Kunming's $22.5M Battery Recycling Plant to Feature Advanced Sorting, Processing Tech

Published: Feb 25, 2026 17:01
The first public notice for the environmental impact assessment of the project (Phase I) has been released. Located in Standard Factory Buildings B3-4, International Printing and Packaging City, Guandu District, Kunming City, the project has a total investment of 157 million yuan. It adopts technologies including high-compatibility rapid non-destructive testing and sorting for retired batteries, pre-treatment technology for power lithium battery recycling, and conventional battery production lines to process waste power lithium batteries and form battery module products. The project will construct one automatic production line for 18650 cylindrical batteries, one for 32700 lithium iron phosphate batteries, one for prismatic aluminum-shell batteries, and one for pouch batteries.

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