As the NEV market develops, Malaysia is accelerating the establishment of a power battery recycling system. MARii estimates that by 2050, the country will need to recycle or dispose of 870,000 EV batteries. Currently, Malaysia has established a relevant regulatory framework and introduced the first EV battery passport standard in ASEAN (MS 2818). Meanwhile, Econili Battery New Energy has completed construction of a 24,000 mt/year power battery recycling project and plans to further expand its recycling capacity.

SMM May 28 News:This week (May 22–29), China's waste lithium battery recycling sector witnessed a wave of project public announcements and launches, spanning more than ten provinces and cities including Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Tianjin, Zhejiang, and Hubei.

The Bohai New Area Administrative Committee and Huanghua Municipal People's Government of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, released a notice on the proposed approval of the environmental impact report for a Hebei company’s new energy vehicle power battery material processing and echelon utilization and resource center project. The total investment is 500 million yuan, and the location is in the Lingang Economic and Technological Development Zone. Construction will include a combined dismantling and black mass workshop, a concentration and crystallization workshop, one raw material warehouse, one hazardous waste room, a concentrated sulfuric acid pump area, and storage tank area. The project will build one dismantling and echelon utilization line,

This week (May 22–29), the scrap lithium battery recycling sector nationwide saw a wave of project announcements and implementations, involving more than ten provinces and cities including Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Tianjin, Zhejiang, and Hubei. The newly added processing capacity totaled over 200,000 mt/year, covering multiple segments such as second-life application, dismantling and crushing, lithium extraction from black mass, and cathode material repair. The industry's capacity expansion entered an acceleration phase.

[Waste Lead-Acid Battery Collection Enterprise Updates] Recently, the Xinye Branch of the Nanyang Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau in Henan Province officially approved the Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the waste lead-acid battery collection, storage, and transfer project of Nanyang Zhongjie Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (Wan Xin Huan Shen [2026] No. 8). The project will construct a comprehensive workshop integrating weighing, loading and unloading, and storage, with designated areas for intact batteries, dedicated storage rooms for damaged batteries, and temporary hazardous waste storage rooms, with a designed annual collection and transfer capacity of 5,000 mt of waste lead-acid batteries.

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[Waste Lead-Acid Battery Market Dynamics] It was reported that one waste lead-acid battery collection and storage entity has been established in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, namely Zhangye Mingcheng Waste Battery Recycling Co., Ltd., which has obtained the Hazardous Waste Operating License issued by the Department of Ecology and Environment of Gansu Province. The approved operating method and category is the collection (HW31, 900-52) of waste lead-acid batteries, with an operating capacity of 2,000 mt/year. A total of 4 waste lead-acid battery collection sites have been set up across the city.

Recently, the Ecological Environment Branch of Zaozhuang High-tech Zone approved the environmental impact assessment documents for the new ultra-fast charging battery industrialization project of Shandong Xinbang New Energy Co., Ltd., giving the green light for construction. The project plans to construct electrode production workshops, cell workshops, formation and capacity grading workshops, module workshops, comprehensive warehouses, hazardous waste warehouses, a wastewater treatment station, and other supporting facilities. The main products will be energy storage battery packs and power batteries for new energy vehicles. The overall plant plans to include 2 ESS production lines, 3 BEV production lines, and 8 PACK production lines, with a planned total capacity of approximately 52 GWh.

[Secondary Lead Production Update] It was reported that a large secondary lead smelter in east China originally planned to resume production at the end of April, but due to market trends and the renewal of its hazardous waste operating license, the production resumption date is expected to be postponed to late May.

Vietnam is strengthening enforcement and environmental regulations in the lead recycling industry, introducing stricter technology standards that require cleaner, low-emission circular processes and tighter hazardous waste control under Circular 09/2026/TT-BNNMT. Authorities have also taken legal action against operators involved in serious pollution cases, including in Hưng Yên, while small-scale facilities in areas such as Đông Mai (Văn Lâm) are being required to relocate to industrial zones with centralized waste treatment systems.