AE Elemental, a joint venture of U.S.-based Ascend Elements and Poland-based Elemental Strategic Metals, recently celebrated the grand opening of its first commercial-scale EV battery recycling facility. Located in Zawiercie, Poland, the companies say the newly constructed facility can process 12,000 metric tons of used Li-ion batteries each year – or approximately 28,000 EV battery packs annually.
In the European Union (EU), new batteries will be required to contain a minimum amount of recycled content by 2030. Lithium-ion battery recycling also keeps hazardous battery materials out of landfills while minimizing the environmental impacts associated with nickel, cobalt and lithium mining, the companies say.
“We have come significantly closer to becoming a global leader in the market of recycling materials necessary to produce EV batteries,” said Michał Zygmunt, CEO of Elemental Strategic Metals. “As…
