Li-Cycle, a Toronto headquartered lithium ion battery recycling company, last week opened a pre-processing facility in Magdeburg, Germany. The company deploys a spoke and hub system, whereby used lithium ion batteries are collected and sent to spokes where they are shredded into black mass. This black mass is then sent to centralised hub facilities which […]
> An emphasis on America-first supply chains when President-elect Donald Trump takes office in 2025 could increase the need for battery recycling in the US. However, much of the country’s recycling capacity is targeted at the production of black mass from scrap, rather than processing it all the way to usable battery chemicals. “Trump has placed […]
> Luxury electric vehicle developer, Lucid Motors is headquartered in California but is majority funded by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, Public Investment Fund (PIF). The company completed construction of its first manufacturing facility, AMP-1, in Arizona, US in December 2020 and opened a second, knock-down kit facility (AMP-2) in Saudi Arabia in September 2023. […]
> Black mass markets in Q3 2025 were largely shaped by China’s lifting of import restrictions on 1 August, which re‑routed trade flows. Outside of China, this has created a two-tier market divided by compliance with Chinese custom’s quality controls. Compliant material commanded high premiums (79%–84%), while producers of non‑compliant batches struggled to clear material, trading […]
> The mining industry accounted for ~5% of global carbon emissions last year, with roughly half originating from mining vehicles. Electrifying mine sites offers an opportunity for miners to cut emissions while also reducing costs. With 30%–50% of a mine’s energy costs attributed to diesel, replacing internal combustion fleets can deliver significant savings. “Mining electrification is […]
> The UK currently has no operating lithium extraction facilities. However, there are ambitious plans to develop this industry, with 97,000 tonnes LCE per year of nameplate capacity in the pipeline at various stages of funding and development. Direct lithium extraction (DLE) from geothermal brines accounts for 60% of this pipeline, according to Benchmark’s Lithium Forecast. […]
> Redwood Materials, Cirba Solutions, Ascend Elements, and Li-Cycle are emerging as key players in the North American battery recycling industry. Since 2019, these four recyclers have entered major strategic partnerships with cathode, cell, and electric vehicle makers for scrap collection and raw materials delivery, including with Toyota, Panasonic, Honda, SK On, and LG Energy Solution. […]
> At the end of last year lithium major Livent (now Arcadium Lithium) bought a minority stake in ILiAD Technologies, a California-based company that has spent years developing technology to produce lithium from various brines using Direct Lithium Extraction. The company’s adsorption technology has been developed over seven years of research and pilot testing with its […]
> Following the continued evolution of the lithium ion battery supply chain, and as part of its rolling methodology review process, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence announces the opening of the 2025 annual public consultation period, for comment on Benchmark’s market-leading price assessment methodologies for lithium, nickel, cobalt, natural graphite, synthetic graphite, anode, cathode, black mass and rare […]