Recently, the ecological environment authority of Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, released the EIA public notice for the Wenshan scrapped vehicle and waste battery dismantling, recycling and reutilization project. The project involves a total investment of RMB 147.51 million, located in Matang Industrial Park, Wenshan High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan. It consists of one waste battery recycling workshop, one dismantling workshop, one warehouse, and supporting environmental facilities including solid waste collection and temporary storage. The business scope covers scrapped vehicle dismantling and recycling, recycled resource processing, and power LIB cascade utilization.

The South Korean government has begun work to establish a system that officially certifies the value of key minerals extracted from waste batteries, such as lithium and nickel, as recycled raw materials. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced on June 25 that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a pilot project on the battery recycled raw material production certification system at the President Hotel in Seoul, with six waste battery recycling companies and the Korea Environment Corporation participating. Through the pilot project, the government plans to verify the certification method in actual production processes before fully implementing the system in May next year. The battery recycled raw material production certification system is a scheme under which the government officially confirms that key battery materials, such as lithium, nickel and cobalt, produced by recycling waste batteries recovered from electric vehicles and other sources are recycled raw materials derived from waste resources. The certification will cover eight types of materials: lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate, manganese sulfate, graphite, mixed metal precipitate and cathode active materials.

Keeps BioPharma announced on June 24 that its subsidiary Battery Solutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Korean battery recycling company CIS Chemical to cooperate on the LFP waste battery recycling business. Under the agreement, Battery Solutions will handle pretreatment processes, including waste battery collection, discharging, dismantling and shredding. CIS Chemical will then be responsible for post-treatment processes to recover key valuable metals, such as lithium and iron phosphate, from black mass.

Recently, the local government released the EIA public notice for the waste power battery regeneration project. The project involves a total investment of RMB 137 million, located in Hangzhou Jiande High-tech Industrial Park. It consists of newly built dry process workshop, wet process workshop, comprehensive warehouse, and solid waste warehouse, adopting advanced domestic process technologies and equipping with discharging systems, pyrolysis furnaces, leaching kettles, impurity removal kettles, etc. Upon completion, it will achieve an annual processing capacity of 15,000 tons of waste power batteries and 10,000 tons of LFP battery black mass.

Recently, the media released the first public announcement on EIA for the annual 15,000-ton waste LIB recycling and reutilization expansion project. The project involves a total investment of RMB 50 million, located in Yinhe New District, Linyi, Shandong. It consists of a safe storage facility for waste LIBs and one waste LIB recycling and reutilization production line. Upon completion, it will achieve an annual processing capacity of 15,000 tons of waste LIB materials, recycling 12,461.55 tons of waste 3C LIB powder, waste LFP battery powder, waste NCM battery powder, and waste cell powder per year.

Recently, the local government released the public notice on the draft EIA report for the annual 55,000-ton waste new energy battery recycling and comprehensive utilization project. The project involves a total investment of RMB 1.176 billion, located in the Green New Energy Base of Taihe Economic Development Zone. It is constructed in two phases. Upon completion, it will achieve an annual processing capacity of 55,000 tons of waste new energy batteries. After Phase I, it will produce 1,058.59 tons of lithium carbonate and 6,431.06 tons of iron phosphate per year. After Phase II, it will produce 2,417.5 tons of cascade-utilized batteries, 19,997.40 tons of nickel sulfate, 6,665.80 tons of cobalt sulfate, and 4,223.12 tons of lithium carbonate per year.

Recently, the ecological environment authority released the public notice on the draft EIA report for the waste power battery recycling and resource utilization project (Phase I). The project involves a total investment of RMB 30 million, located in Ningxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Changsha, Hunan. It consists of one dismantling and pyrolysis production line for waste LIBs and separators. Upon completion, it will achieve an annual processing capacity of 10,000 tons of waste LIBs and separators, yielding 4,100 tons of lithium battery black mass and 2,590 tons of copper/aluminum materials per year.

