A new lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Eloy is expected to employ 110 production workers when it opens next year.
The Eloy facility will process lithium-ion batteries that have reached the end of their service life, as well as battery manufacturing scrap, with additional services including disassembly, sorting, warehousing and diagnostic testing, says Indianapolis-based Heritage Battery Recycling, part of Cirba Solutions.
This facility is expected to launch operations by mid-2023 and process enough battery material to support 50,000 EVs annually. Eloy is in Pinal County and straddles Interstate 10 about 40 miles north of Tucson.
The plant will extract nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium that will serve as a raw material feedstock to provide battery-grade salts for new cathode and battery manufacturing, the company said.
