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  • Employee operating a KION forklift in India.

    Li-Cycle next recycling facility in France

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Following a commitment for a US$375 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy and a visit from world leaders to its recycling facilities in Canada, the momentum keeps up for Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. with a newly signed definitive agreement with KION Group for the development of a lithium-ion battery recycling plant in France. As the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, Li-Cycle has been advancing its spoke-and-hub system to recover lithium, nickel,...

  • Li-Cycle employee sorting through power tool battery packs for recycling.

    Li-Cycle on deck for a $375M DOE loan

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 3, 2024

    Keeping with its goal to support companies' endeavoring to establish a domestic battery materials supply chain for electric vehicles and associated technologies that will require the same minerals and metals, the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program has conditionally committed to loaning Li-Cycle $375 million to expand its recycling efforts in the United States. As an industry leader in lithium-ion battery recovery and the...

  • Refined powders from recycled lithium-batteries from Redwood Materials.

    Toyota pairs with Redwood for EV batteries

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 16, 2023

    As part of its commitment to reduce its environmental footprint and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, Toyota Motor North America is collaborating with Redwood Materials Inc. to create a sustainable, closed-loop battery ecosystem for its electrified powertrains. Toward this goal, Toyota and Redwood will explore a series of end-of-life battery solutions for Toyota's proposed battery ecosystem. The mission focuses not only on the collection, testing, and recycling of batteries...

  • Li-Cycle CEO Ajay Kocchar, Justin Trudeau, Ursula von der Leyen, Tim Johnston.

    Trudeau, von der Leyen visit Li-Cycle

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Aug 16, 2023

    Leaders tour Ontario spoke facility to witness ongoing battery recycling efforts. Shortly after receiving approval for a US$375 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program, Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. was visited by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Joined by Li-Cycle co-founders Ajay Kochhar and Tim Johnston, the group observed lithium-ion batteries being...

  • Aluminum microstructure with multicolored grains looks like stained glass.

    National lab reshapes recycled aluminum

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated May 9, 2023

    In a renewable technology breakthrough, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in collaboration with leading mobility technology company Magna, has unveiled a process that reshapes aluminum from automotive scrap and trimmings into material for new vehicle parts. This new manufacturing process, dubbed Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE), reportedly reduces more than 50% of the energy consumed while simultaneously reducing more than 90% of...

  • Daisy is Apple's disassembly robot at the Material Recovery Lab in Texas.

    Apple to use 100% recycled cobalt by 2025

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 26, 2023

    Tech giant is also boosting recycled rare earths, gold, and tin going into Apple products. As a technology giant at the vanguard of the green transition, Apple Inc. is accelerating its work to expand recycled materials going into its famed devices, which includes a new 2025 target to use 100% recycled cobalt in all Apple-designed batteries. Last year, the company significantly expanded its use of key recycled metals, sourcing two-thirds of all aluminum, nearly three-quarters...

  • Bags of black mass that Li-Cycle has produced at its Hub facilities.

    Sen. Schumer visits NY Li-Cycle facility

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 16, 2023

    Recycling hub will offer supply of critical battery materials in US After advocating for Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc. to develop its zinc-air energy storage systems manufacturing plant in New York, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, paid a visit to Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.'s Rochester lithium-ion battery recycling facility in his home state. You can read about Sen. Schumer and Zinc8 at NY Sen. Schumer calls Zinc8 with an offer in the July 11, 2022, edition of...

  • CEO Nishchay Chadha and CTO Vipin Tyagi, cofounders of Ace Green Recycling.

    Glencore partners with US recycler ACE

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 16, 2023

    Glencore plc, one of the world's largest natural resources companies, has entered into a long-term supply agreement to purchase 100% of the products to be produced by battery recycler ACE Green Recycling. "Our partnership with ACE furthers our objective of creating a leading, global circularity platform for battery metals," said Kunal Sinha, head of recycling at Glencore. Intended to intake recycled lead and key battery metals from recycled lithium-ion batteries, this 15-year...

  • President Biden next to a Corvette Z06 showcased a the revived Detroit car show.

    Biden's new surge of EV recycling funding

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 29, 2022

    Furthering its climate goals and hoping to continue strengthening the nation's battery supply chain, the Biden administration has allotted $74 million to advance technologies and processes for the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle batteries. The number of EVs on the road since Biden moved into the Oval Office has tripled and the demand for critical battery minerals, such as lithium and graphite, is projected to increase by as much as 4,000% in the coming decades....

  • Rows of unblemished Panasonic double AA batteries.