[Secondary Lead Production Update] As of January 2026, the main part of the Phase IV technological transformation project of Zhejiang Tianneng Power Supply Materials (Changxing Heping Town) was completed, and the installation progress of core equipment exceeded 90%. The project possesses a complete waste lead-acid battery recycling and disposal industry chain within the province. Upon reaching full production, it will have an annual recycling capacity of 650,000 mt of waste lead-acid batteries, produce approximately 450,000 mt of secondary lead annually, and generate additional annual sales revenue of 3 billion yuan. Entering mid-June, the project's H2 production launch has become a focal point of industry attention.

According to the latest SMM data, the secondary lead industry faced worsening difficulties of high costs and losses, with the price spread between raw materials and finished products continuing to narrow, enterprise losses widening, and operating rates declining accordingly.

SMM May 5 News: 【Guangdong 40,000-ton waste power battery recycling project launched】Recently, the Huizhou Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment in Guangdong Province issued a public notice of project acceptance for the "Annual 40,000-ton Waste Power Battery Anode Graphite, Aluminum-Plastic Composite Film, and Separator Recycling Project" of a Guangdong company. According to the notice, the total investment is 116 million yuan, and the project site is located in Boluo County, Huizhou, Guangdong. The project will build an annual 40,000-ton waste power battery anode graphite, aluminum-plastic composite film, and separator recycling facility, regenerating 20,000 tons of waste battery anode graphite, 10,000 tons of aluminum-plastic film, and 10,000 tons of separator per year. 【Guiyang 120 million yuan lithium battery green recycling project launched】Recently, the Guiyang Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Guizhou Province released the first public participation announcement for the environmental impact assessment of a Guizhou company's "Guiyang Comprehensive Bonded Zone Waste Lithium Battery Green Recycling and High-Value Utilization Industrial Base Project". According to the announcement, total investment is 120 million yuan, and the site is located in the Guiyang Comprehensive Bonded Zone. The project will purchase three sets of equipment, and plans to build one waste lithium battery recycling and dismantling production line, one cathode and anode sheet crushing production line, and one echelon utilization production line, rapidly forming large-scale production capacity. 【Huai'an, Jiangsu: 30,000+ ton waste LFP battery comprehensive recycling project landed】Recently, the Huai'an Municipal People's Government in Jiangsu Province issued a notice regarding the proposed review of the environmental impact report for a Jiangsu company's "High-Value Comprehensive Recycling of Waste LFP Batteries and Scrap to Produce 10,000 mt/year Battery-Grade Lithium Carbonate Project". Currently, the project will construct one dismantling and crushing line for retired LFP battery cells, one dismantling and crushing line for scrap LFP battery cells and LFP cathode sheets, and one hydrometallurgical lithium extraction line for black mass. 【Tianjin Jinghai adds 10,000-ton waste LFP battery processing project】Recently, the Administrative Approval Bureau of Jinghai District, Tianjin, issued a notice on the acceptance of the environmental impact report for a Tianjin company's "LFP Battery Material Deep Processing Project". According to the notice, the company plans to invest 120.1 million yuan to build the "LFP Battery Material Deep Processing Project", purchasing one crushing and sorting line and LFP mixed black mass deep processing equipment. It will mainly crush and sort externally purchased waste LFP batteries, and further utilize part of the LFP mixed black mass obtained from crushing and sorting. It will add an annual waste LFP battery processing capacity of 10,000 tons and an LFP mixed black mass processing capacity of 5,000 tons. 【Wenzhou, Zhejiang: 5,000-ton waste power battery dismantling and standardized echelon project landed】Recently, the Longwan District People's Government of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, published an environmental impact assessment notice for a Zhejiang company's "Waste Power Battery Dismantling and Standardized Echelon Utilization Project". According to the notice, the company's project is located in the Wenzhou Bay New Energy Technology Industrial Park. The project will utilize existing factory buildings to set up one module and pack assembly line and two used lithium battery pack physical dismantling lines, without involving cell disassembly. Upon completion, th