Weekly Recap: Ehime battery-recycling plants and Tesla cathode supplier

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (TSE:5713) opened two Ehime battery—recycling plants processing about 10,000 t/yr of LIB black mass using pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy to recover Ni, Co, Li and Cu, and is named among Tesla’s cathode material suppliers as Tesla eyes an in—house Texas cathode pl…