ABAT said that the customer has made a bulk purchase transaction from its lithium-ion battery facility which began operations in October 2023.
The ABAT recycling facility utilises its integrated set of recycling processes based on a strategic de-manufacturing approach that utilises a deconstruction process combined with a targeted selective hydrometallurgical process. This system is agnostic to feedstock form factors and can process lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap of a variety of sizes and shapes, and with a wide range of internal chemistries.
The first phase of the recycling process produces recycled products that include copper, aluminium, steel, a lithium intermediate, and a black mass intermediate material, and the integrated second phase further refines these materials into battery grade nickel sulphate, cobalt sulphate, manganese sulphate, and lithium hydroxide. The second phase of this integrated recycling system is currently being implemented.
"We are proud to have manufactured bulk quantities of high nickel and cobalt content recycled black mass material at our commercial-scale, lithium-ion battery recycling facility," said ABAT's CEO Ryan Melsert.
