Learn the importance of “Black Mass” on episode 231 of The Green Insider. Hear Ajay Kochhar, President/CEO and Co-Founder of Li-Cycle Corp. discuss lithium-ion battery recycling. This story is the true definition of a circular economy.
Besides for Black Mass you will learn about:
Spoke and hub sites
Scrubbing scraps to blend with new products
Recovering reuseable materials from used batteries
How to reintroduce materials into the battery supply chain
Metals we talk about are lithium and manganese carbonate, plus cobalt and nickel sulphate.
About Ajay Kochhar
Ajay Kochhar is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Li-Cycle, a leading global lithium-ion battery resource recovery company. Before founding Li-Cycle in 2016, Ajay gained extensive technology and project development experience through progressive roles with Hatch’s industrial cleantech and advisory practices. While working in that space, he garnered in-depth engineering and project management experience through clean technology development in the lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, gold, lead, zinc, molybdenum, and rare earth metals industries. His technical expertise spans the entire project lifecycle, from conceptual and pre-feasibility studies to construction and commissioning.
About Li-Cycle
Li-Cycle (NYSE: LICY) is a leading global lithium-ion battery resource recovery company and North America’s largest pure-play lithium-ion battery recycler, with a rapidly growing presence across Europe. Established in 2016, and with major customers and partners around the world, Li-Cycle is on a mission to recover critical battery-grade materials to create a domestic closed-loop battery supply chain for a clean energy future.
The Company leverages its innovative, sustainable, and patent-protected Spoke & Hub Technologies™ to provide a safe, scalable, customer-centric solution to recycle all different types of lithium-ion batteries. At its Spokes, or pre-processing facilities, the Company recycles battery manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries to produce black mass, a powder-like substance which contains a number of valuable metals, including lithium, nickel, and cobalt. At Li-Cycle’s Hubs, or post-processing facilities, black mass is processed to produce critical battery-grade materials, including lithium carbonate, nickel sulphate, and cobalt sulphate.
