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1. AUSTRALIAN BATTERY MANUFACTURING AND RECYCLING SUMMIT |
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Partnering with Spire Events, an experienced mining and energy conference and expo organiser, ABRI is proud to announce the Australian Battery Recycling and Manufacturing Summit. This is Australia’s first event dedicated to a battery circular economy showcasing Australia’s industry and working on solutions so Australia is ready at scale to manage the electrification transition.
Battery recycling is the environmental solution to meeting the world’s critical minerals needs and is a core pillar to government plans to grow Australia into a critical minerals’ powerhouse, electrify transport and reduce Australia’s emissions.
Australian Battery Recycling and Manufacturing Summit provides new partnership and business opportunities through presentation opportunities, panel discussions, networking drinks and event sponsorship options.
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2. CAPITALISING ON AUSTRALIA’S CRITICAL MINERALS STRENGTHS – SUPPORTING THE BATTERY SECTOR |
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Industry development strategy and policy initiatives are being prioritised to support Australia’s battery sector and build on its critical minerals strengths:
- The Australian Government has announced close to A$50 million in grants to support critical minerals projects to build Australian battery manufacturing and future industries.
- The Queensland Government has released the new-industry development strategy in a decarbonising global economy which includes a focus on battery industry development, critical minerals and a circular economy.
- The Australian Government is developing the Powering Australia Growth Centre to grow Australia’s renewables technologies industry and establish Australia as a leader in renewables technologies. A grant of up to A$14 million is available for Australian industry organisations, research institutions and partnerships with expertise in renewable technology.
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3. BATTERY RECYCLING IS DRIVING INNOVATION AND SAFETY ACROSS THE LOGISTICS CHAIN |
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The battery circular economy and the drive to recover critial minerals from batteries is driving creative solutions to support battery reverse logistics. Examples of interest include:
- Comau, an Italian company specialising in industrial automation, has announced it is renewing its participation in the EU Flex-BD project which is a robotics system that automates dismantling of EV batteries. Comau is expanding the project scope to cover second life repurposing of EV batteries.
- Alkaline, carbon neutral battery company – Better Battery Company – has launched a new line of products where the packaging has the dual function of delivery and providing a container for returning the batteries for recycling.
- Apple, as part of its commitment to use 100% recycled cobalt in its batteries, is using a disassembly robot to separate batteries from other components when breaking down an iPhone. Other technology is helping safely disassemble computers and iPad and maximise resource recovery. Batteries are often embedded in other products so understanding how to separate and recover all components is critical to a circular economy.
- A specialist fire protection solution for warehousing lithium batteries has been awarded second in the logistics and transport category of the materialfluss readers’ choice for product of the year 2023.
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4. BATTERY RECYCLING, MANUFACTURING AND MINING SECTORS – COLLABORATION TO CREATE A BATTERY CIRCULAR ECONOMY |
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The bringing together of expertise across battery recycling, manufacturing and mining sectors continues at pace. Announcements over the past month include:
- Cirba Solutions (battery recycling) and Volta Energy Technologies (battery and energy storage technologies) have announced a partnership to focus on a closed loop system for batteries which will focus on increasing the percentage of recycled materials in batteries
- Glencore (mining) and Li-cycle (battery recycling) have signed a letter of intent to undertake a joint feasibility study and potentially develop a project to product battery grade products from used batteries. The project would produce critical battery materials, including nickel, cobalt and lithium with a capacity of 50,000 to 70,000 tonnes of black mass per year. The project will draw on Li-cycle’s technology and repurpose part of Glencore’s existing asset base in Italy.
- Porsche and Norsk Hydro have signed an agreement to support decarbonisation of the sports car supply chain. Norsk will supply aluminium with a low carbon footprint targeting CO2 neutrality in 2030. Also part of the agreement is investigating how to build efficient closed loop solutions for Porsche’s EV batteries.
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5. JOIN ABRI AND BE PART OF THE AUSTRALIAN BATTERY RECYCLING INDUSTRY |
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Join ABRI for a range of benefits and insights into Australia’s rapidly growing battery recycling and reuse industry:
- Workshops – Presentations and policy discussions from leading industry players and research institutions
- Policy and advocacy – working with governments on a national waste tracking system
- News – member bulletins on key regulatory and other events, general bulletins on industry news
- Networking – opportunities to meet with companies across the battery supply chain to create industry wide opportunities
- Collaboration with Australian Battery Industry Association on industry issues e.g. lithium ion battery safety
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