    Redwood materials for Panasonic US plant

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 15, 2022

    Cathode supply deal follows seal of approval from Argonne National Laboratory. Helping to offset the imbalance of demand to resources, battery recycler Redwood Materials Inc. will supply Panasonic cathode material for lithium-ion battery cell production at the electronic powerhouse's new Kansas plant, which is slated to begin production in 2025, marking the first time this material will be produced in North America at gigafactory scale. It is projected that in the next...

  • An old VW minivan parked inside a tunnel of a Redwood tree.

    VW plants seed for Redwood EV recycling

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 19, 2022

    Redwood Materials Inc. has partnered with yet another auto giant, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., to create a new circular supply chain for recycled Volkswagen and Audi electric vehicle batteries in the United States. After announcing a partnership with Toyota Motor North America in late June, it was not long before Volkswagen – which has already been taking steps to prepare for its end-of-life EV batteries for some time now – sought the California battery recycler to loc...

  • Inside of the RecycLiCo demonstration plant the recycles lithium-ion batteries.

    LCA confirms RecycLiCo CO2 advantages

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 19, 2022

    After several months of waiting, RecycLiCo Battery Materials (previously American Manganese) has announced the results of a life cycle assessment for its lithium-ion battery recycling-upcycling RecycLiCo process. Conducted by London-based and globally recognized sustainability consultancy Minviro Ltd., the life cycle assessment is a standardized, scientific method for quantifying the direct and embodied environmental impacts associated with the RecycLiCo process. By...

  • Two bloated, end-of-life lithium-ion cell phone batteries.

    DOE funding toward X-BATT recycling tech

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 12, 2022

    Semplastics, parent company of X-MAT and X-BATT, was awarded over $200,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop novel high-capacity composite anodes for the upcycling of spent graphite from end-of-life-lithium batteries. This funding comes just a week after Semplastics announced that it had received a U.S. patent for electrode fabrication technology that dramatically increases the storage capacity of graphite recovered from recycled batteries. "Battery recycling is the...

  • Redwood Materials Tesla co-founder JB Straubel EV battery recycling EU US mining

    The American giant of battery recycling

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 12, 2022

    Redwood Materials Inc., an American battery recycling company that has been quietly prepping for an energy transition before it became a well-circulated buzzword, has already begun its own transition to the European market. Founded in 2017 by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, this forward-thinking recycling company has rapidly climbed to a valuation of $3.8 billion as of September 2021. In a recent interview, Associated Press journalist Tom Krishner asked Straubel whether Redwood...

  • EnviroLeach Technologies FDA e-waste recycling critical minerals palladium

    Recycling tin and PGMs with EnviroLeach

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    From research into a non-invasive mining technique to extract gold from the ground without mining to recycling electronic waste and old car parts, EnviroLeach Technologies Inc. has developed safe and environmentally friendly formulas to recover precious and critical metals. Originally developed as an alternative to cyanide at gold mines, EnviroLeach developed a formula made up of five ingredients that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for human consumption...

  • American Manganese RecycLiCo lithium-ion battery recycling cathode material

    Upcycling old cathodes for new batteries

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    To steer away from using expensive and oft controversial cobalt, electric vehicle and lithium-ion battery manufacturers have brewed up new recipes with higher percentages of more abundant nickel and manganese for their newer generation cells. "Modern lithium-ion battery cathode chemistries have rapidly evolved to having less cobalt and more nickel or manganese materials, which does not reflect the cathode chemistries of older batteries approaching their end-of-life," said...

  • GM Ultium battery recycling mega-factory Li-Cycle Lordstown Ohio

    Li-Cycle to recycle GM Ultium batteries

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Jul 10, 2022

    While it is still several years before any significant quantities of the Ultium batteries going into the next generation of General Motors electric vehicles will reach the end of their lifecycle, the automaker is already establishing lithium-ion battery recycling capabilities at its Ultium battery cell manufacturing mega-factory in Lordstown, Ohio. To establish this capacity, Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture between GM and LG Energy Solution, has entered into a multi-year con...

  • BMW Coldplay renewable energy second-life battery i4 iX Higher Power song

    BMW batteries electrify Coldplay concerts

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Oct 26, 2021

    Luxury vehicle company BMW Group has turned renewable energy up to 11 by teaming up with legendary band Coldplay as part of their upcoming Music of the Spheres World Tour. This will be the world's first-ever mobile, rechargeable show, powered by the two partners' shared sustainability vision. Following the successful hit "Higher Power" synced in the BMW i4/iX commercial and the British band's performance in the virtual world of BMW JOYTOPIA at the IAA Mobility in Munich, BMW...