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Brussels, Belgium-based Umicore has inaugurated its rechargeable battery recycling facility in Hoboken, Belgium. In late 2009 the company announced plans to invest €25 million (US$34.1 From left: Thomas Leysen, Umicore chairman of the board, Kris Peeters, minister-president of Flanders and Marc Grynberg, Umicore CEO, open the new battery recycling facility.
million) to build a battery recycling plant that would produce batteries for hybrid electric vehicles and mobile phone batteries.
In inaugurating the facility, Umicore says the market is anticipated to gain momentum, driven by a combination of intensifying recycling legislation, a continuously growing portable electronics market and an increasing share of hybrid and electric vehicles on the roads.
Umicore’s Hoboken facility will use its patented ultra-high temperature (UHT) smelting technology, which, the company claims, enables a cost-efficient and environmentally sound battery recycling process with the highest recovery rates and with minimal waste.
The facility will enable Umicore to offer a range of new recycling services, including a closed materials loop for battery producers. In addition, the technology will permit Umicore to test its suitability for recycling other streams of materials.
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