Once an Electric Vehicle battery reaches the end of its useful life, the battery pack can be collected, dismantled, and shredded. The shredded material is then processed to produce so-called “black mass”, which consists of high amounts of lithium, manganese, cobalt, and nickel metals. This black mass is the feedstock to the Altilium Metals recycling [...]

The University of Plymouth is a leading UK University and is ranked among world’s top 25 in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. It has verified independently that the Altiltech process to recycle end-of-life lithium-ion batteries is suitable for commercial use and can recover greater than 95% of valuable cathode metals. The Altilitech recycling process [...]

Altilium Metals holds a multiyear concession agreement to extract minerals from Medet tailings and a Solvent Extraction-Electro Winning Plant (SX-EW) in the Pirdop region of Bulgaria. It plans to process 50 MT per month of consumer battery waste collected for smart phones and personal consumer electronics, recovering at least 6 MT of nickel metal, 10 [...]

Failure to recycle dead car batteries could cancel out benefits of electric vehicles. Major recycling plant to open in Plymouth amid fears environmental gains could be lost. See full article here.  

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Innovative process enables the recycling and reuse of electric vehicle battery components on a commercial scale. Altilium Metals Ltd is working with the University to develop a method through which the elements critical for EV batteries can be reused. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap="30"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The UK’s electric vehicle (EV) sector is set for rapid expansion over the [...]