Altilium Launches LFP Battery Recycling in the UK

Altilium has started recycling lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries which come from an undisclosed global manufacturer of electric vehicles and energy storage systems. With this move, the United Kingdom-based company is expanding its recycling offering, which has so far focused on nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) batteries.

Focus on lucrative lithium and graphite

Compared to NMC batteries, LFP batteries contain less valuable raw materials, making recycling less economically attractive. Altilium uses its proprietary EcoCathode recycling technology, which the company claims recovers more than 97 percent of the batteriesʼ lithium and 99 percent of their graphite. Both materials can then be reused in the production of new batteries. The focus is on lithium recovery, as iron and phosphate have a lower market value.

One of the largest recycling centers in Europe

Altilium already recycles NMC batteries from two UK car manufacturers and production waste from gigafactories. The recently opened plant in Plymouth can process 300 kilograms of black mass per day – roughly the equivalent of an electric vehicle battery. A planned facility in Teesside in the northeast of England will be one of the largest recycling centers in Europe, with the capacity to process used batteries from more than 150,000 vehicles per year. It will also process a range of battery types, including LFP.

Source:
https://altilium.tech/2025/02/03/8196/

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