Morrow Batteries and Stena Recycling have made an agreement on processing battery production scrap from the Morrow cell factory in Arendal, Norway. The scrap will be handled at Stena Recycling’s new battery recycling plant in Halmstad, Sweden.
Morrow is due to start trial battery production in 2024, and Stena will take the production scrap for the next 18 months.
Stena’s Marcus Martinsson said European and Nordic battery recycling are emerging, alongside cell production, in the Nordic region. “In addition to this, the early high levels of EV penetration in the Nordic region have sparked the beginning of a growing end-of-life battery waste stream. This market segment is a crucial focus area for Stena Recycling and is addressed locally in all Nordic countries with a broad focus on compliant and safe value-creation via re-use, second use and recycling.”
The EV battery recycling market is in its infancy and although EV penetration is higher in the Nordic market, volumes are still small in an industrial perspective, he added.
Separately, Norway’s Hydrovolt and Finnish Fortum announced a tie-up, with the latter taking black mass from the former for hydrometallurgical processing at its plant in Hjaravalta, Finland.
Tero Holländer, Head of Finland’s Fortum Battery Recycling, said the agreement is the first commercial one for black mass offtake between the two companies in “an emerging market with large potential” in the battery industry.
Hydrovolt is a battery recycling and raw materials company established in 2020 as a 50/50 joint venture between the Norwegian industry giant Hydro and the Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt.
Photo: black mass. Hydrovolt
