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MECHANICAL PROCESSING OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES AT THE OTUA GROUP
The new EU battery regulation (COM (2020) 798/3), which sets recycling targets of 65% by average weight by 2025 and 70% by 2030, requires further efficiency improvements in the recycling processes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Furthermore, the circular economy and the reduction in the consumption of raw materials can mean a significant improvement in competitiveness, profitability and sustainability for Basque companies.
The recovery of high-value materials contained in the so-called Black Mass (BM), which contains graphite, cobalt (Co), lithium (Li) or nickel (Ni), which can be reintroduced into the value chain, as well as other relevant materials for the Basque Country such as copper (Cu), aluminium (Al) and steels is key to the management of LIBs. There is no business line in the Basque Country that manages waste from LIBs. BatUA aims to do this with waste generated throughout the state.
REYDESA, part of the Otua Group, is a leading company in the recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous metals that manages a wide range of metal waste. For BatUA, the company has worked with INATEC, the Otua Group's R&D Unit.
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