Li-Cycle
Li-Cycle operates a North American battery recycling network on a spoke-and-hub model, shredding batteries into black mass at spoke plants for refining at a central hub. It is part of Glencore.
Profile
Li-Cycle is a lithium-ion battery recycling company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and operating across North America. It specialises in recovering critical materials from spent batteries and manufacturing scrap.
The company uses a two-stage process: distributed "Spoke" facilities that mechanically process batteries into an intermediate product known as black mass, and a centralised "Hub" designed to refine that black mass back into battery-grade materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt.
Li-Cycle is publicly listed and has pursued recycling capacity across the US, Canada and Europe, positioning itself within the growing battery-recycling and circular-supply-chain sector.
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