TES, a Singapore-based provider of information technology life cycle services, has agreed to a deal that secures the future of a 10,000-square-meter (approximately 110,000-square-feet) recycling facility in the Port of Rotterdam.
The facility, located adjacent to the waterways of the Port of Rotterdam and with an option to extend onto a neighboring plot that will increase the site to more than 40,000 square meters (about 430,000 square feet), already has a basic waste license to receive, store and forward lithium-ion batteries and to manage electric vehicle (EV) batteries and battery production scrap in addition to a license to shred alkaline batteries.
According to a news release from TES, the site extension is planned to be fully operational by late 2022 and will be the first lithium-ion battery recycling plant in the Netherlands. The company says the site will be a good addition to its two other lithium-ion battery recycling facilities in Grenoble, France, and Singapore. “We are working not only towards a net-zero CO2 emission port and industry in 2050 but also looking at ways to make the industry more circular,” says Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam. “Therefore, besides working on projects regarding, for instance, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, it is important to take significant steps to establish circular production processes. The TES project in Rotterdam is exactly that. This could very well become the largest European facility for recycling batteries from electric cars.”
URL: https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/tes-plans-build-electric-vehicle-battery-recycling-plant-rotterdam/
