American Battery Technology Co.'s Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Plant is set to open in Fernley during 2023. The battery recycling project is huge, with a 100,000 square-foot floor plan. The project is valued at $30 million, according to Recycling Today.
The plant would start recycling 20,000 metric tons of lithium-ion batteries per year, before scaling up to handling 100,000 metric tons annually. The latter amount alone would match the number of lithium-ion batteries that were recycled in all of 2018 globally, according to London-based Circular Energy Storage.
Aqua Metals has announced plans for a recycling campus in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). The company says it will be designed to process more than 20 million pounds of lithium-ion battery material each year.
Redwood Materials, which was founded in 2017, also recycles lithium-ion batteries in Northern Nevada and is in the midst of a significant expansion.