{"id":126379,"date":"2023-05-08T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=126379"},"modified":"2023-05-03T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:34:36","slug":"fortum-battery-recycling-opens-europes-largest-closed-loop-hydrometallurgical-battery-recycling-facility-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/fortum-battery-recycling-opens-europes-largest-closed-loop-hydrometallurgical-battery-recycling-facility-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortum Battery Recycling opens Europe\u2019s largest closed-loop hydromet\u00adal\u00adlur\u00adgical battery recycling facility in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

The newly established facility is the largest recycling plant in Europe in terms of recycling capacity, and it is also the first commercial-scale facility in Europe for hydrometallurgical recycling. The new large-scale facility will greatly ease the European battery manufacturers\u2019 rising demand for sustainable battery materials, helping to reduce Europe\u2019s dependence on imported critical battery raw materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fortum recycling facility \u00a9<\/strong> Fortum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith our new low CO2<\/sub> hydrometallurgical plant in Harjavalta, we are able to sustainably produce the materials urgently needed for new EV lithium-ion and industrial-use batteries,\u201d says\u00a0Tero Holl\u00e4nder<\/strong>, Head of Business Line, Batteries, Fortum Battery Recycling. \u201cThanks to our cutting-edge hydrometallurgical technology, 95% of the valuable and critical metals from battery’s black mass can be recovered and returned to the cycle for the production of new lithium-ion battery chemicals.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Fortum\u2019s recycling process recovers critical metals from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries as well as battery production waste and produces secondary metals for new lithium-ion batteries on an industrial scale. The plant is already producing nickel and cobalt sulphates and Fortum is proud to state that the products meet the customer specifications. The hydrometallurgical plant in Harjavalta is designed with the highest safety standards for people and the environment while maintaining a low carbon footprint in its operations and maximum efficiency in recycling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe demand for recycled battery materials is set to increase dramatically over the next five to ten years as the green energy transition speeds up. At the same time, the new EU sustainable batteries regulation requires battery, electronics and automotive manufacturers to gradually increase the amount of recycled materials in batteries. The manufacturers need to prepare for the legislative changes now, as the first minimum levels of recovery for materials such as cobalt, nickel and lithium will come into force in 2026. Having invested in recycling technology and capacity at an early stage, we are set to meet this demand. We are proud to be the forerunners investing in sustainable solutions for the future,\u201d says Holl\u00e4nder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Fortum Battery Recycling\u2019s operations cover all the necessary treatment and production steps to achieve the highest recycling rates and provide a closed loop for battery recycling along the entire value chain in Europe: pre-treatment services in Kirchardt, Germany and mechanical process in Ikaalinen, and hydrometallurgical metal recovery in Harjavalta. By combining Fortum\u2019s mechanical and hydrometallurgical processes, 80% of a battery can be recycled. Fortum Battery Recycling is also working with industrial side-streams, recovering critical battery materials from metal industry\u2019s side streams in Tornio, with another novel hydrometallurgical process that produces a nickel intermediate product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo reach the set EU policy targets, we can\u2019t limit the source of the recycled content only to end-of-life batteries and battery manufacturing scrap, as this will simply not be enough for the need of the manufacturing industries. This is why we must harness all waste streams containing critical metals. At Fortum Battery Recycling, we are already working on these industrial side streams,\u201d says Holl\u00e4nder.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As e-mobility grows, so does the demand for batteries, and with it the demand for critical raw materials. Recycling is an essential building block for the future to meet this demand, and also to drive decarbonisation. To answer the challenges of the industry, Fortum Battery Recycling is continuously exploring possibilities to expand operations to other European regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Fortum Battery Recycling<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a clean energy company, Fortum has been providing waste and recycling services since 2016 and has expertise in the management of both hazardous and difficult waste streams. Fortum’s battery recycling technology is backed by in-house research and development, and the company is continuously exploring opportunities to expand its recycling capacity in Europe. In March 2023, Fortum Battery Recycling\u00a0started EV battery recycling operations in Kirchardt, Germany<\/a>. With the facility in Germany, Fortum is able to offer its services for the collection and processing of end-of-life batteries and production scrap close to central European customers. The hub in Germany can pre-treat over 3,000 tonnes of batteries per year and is connected to the Harjavalta site where the hydrometallurgical process takes place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newly established facility is the largest recycling plant in Europe in terms of recycling capacity, and it is also the first commercial-scale facility in Europe for hydrometallurgical recycling. The new large-scale facility will greatly ease the European battery manufacturers\u2019 rising demand for sustainable battery materials, helping to reduce Europe\u2019s dependence on imported critical battery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Fortum Battery Recycling has started commercial operations at its state-of-the-art hydrometallurgical battery material recycling facility in Harjavalta, Finland","footnotes":""},"categories":[17143],"tags":[16780,10416,10630,22118,10453],"supplier":[6150],"class_list":["post-126379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recycling","tag-battery","tag-circulareconomy","tag-hydrogen","tag-hydrometallurgic","tag-recycling","supplier-fortum-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126379"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=126379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}