Li-Cycle to put US$175m into US recycling hub | Automotive Industry News

Li-Cycle says it will make investments additional than US$175m in its initially industrial lithium-ion battery recycling Hub at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York.

The Hub is a moist chemistry/hydrometallurgical facility, which will refine battery-quality supplies from ‘black mass’ generated from pre-processing spent lithium-ion batteries and will have the capacity of processing substance from an equal of 60,000 metric tonnes of spent lithium-ion batteries, around equating to one hundred twenty,000 electrical motor vehicle battery packs.

This will come in addition to its Spoke facility, set to be operational at the park by late 2020, which will develop ‘black mass’ from spent lithium-ion batteries.

The moment fully operational, the Hub will be a significant producer of battery-quality supplies in North The us, specially cobalt, nickel and lithium. This will be the only supply of battery quality lithium carbonate in North The us says Li-Cycle and the initially industrial facility globally to develop battery quality lithium chemicals from spent lithium-ion batteries.

The Hub refines these crucial supplies from anode and cathode energetic supplies (‘black mass’) while attaining optimal economics and minimising environmental effect.

Together, the Hub and Spoke services minimise the overall environmental footprint of the end-to-end resource recovery course of action and empower a considerably lessened GHG emission depth when in comparison to most important creation of the similar supplies.

“We are psyched to be equipped to announce Rochester as the spot of Li-Cycle’s Hub refinery,” said Li-Cycle executive chairman and co-founder, Tim Johnston.

“This facility will empower sustainable shut loop creation of crucial supplies for the battery market, this sort of as cobalt, nickel and lithium, appropriate below in North The us, supporting the advancement of electrical cars and other sustainable electricity applications.”

Li-Cycle has beforehand operate a demonstration Hub in Kingston, Ontario to decide crucial design and style requirements for the construct out of this initially Commercial Hub. The business picked EBP as the site for the facility owing to the nature of infrastructure accessible, which include utilities, logistics and other physical infrastructure. Development of the Hub facility is due to commence in 2021 and is planned to be fully operational in 2022.

Since its inception the business has designed and validated Li-Cycle’s Hub-and-Spoke systems sustainable processes that allow for for the recovery of all crucial supplies found in lithium-ion batteries, capable of producing battery-quality supplies this sort of as cobalt, lithium and nickel at purities necessary for battery manufacturing.

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