Battery maker LG Energy Solution Michigan and Toyota Tsusho America have established Green Metals Battery Innovations, a joint venture (JV) company focused on battery recycling that will build and operate a preprocessing plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The new plant will handle preprocessing operations to extract black mass, which contains raw metals such as nickel,… Read more »
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NREL uses nano-CT imaging to improve battery recycling
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are exploring an alternative method of direct recycling, which aims to preserve and refurbish battery components for a more efficient and cost-effective process. The researchers are using x-ray nanoscale computed tomography (nano-CT) for imaging of end-of-life batteries alongside NREL’s Microstructure Analysis Toolbox (MATBOX)… Read more »
BASF starts up black mass plant for battery recycling in Germany
German chemical company BASF has started the commercial operation of its battery black mass recycling plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. The facility has an annual processing capacity of up to 15,000 tons of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and production scrap. This is equivalent to 40,000 electric vehicle batteries per year. The black mass contains high amounts of… Read more »
Campine offers to buy Ecobat’s French battery recycling operations
US-based battery recycling Ecobat has received a binding offer from Belgian recycler Campine to acquire its battery recycling and specialty lead manufacturing operations in France, and has agreed to grant exclusivity to Campine. The purchase would include Ecobat’s facilities in Estrée-Saint-Denis, Bazoches and Pont-Sainte-Maxence, which would mark Ecobat’s exit from the French market other than… Read more »
Ecobat accelerates battery recycling, commissioning 3 new plants in 12 months
US battery recycling firm Ecobat has commissioned three lithium-ion battery recycling facilities within a year. Located in Hettstedt, Germany; Casa Grande, Arizona and Darlaston, England, the facilities are fully operational and capable of processing up to 10,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries annually. The company plans to scale the capacity up to 25,000 tons. The plants… Read more »
Porsche pilots high-voltage battery recycling
German automaker Porsche has launched a pilot project that aims to recover valuable raw materials from high-voltage batteries after their use in vehicles and to test a potential closed-loop raw material cycle. For the long term, the automaker plans to establish a recycling network for high-voltage batteries in collaboration with external partners. The pilot project… Read more »
Vianode and Fortum Battery Recycling to develop EV battery recycling value chain
Norwegian battery materials company Vianode and Finland-based Fortum Battery Recycling, which specializes in recycling valuable metals from EV batteries, have agreed to collaborate on developing a sustainable EV battery recycling value chain. Under the agreement, the two companies will work together to secure supplies of high-quality recycled graphite concentrate from Fortum’s hydrometallurgical plant in Harjavalta,… Read more »
Livium expands battery recycling with BYD Australia and Sell & Parker
Livium, previously known as Lithium Australia, has signed agreements with EV supplier BYD Australia and national metal recycling business Sell & Parker to expand battery recycling. Through its subsidiary Envirostream Australia, Livium has entered into a new expanded recycling agreement with BYD Australia to better address the growing requirements of the broader BYD business in… Read more »
Blue Whale Materials partners with Call2Recycle for Li-ion battery recycling in North America
Lithium-ion battery recycling firm Blue Whale Materials (BWM) has formed a strategic partnership with Call2Recycle, a battery stewardship organization in North America. BWM’s sorting and recycling facility in Bartlesville, Oklahoma will receive and process batteries brought into Call2Recycle’s national network, which collects spent batteries across the US. The facility is already operational for sorting and… Read more »
BMW and SK tes to expand high-voltage battery recycling
German carmaker BMW and South Korean technology firm SK tes plan to expand their closed-loop battery recycling system from Europe to the US-Mexico-Canada region in 2026. The recycling process recovers cobalt, nickel and lithium from used batteries to return them to the value chain to produce new batteries. BMW is directly involved in the process,… Read more »
