(CercleFinance.com) – Eramet ensures that its lithium-ion battery recycling project has taken “a new key step towards its industrialization in France” with the closed-loop recycling of all the valuable metals contained in lithium-ion batteries. ion with very high yields, adapted to the requirements of future European regulations.
At the start of 2022, the group decided to launch industrialization studies for an integrated recycling solution, from the dismantling of batteries to the production of nickel, cobalt and lithium salts suitable for the manufacture of new batteries.
In cooperation with Suez, Eramet plans to build in France, by 2024, a lithium-ion battery recycling plant for the production of black mass, a concentrate of metals (nickel, cobalt, manganese, lithium, graphite) adapted to the stages hydro-metallurgical refining.