Ace Green Recycling, Acme expand lead recycling partnership

Ace Green Recycling, Inc., a Houston-based provider of battery recycling technology solutions, has expanded a lead battery recycling licensing agreement with Acme Metal Enterprise, a Taiwanese lead recycler.

Acme has been leveraging Ace's Greenlead recycling technology, a fully electric process that produces zero Scope 1 carbon emissions, to process batteries at its Taiwan facility since 2024.

Ace and Acme’s extended licensing agreement now includes metallics treatment for lead battery recycling at Acme’s facility. Ace says it plans to install its proprietary Grid Metallics Processing System (GMPS) to enable Acme to process grid metallics from more than 65 million pounds of lead batteries per year. Ace expects to commission the GMPS in the fourth quarter of this year.

"We have witnessed the impressive capabilities of Ace's innovative and environmentally friendly lead battery recycling technology first-hand through our partnership over the past year," Acme Managing Director Linus P. Lu says. "Ace has set the industry standard for solving many of the challenges in recycling lead, and we look forward to expanding how we leverage their technology to meet the growing demand from our automotive and battery manufacturing customers."

GMPS receives dirty metallics from the lead battery breaker and separation system to produce clean metallics, which can be melted to produce valuable lead alloys. According to Ace, with the expansion of metallics treatment, the upgraded Acme facility is expected to be capable of producing more than 17 million pounds of refined lead and lead alloys each year, enough to support the production of more than 1 million car batteries.

"Acme is a valued partner to Ace, and this expanded agreement demonstrates more third-party validation of the strength of our recycling solutions," Ace co-founder and CEO Nishchay Chadha says. "This agreement enables Ace to generate additional revenues and further expand our margins. Advancing our asset-light expansion plans in this important market for Ace strategically positions us for success as we progress in our global expansion plans."