Eco Recycling Ltd - IT Ministry Transfers Crucial Li-lon Battery Recycling Tech

The indigenous technology can process various types of discarded Li-ion batteries, recovering more than 95 per cent of the lithium (Li), cobalt (Co), manganese (Mn), and nickel (Ni) contents in the form of their respective oxides or carbonates with a purity of around 98 per cent.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday transferred cost-effective lithiumjon battery recycling technology to nine recycling companies and nine more received letters of intent at Niti Aayog.

MeitY developed this technology in partnership with the Government of Telangana and industry partner, Greenko Energies Pvt. Ltd., as part of the "Centre of Excellence on E-waste Management" established at the Centre for Material for Electronics technique (C-MET), Hyderabad. Eco Recycling Ltd is a proud recipient of Letter of Intent. The event was attended by Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary at Meity, Bhuvnesh Kumar, Additional Secretary at Meity, BVR Subrahmanyam, CEO of Niti Aayog, and others.

This indigenous technology can process various types of discarded Li-ion batteries, recovering more than 95 per cent of the lithium (Li), cobalt (Co), manganese (Mn), and nickel (Ni) contents in the form of their respective oxides or carbonates with a purity of around 98 per cent. The recycling process includes leaching, followed by hierarchical selective extraction of metal values using solvent extraction. These secondary raw materials might be employed in battery manufacture or other future uses.

Dr R Ratheesh, Director at C-MET Hyderabad, during the presentation of the technology, mentioned Niti Aayog's report according to which by 2030, the country's overall lithium battery storage requirement will be around 600 GWh and about 125 GWh of lithium batteries will be ready for recycling.

Citing the report, Dr. Ratheesh said the black mass (used to describ nickel, copper and lithium) amount will be 3,60,000 tons. Furthermore, he said: "Currently all the black masses are going to China and Korea for recycling, so I think we have started the recycling initiative at the right time and I request the authorities to put a ban on the export of these materials so that we can support Indian industries to come out with more recycling initiatives."

Niti Aayog CEO, while applauding MeitY and C-MET, also echoed similar thoughts and indicated that the time has come to reduce the dependency on other countries as the recycling technology provides the option to use raw materials already available inside the borders, instead of importing from other countries.

With the addition of Recycling Technology for Li-ion Batteries Ecoreco's metal recovery capabilities will increase further. So far, practically all the Li-ion batteries and PCBs were sent to developed countries for recovery of metals and whenever India needs these metals for production of electronic devices, we had no other choice then to import the same metals at far higher price. This is really a great achievement in the interest of the Country and we congratulate C-MET and Meity for such development.

Shares of ECO RECYCLING LTD. was last trading in BSE at Rs. 120.25 as compared to the previous close of Rs. 120.55. The total number of shares traded during the day was 32265 in over 322 trades.

The stock hit an intraday high of Rs. 124.65 and intraday low of 119.80. The net turnover during the day was Rs. 3942226.00.

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