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    Ecobat opening Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling plant in Arizona this year

    Feb. 20, 2023
    The new facility will be sited in Casa Grande, Arizona and configured to produce 10,000 tons of recycled battery materials per year. It will be Ecobat’s third lithium-ion recycling facility globally
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    Texas-based battery recycler Ecobat is going to build its first North American lithium-ion battery recycling facility.

    The new facility will be sited in Casa Grande, Arizona and configured to produce 10,000 tons of recycled battery materials per year. It will be Ecobat’s third lithium-ion recycling facility globally.

    With electric vehicle and battery storage markets estimated to grow exponentially as both the grid and transportation sectors attempt to decarbonize, lithium ion currently makes up about 90 percent of the chemistries used in larger-scale batteries, according to reports. Mordor Intellgence and another analysts have forecast a nearly double-digit percentage annual growth in the li-ion battery recycling market through most of this decade.

    “We are thrilled to grow our global lithium-ion battery recycling footprint with a new facility in Casa Grande,” Ecobat CEO Marcus Randolph said in a statement. “This facility, like our lithium-ion battery recycling facilities in Germany and the United Kingdom, represents a significant milestone in Ecobat’s strategy to grow our lithium-ion battery recycling business to a scale similar to our world-leading lead battery recycling business.”

    The Arizona facility will recycle lithium-ion batteries through diagnostics, sort, shredding and material separation to produce a concentrated black mass containing the key materials needed. It will be a mile from Ecobat Resource’s anode manufacturing facility.

    The new recycling plant could start up as early as the third quarter this year.

    Ecobat’s origins date back to Italy in the early 20th century and originally focused on lead smelters.

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

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    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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