Fangyuan Recycling expands and upgrades its Jiangmen base

The Ecological Environment Bureau of Jiangmen City in the Guangdong Province in China has approved the environmental impact assessment for the "Lithium Battery Recycling Technology Transformation Project" by Fangyuan Recycling Technology, marking the project's official approval and imminent implementation.

Located in the Zhuxi New Materials Cluster (District 3) in Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, the project will introduce a new pre-processing line for nickel-based lithium batteries, with an annual capacity of 5,000 tonnes of battery packs and 7,000 tonnes of additional cells.

Additionally, the project will upgrade the crystallization production line, increasing annual production capacities to 39,000 tonnes of nickel sulphate and 18,000 tons of cobalt sulphate, while manganese sulphate output will rise from 2,512 tons to 6,000 tons. Notably, the project will discontinue some magnesium sulphate products to focus on more valuable products.

It will also redesign its lithium production by the lithium hydroxide production process by converting lithium sulphate solution into lithium carbonate, part of which will be used to produce lithium hydroxide. Although lithium hydroxide output will decrease from 10,000 tons to 5,080 tons annually, the project will add 5,000 tons of lithium carbonate production, optimizing the product structure and enhancing economic benefits.

Fangyan Recycling Technology (previously known as Fangyan Environmental Protection) is one of the pioneers in Chinese battery recycling and one of the largest producers of nickel-based precursor with Panasonic as one of its largest customers. The company is also building a 300,000 tpa LFP recycling plant.