Teesside picked for “mega-scale” EV battery recycling plant
By Bradley Osborne - 28th December 2022
UK – A “mega-scale” recycling plant for end-of-life lithium-ion batteries from EVs is planned for Teesside, a built-up area in the northeast of England incorporating settlements such as Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees. Mining and refining company Altilium Metals Ltd of Tiptree, UK is committed to opening the country’s largest EV battery recycling facility by 2025.
Altilium Metals says it has secured over GBP3m in Government Innovation awards to construct the facility, which will employ the company’s proprietary recycling process for lithium-ion batteries. It is developing this process at two locations: at a technology centre it opened in Devon in July; and at a hydrometallurgical plant in Bulgaria, which is equipped to recycle smaller batteries (such as smartphone batteries), but which is now being retrofitted to start recycling electric vehicle batteries from next year. The company also holds stakes in mines and refineries for manganese, nickel and cobalt in Indonesia.
