Mercedes-Benz has celebrated the start of work on a lithium battery recycling plant in Germany that will recover 96% of materials, helping to produce 50,000 battery modules a year
Dismantling of the batteries at Kuppenheim is set to begin at the end of this year. Later the facility will also shred, dry and process the battery materials using a hydrometallurgy process developed with technology expert Primobius, a joint venture between German mechanical engineering company SMS and the Australian project developer Neometals.
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