British battery materials and a recycling company began only to treat lithium -ion battery waste at the Act 2 for recycling in Pleimoths at the beginning of December. In this “expansion factory”, the environment process is tested in Altilium and its authenticity is validated by car partners. For completion, ACT 1 is the name granted to the Technology Center in Altlilum in Devon, where the Ecocathode process was developed.
Through the “Meet Factory” law, which has now been built, Altilium wants to transfer its own operations to the next level, that is, as a widespread recycling plant. In the next stage, ACT4 as the “Mega Refinery”, it was already planned at the end of the nodes (where mineral salts and active materials of cathode are produced), but not yet achieved.
However, ACT 3 differs, as construction work on 1.6 hectare has already started, according to the press statement. Altilium hopes that the factory will provide “an important learning about material processing, expansion and improvement of operations, as well as sustainability and environmental compliance, as part of a clear expansion path to build ACT 4 Mega refinery on a later time of this decade.” Using an ecocathode process, the battery scrap is recycled in mixed nickel hydroxide deposits (MHP) and lithium sulfate, which Altilium describes as “critical intermediate materials for local battery cathode production”.
Altilium also has hydromyclium -recycling facilities – one of the first companies in the UK. “While recycling batteries in the United Kingdom have so far focused on tearing up the batteries and black production, Altilium is a pioneer in the next step: preserving valuable battery metals such as lithium and nickel in the United Kingdom through advanced hydromite refining. The material is supposed to be re -imported.
“The ACT 3 site coincides with the next stage of the Altilium mission to close the episode on the battery materials here in Britain. We are proud to build this measuring facility here in Pleimouth, which will be the cornerstone of the battery supply chain in the UK,” says Christian Marton, Operations Manager at Altilium. “It comes to a strategic and gradual approach to expanding the scope of a vital new industry, which guarantees the value of value in the country and creates long -term skilled green functions.”
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