Van Dyk to distribute RET battery recycling technology in North America
Reckelberg Environmental Technologies’ innovations include the Impact Reactor, which recovers the highest quality black mass from batteries
Van Dyk Recycling Solutions has signed a contract to distribute lithium-ion battery recycling equipment from Reckelberg Environmental Technologies (RET). Germany-based RET has developed an effective process for safely recovering the valuable materials in batteries with the highest yield and purities.
"RET's mission is to further develop and supply market leading technologies and solutions for battery recycling to enable its customers to tackle one of the biggest problems of the upcoming years in regards to recycling," says Claas Reckelberg, CEO of RET.
Following increased production and popularity of the devices and cars using these rechargeable batteries, RET expects the number of used batteries, especially EV batteries, for recycling to increase over the next five-to-ten years.
A unique system to recover high quality materials
RET is specialized in battery recycling and has core equipment components for all major process steps: electrical discharging, vacuum drying, and mechanical separation. What makes the system unique, says the company, is the key component for the mechanical treatment, what RET calls the Impact Reactor.
The Impact Reactor allows a direct recovery of the highest quality black mass at one central point after the vacuum drying. A completely capsuled system with extensive exhaust-gas treatment and filter-systems guarantees the fulfillment of all effective and upcoming health, safety, and emission requirements.
"RET is at the forefront of battery recycling in Europe," says Brian Schellati, director of business development for Van Dyk Recycling Solutions. "As electric vehicles become more popular in North America, we will need effective solutions for recycling their batteries. The materials we can separate in these large car batteries have very high value, meaning potentially great ROI for these operations. Van Dyk will be well positioned to provide sortation strategies to this market as RET has the highest recovery of the valuable black mass that we have seen."
To create turnkey solutions, Van Dyk will turn to its other trusted equipment suppliers for conveyors, air separation tables, zig-zag sifters, screens, and magnets.
