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A Cirba Solutions battery recycling and materials recovery facility in Lancaster, Ohio, will create battery-grade metal sulfates and lithium carbonate once it’s up and running. These will then become the raw materials for cathode active materials (pCAM) and cathode active materials (CAM) for batteries.
The expansion of the site has cost more than $400 million, including more than $82 million from the US DOE thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. In addition to producing enough battery-grade salts to power more than 250,000 EV batteries a year, the expansion will provide over 100 new generational jobs.
As evidence of the positive effects this spending is having on local communities, the company has now surpassed 25% of its hiring target in Lancaster, Ohio.
“Increasing lithium-ion battery processing capacity allows the U.S. to…
