– Goal of reaching the same closed-loop recycling rates as lead
Ecobat is leveraging its long experience with handling lead batteries to leap into the lithium-ion battery market. The company nixed pilot plants and has started building full facilities. One, in Germany, is already online. Another in Casa Grande, Ariz. is being commissioned. The third facility, in the U.K., will come online soon. The Arizona facility has a capacity of 10,000 tons of recycled material per year, with the ability to expand capacity. In addition to collection, dismantling, and diagnostics, the facilities will offer crushing and sorting services (Stage 1-3), which enables recycling efficiency of critical materials in lithium batteries and generate black mass for subsequent hydromet processing (Stage 4). Ecobat is the only European provider of fully integrated Stage 1-3 lithium battery recycling services and management services for Stage 4.
Lessons learned managing lead
Ecobat Solutions prides itself on operating safe and environmentally responsible facilities, leveraging our experience in metals recycling that offers value-added, smart engineering options for battery packs, ancillary elements, modules, and cells, potentially extending each component’s material life and saving the resource cost of manufacturing more elements from scratch. Ecobat employees utilize best-in-class personal protective equipment and participate in regular monitoring programs to prevent exposure to harmful metals. Ecobat works hand-in-hand with the regulatory community to develop permits that are protective of the environment and the communities where we operate.
Driving lithium-ion and battery technologies into the future
Ecobat Solutions has been highly active in the development of advanced technologies and processes for recycling and resource recovery for Lithium-ion and other battery chemistries. Ecobat’s technology can handle a wide range of form factors and is chemistry agnostic, allowing the facilities to accept everything from portable small format batteries such as tool batteries, laptop batteries and cell phone batteries to large formats such as EV batteries. Investment in state-of-the-art high- and low-voltage equipment enables EV battery, module, and cell testing and diagnostics to be conducted to the most exacting industry standards, including LV123 as used by Audi, Mercedes Benz and BMW.
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