Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) and SK Battery America (SKBA) are expanding their collaboration to develop a closed-loop recycling pathway for battery manufacturing scrap generated at SKBA’s electric vehicle (EV) battery facilities in Commerce, Georgia.
Princeton NuEnergy’s battery recycling facility uses its Cathode-to-Cathode direct recycling process to recover and rejuvenate cathode materials. (Image: Princeton NuEnergy)
Under the planned collaboration, PNE will receive battery manufacturing scrap from SKBA. The companies are also exploring the development of a recycling facility near the manufacturing site to create a localized system for recovering and reusing battery materials.
The proposed facility would use PNE’s Cathode-to-Cathode direct recycling process to recover and rejuvenate cathode active material from manufacturing scrap.
Unlike conventional recycling methods that break cathode materials down into their constituent elements, the process is designed to preserve and rejuvenate the engineered cathode structure, allowing the recovered material to potentially be returned to battery manufacturing.
PNE was recently selected by the US Department of Energy to enter award negotiations for up to $50 million toward a proposed $110 million Cathode-to-Cathode rejuvenation facility in the US.
PNE and SKBA are continuing discussions regarding the technical and commercial framework for the collaboration. SK Battery America, a subsidiary of SK On, operates EV battery manufacturing facilities in Commerce with a combined annual production capacity of approximately 22 GWh.
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