Yancheng Launches 50k-ton LIB Recycling Project with High Recovery Rates

Published: Jul 27, 2026 14:42

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【50k-ton LIB Recycling and Utilization Project Launched in Yancheng, Jiangsu】 Recently, the ecological environment authority of Yancheng, Jiangsu, released the proposed review notice for the EIA of the annual 50,000-ton LIB recycling and utilization project. The project involves a total investment of RMB 450 million, located in Dafeng Port Petrochemical New Materials Industrial Park, Yancheng. It constructs a recycling production line for 50,000 tons of retired LIBs (including retired power LIBs, electrode scrap, and battery material powder). Using "reductive enhanced leaching — cascade separation" process, recovery rates of nickel, cobalt, manganese, and lithium reach 98.5%, 98%, 98%, and 90%, respectively. Main products include black mass, metallic copper, metallic aluminum, and iron (steel shells), with further processing yielding lithium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, hydrogen, and lithium fluoride.

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