POSCO Holdings Completes Construction of Second Battery Recycling Plant in Poland

On the 25th, Battery Recycling Plant Completion Ceremony in Brzezdolnisi, Poland
Collecting and Crushing Battery Scrap and Waste Batteries in Europe
Annual Production of 7,000 Tons of Black Mass

Exterior view of the secondary battery recycling plant 'PLSC' located in Brzezdonisie, Poland. Photo by POSCO Holdings

POSCO Holdings announced on the 26th that it has completed the construction of the secondary battery recycling plant 'PLSC' in Brzeg Dolny, Poland.

The completion ceremony held on the 25th (local time) was attended by Yoo Byung-ok, Head of the Eco-friendly Future Materials Team at POSCO Holdings, Lim Hun-min, Ambassador to Poland, Janusz Ziarski, Governor, Paweł Pirek, Mayor, as well as representatives from customers and partners including LG Energy Solution, GS Energy, and Sungil High-Tech.

Yoo Byung-ok, Head of the Eco-friendly Future Materials Team at POSCO Holdings, stated, "The recycling business is the central axis of the eco-friendly battery circular economy and a core part of POSCO Group's secondary battery materials business. We will continuously expand the recycling business to take the lead in corporate social responsibility while securing competitiveness in secondary battery material raw materials."

POSCO Holdings established the secondary battery recycling subsidiary PLSC in March last year to respond to the growth of the secondary battery recycling market driven by the expansion of the electric vehicle market and the mandatory use of recycled secondary battery raw materials required by governments worldwide and major customers. The plant is operated in collaboration with Sungil High-Tech, a domestic company possessing proprietary secondary battery recycling technology.

PLSC, completed about 10 months after construction began in October last year, is a secondary battery recycling plant with an annual production capacity of 7,000 tons. It collects and crushes scrap and waste batteries generated during the battery manufacturing process in Europe to produce powder-type intermediate processed products (black mass), which will be supplied to POSCO HY Clean Metal to extract lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and other materials. Black mass is a black powder obtained by crushing and selectively collecting lithium-ion battery scrap, containing nickel, lithium, cobalt, manganese, and more.

Meanwhile, since entering the secondary battery materials business in 2010, POSCO Group has been continuously investing and developing technology in the core raw materials of lithium and nickel. By 2030, the group plans to establish a stable secondary battery materials value chain to produce 300,000 tons of lithium, 220,000 tons of nickel, 610,000 tons of cathode materials, and 320,000 tons of anode materials, aiming to achieve sales of 41 trillion KRW.

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