Li-ion Battery Recycle: AMY Announces A 99% Nickel, Cobalt Recovery Purity

American Manganese Inc. (AMY) aims at long term development of its Li-ion battery recycling project, which provides high extraction of cathode metals, such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and aluminum. According to foreign media reports, AMY announced that its research and development contractor, Kemetco Research, has obtained preliminary samples of cathode materials from disassembled electric vehicle battery packs provided by the result of the US Department of Energy (DOE).

The company's CEO Larry Reaugh has positive things to say about recent actions by the international community to incentivize lithium-ion battery recycling. The purity of the disassembled and recovered materials such as nickel, cobalt, and manganese is up to 98.91%, 99.72%, and 99.27%, respectively.

The project is a collaboration between AMY and DOE in March last year and is chaired by the American Critical Materials Institute (CMI). The project is formally titled the "Lithium-Ion Battery Disassembly, Remanufacturing, and Lithium & Cobalt Recovery Project."

This project is focused on developing an economic recovery strategy to maximize the recovery in end-of-use lithium-ion batteries from electric and hybrid electric vehicles and other consumer goods such as electric bicycles and power tools.

AMY is mainly engaged in the recovery of metals from lithium-ion batteries such as lithium, nickel, manganese, and aluminum. Its patented RecycLiCo process is dedicated to the recovery of used lithium-ion batteries. It can extract cathode metals with a high degree of battery purity with minimal processing steps.

Kemetco Research is a private sector integrated science, technology, and innovation company. Providing scientific expertise in the fields of special analytical chemistry, chemical processes, and extractive metallurgy.

Recently, the company announced that it has received initial results from Kemetco Research regarding the recycling tests of Li-ion battery material received from tier-one companies. Concerning American Manganese's confidentiality agreement with the tier-one companies, they will be referred to as Company A and Company B.

The company report stated that "recycled samples from Company A reported a recovery of 88.75% for Cobalt and 84.12% for Nickel using the RecycLiCo™ Patented Process." The test results will be reported to Company B upon completion and receipt.

Kemetco Research said: "We have produced high-quality nickel and cobalt hydroxide from our initial tests of tier-one NCA cathode scrap and are optimizing the conditions for a production run of a larger quantity of material for customer testing, which we are proceeding."

AMY also announced that its Li-ion battery recycling project has received support from the Canadian government and will receive recommendations and conditional funding from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program of Canada. The main goal is to build a demonstration lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Europe and North America based on "co-development and implementation of complementary innovative technologies from each company".

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