The Aurubis copper smelter is getting into battery recycling for e-cars
Europe’s largest copper smelter Aurubis is getting into battery recycling with a pilot plant at its home location in Hamburg. The plant is designed to extract valuable metals such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and graphite from the so-called black mass that is produced when lithium-ion batteries are dismantled and shredded.
“The metals recovered in the Aurubis recycling process can then be used for new batteries and other products,” announced Aurubis AG on Friday. In view of the growing e-mobility, the extraction of raw materials for the batteries required for this is playing an increasingly important role – and with it recycling. Battery manufacturers such as Swedish company Northvol…
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