Altilium teams with ABB on battery recycling
UK-based Altilium is working with ABB to enhance its battery recycling operations ahead of a planned Teesside facility that could process waste from over 150,000 EVs per year.
Altilium develops cathode and anode battery materials from waste streams such as lithium scrap and mine spoil. In 2022, the company opened its EV Battery Recycling Technology Centre in Devon, while it also operates a larger scale site in Eastern Europe - the European Solvent Extraction-Electrowinning (SX-EW) facility - that will be capable of recycling battery waste from over 24,000 vehicles annually.
Working with ABB, Altilium plans to scale up operations at SX-EW, integrating automation and electrification, as well as trialling digital technologies such as ABB’s Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at the plant. SX-EW is due to start processing waste in 2024.
Longer term, Altilium plans to incorporate ABB’s technology into its planned Teesside plant, due to open in 2026. According to Altilium, that facility could produce up to 20 per cent of the UK’s cathode active material (CAM) requirements, making it one of Europe’s largest battery recycling sites.
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