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The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM) is developing an electrochemical process to recover critical raw materials from batteries. The focus is on lithium, cobalt, and...

The Munich-based battery recycler tozero has begun operations at an industrial demonstration plant for recovering critical raw materials from used batteries. Located at Chemical Park Gendorf, the facility was built...

Lithium carbonate recovered from used nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) batteries by Aachen-based “cylib” has been qualified as suitable for production of new electric vehicle batteries.

German company Accurec claims it has opened the first recycling plant in Europe capable of recovering lithium from all types of such batteries.

Finnish battery material producer Tracegrow has presented a solution for extracting battery-grade manganese based entirely on recycled raw materials sourced from within the EU.

US-based company Redwood Materials has started recovering various critical raw materials at its Berkeley County site in South Carolina.

With an eye on EU regulations and the planned battery passport, Ascend Elements from the US and GEM from China intend to collaborate on battery recycling in Europe.

Environmental services provider PreZero has acquired German “Re.Lion.Bat. Circular,” which operates Europeʼs largest recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries in Meppen.

Chinese battery material company CNGR has established a recycling joint venture with German specialist “revomet”, a subsidiary of CRONIMET Group.

Glencore Canada Corporation has completed the acquisition of a significant portion of Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.’s assets. The transaction was carried out as part of a credit bid and the assumption...

US battery recycler Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) has begun operating its lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Chester, South Carolina. The plant produces 5,000 tons of “advanced black mass” from production waste...