TES has opened its battery recycling facility in Singapore just over a month after receiving $25 million to launch two TES B facilities— the other will be in France.
The facility in Singapore has the capacity to handle 14 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries, or the equivalent of 280,000 smart phones, each day.
The firm’s battery recycling process uses hydrometallurgy process to extract materials such as lithium and cobalt at purity levels and extraction rates that make them materially and commercially viable for reuse in the forward battery supply chain, say the firm
The company claims it can recover 9kgs of usable commodity material from every 10kgs of batteriesthat go into the recycling process, and at a purity level of >99% for materials such as cobalt and lithium.
TES’s proprietary technology in Singapore (and its European facility in France) closes the loop on the take-make-dispose model widely used in the lithium battery manufacture and disposal chain.
Speaking of the Singapore plant last month, Damian Chan, assistant managing director, Singapore Economic Development Board, said: “The facility to recover precious metals from batteries using a new hydrometallurgy process allows Singapore to offer closed loop battery recycling services, thus serving domestic needs and enhancing the regional value chain for e-waste management.
“In addition, as electric vehicle adoption and solar deployment scale up in Singapore, TES B and TES’s efforts in second-life ESS will contribute to our battery recycling and energy management ecosystem.”
