Accurec invests and signs long term contracts
By signing a new, unlimited cooperation contract at this year’s IFAT, Dr. Ing Reiner Weyhe,
managing director of Accurec Recycling GmbH, and Dr. Hans Richter, director of Currenta
Environment, strengthen their cooperation in recycling of lithium batteries. In the coming years,
they will implement a safe recycling for up to 15,000 tons of lithium batteries "Since the
beginning of our strategic cooperation, we have already treated about 7,000 tons of
high-performance batteries and closed the material cycles on a large scale for the first time, “
Dr. Reiner Weyhe explained. "With the new cooperation contract, we want to intensify and
strengthen our cooperation," Dr. Richter continued. The exclusive partnership brings together
two companies with designated expertise in the thermal treatment and mechanical processing
of complex metal mixtures.
In its rotary kiln, Currenta is able to pre-treat thermally all types of market available lithium
batteries - for example nickel-cobalt, lithium iron phosphate and lithium manganese oxide. In
the temperature-controlled (
"A large portion of investment has been spent on storage and process safety," Dr. Ing. Albrecht
Melber, Co-managing director of Accurec, explained. "Our customers can expect a safe storage
of their sensitive dangerous goods.“ With a fully automatized water flooding system, 600 cbm/h
water in the storage area can fight possible battery fires efficiently.
"With a future-oriented permit limit of 60,000 tons per year, we are adapting ourselves to a
growing market segment, although the technical treatment capacity is designed to 5,000 t/a as a
start" Dr. Weyhe explained. In particular, the classification and batch treatment of Li-battery
subtypes with different ingredients is part of the core competencies of the company. Moreover,
the facility provides a modern, ergonomic disassembly line for Li-ion battery modules from
electromobility, and a complex mechanical processing of the inactive battery materials from the
thermal pretreatment at Currenta. As a result of the strategic partnership in industrial scale, the
valuable metals from lithium batteries can be returned into the economic cycle in a safe,
cost-efficient and environmental friendly way.
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