Secondary lead producer Hakurnas has agreed to install ACE Green’s recycling technology at its plant in Ashdod in Israel to improve its environmental performance. After the initial breaking of lead battery scrap, the conventional second step to recover the lead is smelting via a furnace that operates at high temperatures and produces significant GHG emissions […]
Commodity trader and mining company Glencore intends to partner two companies to tackle what it describes as one of the biggest medium- to long-term challenges in the battery sector: recycling lithium-ion batteries through establishment of a purpose-built plant. The Switzerland-based group’s partners in Spain and Portugal will be industrial and commercial waste management company FCC […]
South Korean conglomerate Posco says it has finished building a used, secondary battery recycling plant in Brzeg Dolny, 30 km northwest of Poland’s capital Warsaw. The Poland Legnica Sourcing Center has capacity to process 7,000 t/y of scrap material and used batteries and will eventually produce black mass containing nickel, lithium, cobalt and manganese. The […]