Fortum Battery Recycling
Finland's Fortum runs one of Europe's most advanced recycling loops, taking black mass through a hydrometallurgical plant at Harjavalta and recovering more than 95% of its metals as battery-grade chemicals. The EU named the site a Strategic Project in 2025.
Profile
Fortum Battery Recycling is the battery-recycling unit of Fortum, a Nordic clean-energy company. It provides recycling solutions for lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles, industrial applications and energy storage, focused on the European market.
The company recovers critical materials from spent batteries using low-emission, sustainable processes, and operates battery-material recycling capacity in Finland. It works in partnership with other recyclers, including Hydrovolt, to source and process material such as black mass.
Fortum sits in the recycling tier of the European battery supply chain, aligned with its parent's clean-energy and circular-economy focus.
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