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A new battery shredding plant is to be built in southern Germany.
(Photo: Bloomberg)
The German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz relies on Australian expertise when it comes to battery recycling. As the Australian company Neometals announced on Wednesday, its joint venture Primobius with the German engineering company SMS Group will build a battery crushing plant for the Swabians in southern Germany.
The plant will deliver the shredded battery material to the Mercedes recycling plant LIB, where materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese will be recovered.
The recycled rare earths will then be used in the production of 50,000 battery modules that will be installed in new Mercedes vehicles.
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