Seval inaugurates a new production plant for the treatment of lithium-ion batteries at its headquarters in Colico (Lecco), the first step of an industrial plan worth over 30 million euros, partly covered by Pnrr funds, which also includes the construction of a similar hub in Balvano (Potenza), currently completed and awaiting testing.
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In the new plants, through Duesenfeld technology (without heat treatment), the batteries will be discharged, inerted, and ground. The goal is to obtain black mass, a cathode powder rich in lithium, cobalt, nickel: critical materials that can subsequently be recovered and reintroduced into production processes. The Colico and Balvano hubs will each be able to process 15,000 tons of lithium-ion batteries per year.
Seval, which already has 500 employees, nine production plants, a turnover of about 130 million euros, and a treatment capacity of 180,000 tons of waste per year, mainly WEEE, “aims to become one of the main European producers of black mass,” according to a statement.
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The company has been engaged for about twenty years in the treatment of various types of batteries; lithium-ion batteries – present from consumer electronics to electric cars – have proven to be the fastest-growing group in recent years, hence the idea to develop a dedicated recycling platform.
At the inauguration of the new Colico plant was also the Minister of the Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, demonstrating the government’s attention to a supply chain that, from the perspective of national technological and energy autonomy, is becoming increasingly strategic. The European Critical Raw Materials Act, after all, sets among its goals that by 2030 at least 25% of the annual consumption of critical raw materials in the European Union comes from waste recycling.
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