At Stena Recycling, we offer a wide range of lithium-ion battery recycling services. We provide services for sorting and collecting used lithium-ion batteries as well as waste left over from battery production. We also offer the safe transportation of used and damaged lithium-ion batteries and production waste to our certified battery recycling facilities. Here, all lithium-ion batteries are tested for reusability. Batteries that can’t be reused and any production waste are recycled into new high-quality raw materials.
The number of battery-powered products being manufactured globally is growing rapidly – from smart devices and home appliances to power tools and electric cars. And as our world turns electric, one of the biggest challenges to emerge is how to responsibly take care of used lithium-ion batteries in a safe, circular way that complies with all relevant environmental legislation.
At Stena Recycling, we work together with battery manufacturers, automotive OEMs and across industries to ensure that used lithium-ion batteries and production waste such as battery cells, copper foil, aluminium and plastic are recycled or reused safely and responsibly – in a way that benefits your business and the environment.
We currently operate certified Battery Centers for testing, recycling and reuse in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Poland – with new facilities planned in Italy and Norway. This combination of investment and ambition enables us to recycle and reuse lihium-ion batteries on an industrial level from countries all over Europe. In European countries where Stena Recycling doesn’t operate, we work with trusted logistics partners who can collect your used lithium-ion batteries if the volume is substantial enough. The batteries are then safely transported to the nearest country with a certified Stena Recycling battery facility.
We can collect your waste material and recycle it into high-quality recycled raw materials for use in the production of new batteries.
Our recycling facilities are powered by renewable energy and our processes are energy efficient – making them safe for employees and the environment.
With our advanced recycling processes, we regularly receive and handle waste material on an industrial level – safely and efficiently.
We have certified recycling facilities in several countries and can offer coverage in large parts of Europe.
As well as battery recycling, we can also take care of other waste streams, e.g. contaminated water from battery production.
Stena Recycling is committed to becoming a leading player in Europe in the area of recycling and reuse of lithium-ion batteries.
We have illustrated the challanges and opportunities of vehicle battery recycling in our position paper below. Discover how we can enable the automotive industry’s transition to more circular solutions.
After rigorous testing, all lithium-ion batteries that are deemed safe for reuse are documented and marked for traceability. They are then prepared for safe transportation before beginning a second life in new applications such as energy storage systems. Any batteries that can’t be reused are safely discharged, dismantled, and high levels of valuable material extracted. All types of lithium-ion batteries like LTO, LFP, LMO, NMC, LCO and NCA can be recycled, while the residual energy extracted from the batteries is either fed back to the grid or used in our recycling processes.
With our advanced recycling processes we can recover plastic, aluminium and copper. But most importantly, we can also extract critical resources such as lithium, cobalt and nickel in what is called black mass. The black mass is then further refined by our expert partners and valuable materials extracted using a hydrometallurgical process. The extracted material is then recycled for use in new batteries. We can arrange for one of our expert partners to refine the black mass for you, creating a closed loop, or we can deliver it to be refined by your own partner. In the proposed EU battery regulation, new lithium-ion batteries must contain a minimum of 12% cobalt, 4% lithium, and 4% nickel from non-virgin materials. Thanks to our investment and advanced processes, we can influence how much recycled raw material battery manufacturers use in their batteries and help reach this goal.
Through recycling or reuse on an industrial scale, Stena Recycling offers a safe, sustainable solution for your end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. Contact us and let’s work together to increase your battery recycling, reduce your climate impact and reduce costs.
Traceability – knowing what a product is made of and where it comes from – is a key part of sustainability. So, when it comes to lithium-ion batteries, manufacturers, customers and partners want to be able to follow a battery throughout its entire lifecycle. At Stena Recycling, we collect as much information as possible about the lithium-ion batteries that we handle. We then label each battery so that it is easily traceable in the future.
We have collected some frequently asked questions about the future of battery recycling.
We receive many interesting questions regarding the future of battery recycling. Here, we have collected some questions and answers. The answers are provided by the experts who participated in our Future of Battery Recycling event and Stena Recycling’s R&D department.
