RecycLiCo engaging Hatch on Taiwan battery recycling plant construction

Lithium-ion battery recycler RecycLiCo, based in Surrey, British Columbia, has engaged Hatch Ltd. to provide consulting services in connection with the Stage 2 battery recycling plant that will be operated in Taiwan by RecycLiCo Zenith Battery Materials Technology Co., the company’s joint venture with Taiwan-based Zenith Chemical.

Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Hatch will assist the company in its review of the design plan for the plant prepared by Kemetco, the joint venture’s principal contractor and RecycLiCo’s long-time collaborator. As previously announced, RecycLiCo says it will supervise construction in Vancouver of an expandable modular facility—initially slated to process 2,000 metric tons per year—which will be transported to, and commissioned in, Taiwan.

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Once approved, the design plan will serve as the basis for a formal construction agreement between the joint venture and Kemetco. Construction is expected to begin later this year.

“We are excited to have Hatch on board with us for this project,” RecycLiCo interim CEO Richard Sadowsky says. “Their years of engineering and business experience will be of great value to us as we continue to move past the venture stage and provide the industry with a commercially viable and effective recycling solution.”

The company says the battery recycling technology employed by the joint venture will be capable of processing black mass and black powder into high-value products, such as battery-grade lithium chemicals and precursor cathode active material (pCAM).