RECYCLE

Anode recycling

EcoGraf™ purification technology with sector leading ESG credentials.

The addition of EcoGraf’s recycling application, using its HFfree™ proprietary purification process, provides a unique and vertically integrated business that meets the new age requirements for raw materials. 


Clean and Green

EcoGraf™ believes this recycling capability will fundamentally change the dynamics of the battery supply chain, leading to a significant reduction in CO2 emissions and lowering overall battery production costs.

Recycling provides an opportunity to support electric vehicle and battery manufacturers achieve sustainable, closed-loop manufacturing processes as part of the global effort to develop a circular economy through zero-waste batteries to address the growing environmental costs from end-of-life batteries and to improve battery manufacturing efficiencies.

Full cycle active anode recovery

EcoGraf™ is leveraging its proprietary EcoGraf HFfree™ purification process to recover and re-use anode materials, with an initial focus on production scrap from anode cell and battery manufacturing processes. 

The Company has engaged a leading European anode recycling specialist to advise on refining its anode recycling process for a range of anode waste materials. An initial program completed at the Helmholtz Institute in Germany during the year compared the electrochemical performance of graphite from end-of-life batteries recycled using the EcoGraf HFfree™ purification process with commercial battery graphite benchmarks.

The testing confirmed that the electrochemical performance of the EcoGraf HFfree™ recovered graphite matches that of the brand-new commercial anode graphite.

The outcome is further validation of the effectiveness of the EcoGraf HFfree™ purification process for the production of high-performance battery graphite, as well as the re-use of recycled battery anode material for anode, battery and electric vehicle customers.

New legislation requires increasing battery recycling and EcoGraf purification enables customers to recover and re-use anode material, lowering battery costs and CO2 emissions

RecoBAM™ recycled, high purity anode material

RecoBAM™ is the recovered carbon anode material product using EcoGraf’s HFfree™ processing technology and contains both natural battery graphite and synthetic graphite.

RecoBAM™ combines the benefits of both synthetic and natural graphite whilst significantly lowering CO2 eq. per kg CSPG.

Key environmental aspects

  • Successful application of the EcoGraf™ purification technique to recover carbon anode material from lithium-ion battery production waste and end-of-life batteries
  • Opportunity to support global battery recycling initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions from the manufacture of electric vehicles and to lower battery life cycle costs, and
  • Enables electric vehicle and battery manufacturers to adopt closed- loop supply chains to maximise production efficiencies and meet stringent legislative requirements for recycling.