Stuart Mitchell

The King’s Trust is honoured to feature among the eight coins in The Royal Mint’s 2026 annual coin set, marking its 50th anniversary. This commemorative 50p coin, designed by Jessica Gregorio, a graphic designer and former Trust beneficiary, celebrates the charity’s five decades of empowering young people across the UK. A design that tells a story: The King’s Trust 50th anniversary coin When His Majesty King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, founded The King’s Trust in 1976 using his Navy severance pay of £7,400, he set in motion a…

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Sky Medical Technology partners with the Royal Mint to recycle end-of-life electronics – supporting UK circular economy

Stuart Mitchell

Sky Medical Technology Ltd, the UK-based parent company of Firstkind Ltd and manufacturer of the innovative geko® device, has announced a landmark partnership with The Royal Mint to recycle end-of-life electronic components, furthering its commitment to sustainability and supporting the UK’s circular economy.   As part of the collaboration, Sky Medical Technology supplies redundant printed circuit boards (PCBs) from its geko and firefly® device production lines—containing traces of gold, silver, copper and other valuable metals—to The Royal Mint’s pioneering South Wales facility. Using its patented, world-first ambient-temperature chemistry, developed by…

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New Factory Extracting Gold from E-Waste Unveiled by The Royal Mint

Stuart Mitchell

A pioneering new factory that provides a more sustainable source of gold and reduces reliance on mining has been unveiled by The Royal Mint. Located at its site in south Wales, the 3,700 square metre facility uses world-first patented chemistry from Canadian clean tech company Excir, extracting gold from printed circuit boards (PCBs) found in everyday items, such as TVs, laptops and mobile phones, in minutes. Excir’s chemistry works at room temperature, creating a more energy efficient and cost-effective method of gold recovery. The factory has scaled the innovative technology…

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The Royal Mint achieves validation of its net zero goals by the Science Based Target initiative

Stuart Mitchell

As part of its commitment to sustainability, The Royal Mint has announced its science-based net zero targets have been officially validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). SBTi is the global body enabling businesses to set ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets in line with the latest climate science, to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Britain’s oldest company is transforming for the future and has committed to reaching net zero GHG emissions by 2050 across its own operations and within its supply chain, with more near…

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The Royal Mint launches local energy centre as part of its commitment to sustainability

Stuart Mitchell

As part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability, The Royal Mint has launched its local energy centre, which helps power its 38-acre manufacturing site in Llantrisant with greener electricity. After launching its daffodil-inspired wind-turbine in 2018, working with its energy partner, Infinite Renewables, the UK’s oldest company has welcomed a new solar farm, an additional wind-turbine, a combined heat and power plant and battery storage, to form The Royal Mint’s Local Energy Centre. Working towards its goal to become Net Zero by 2050, The Royal Mint is aiming to generate…

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