【SMM Analysis】Recycling Industry Events This Week (October. 20-24)

Published: Oct 26, 2025 22:52

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Recycling Industry Events This Week (October. 20-24)

This week's recycling industry events.

[Public Announcement of 40,000-Ton Annual Power Battery Recycling Project]

A key power battery recycling project in Luoyuan County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, capable of processing 40,000 tons of waste batteries annually, has been announced. The project focuses on the recycling of ternary waste materials and the production of high-value-added products. It is currently in the public disclosure stage for its environmental impact assessment. The project is being constructed by a company within the existing plant area of the Jingang Industrial Zone in Luoyuan Bay Development Zone. It involves using already-built factory buildings and land parcels to establish a new comprehensive utilization production line for recycling ternary waste materials (lithium batteries). The project covers a land area of 60.95 mu, with a total floor area of 52,587.6 square meters.

[Anhui Billion-Yuan Battery Recycling Project Lands]

Recently, the official website of the Bengbu Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau published the acceptance notice for the environmental impact report of a waste lithium battery comprehensive utilization project. The project is located in the Lingang Industrial Park industrial cluster within the Bengbu Economic Development Zone, Anhui. The total investment is 100 million yuan. The proposed project will be constructed in three phases. The environmental protection investment is 8.61 million yuan, accounting for 8.61% of the total project investment. Phase I focuses on the echelon utilization of power batteries. Phase II involves the disassembly and utilization of waste batteries. Phase III entails the construction of a smart factory. The construction includes lithium battery disassembly workshops, production and processing workshops, raw material and finished product warehouses, etc. Upon completion, the project will process 10,000 tons of lithium batteries annually.

[New Battery Recycling Player Enters the Market]

A Beijing-based materials company is actively expanding into the battery recycling sector. The company signed an investment cooperation agreement with several partners on October 16, 2025. The parties intend to establish a joint venture company in Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province through joint investment. This joint venture will be responsible for businesses such as the green recycling of waste lithium-ion power batteries.

[Latest Progress on Hunan's 60,000-Ton Lithium Carbonate Project]

It is reported that an annual 60,000-ton lithium carbonate project of a Hunan company has a total investment of 5.856 billion yuan. Not long ago, the company's lithium salt lake project with an annual output of 20,000 tons of lithium carbonate also officially announced its commencement of production.

[100,000-Ton LFP Material Megadeal Lands]

A company announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary recently signed a Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) Cooperation Framework Agreement with another energy company. The agreement stipulates that the subsidiary will supply 100,000 tons of LFP cathode material products to the energy company over the next three years.

[New Progress on Anhui 100,000-Ton Lithium Battery Echelon Utilization Project]

Recently, the Management Committee of a High-tech Industrial Development Zone published the environmental impact analysis statement for a new energy vehicle power battery echelon utilization project. It is reported that the total investment for this project is 300 million yuan. The project involves the annual collection and echelon utilization of 100,000 tons of lithium batteries and will be constructed in two phases.

[Sichuan 200,000-Ton Lithium Resource Comprehensive Utilization Project Lands]

Recently, an ecological environment bureau conducted a public notice for the environmental impact report for a comprehensive recovery and utilization project for lithium-containing solid waste slag. The project plans to build a 200,000-ton/year comprehensive recovery and utilization production line for solid waste slag.

[Phase II of Annual 30,000-Ton Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Project Announced]

The second-phase project of an Anhui technology company plans to invest 500 million yuan to build a 100,000-ton resource recycling system for lithium-containing materials. This serves as an intermediate stage of a larger lithium carbonate project.

[40,000-Ton Power Battery Recycling, Disassembly, and Echelon Utilization Project Lands]

Recently, the environmental impact report for a Power Battery Recycling, Disassembly, and Echelon Utilization Project was approved. The project will utilize existing facilities to construct production lines for battery recycling and echelon utilization. Upon completion, the project will form an annual capacity of recycling and disassembling 20,000 tons of power batteries and echelon utilizing 20,000 tons of power batteries.

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