In an interview with Fastmarkets on Friday April 19, Stephen Hayward, vice president of operations at Green Li-ion, said that the new facility in Atoka, Oklahoma, has a daily black mass processing capacity of about two tonnes – equivalent to about 730 tonnes of black mass per year – and can produce battery-grade precursor cathode active material (pCAM) in about 12 hours, with a 95% or higher recovery rate. According to Hayward, the resulting output tonnage is dependent on the feedstock.
The facility is now “fully commissioned,” with final testing expected to be completed in the near future. Hayward said that it was estimated that the facility would “be producing battery-grade pCAM in the new few weeks.”
“There’s two phases of the recycling space when you get to your lithium end-of-life batteries,” Hayward said. “Phase one is the mechanical process, your shredding, and we don’t see a shortage…
