Redwood Companions with Ultium Cells

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At Redwood, our course of entails sourcing end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap in addition to uncooked supplies after which recycling, refining, and remanufacturing these feedstocks into essential battery supplies for North American cell producers at gigafactory-scale.

Redwood is now working with Ultium Cells LLC—the joint battery cell manufacturing enterprise between Common Motors and LG Vitality Resolution— to recycle manufacturing scrap from each their Warren, Ohio and Spring Hill, Tennessee amenities. Supplies to be recycled embody cathode and anode materials in addition to cell scrap.

Ultium Cells’ two amenities are every 2.8 million-square-feet operations that anticipate to provide greater than 80 GWh mixed of battery cells yearly, with Redwood receiving the vast majority of the scrap from its manufacturing course of. Ultium is already transport materials from Gigafactories in Ohio and Tennessee and the corporate has a 3rd facility beneath development in Michigan. With this newest collaboration, Redwood now has contracts with most of North America’s battery cell producers.

Regardless of tremendously environment friendly manufacturing charges, cell manufacturing nonetheless experiences a 5-10% scrap charge on common. This equates to every day truckloads full of fabric, and ~10,000 tons of fabric yearly, for Redwood to recycle and remanufacture into essential battery parts for cell manufacturing.

Redwood is redefining sustainability in battery materials manufacturing at our Northern Nevada campus. In comparison with conventional strategies of processing mined ore into battery-grade supplies, our strategy is considerably extra sustainable. Redwood makes use of 80% much less vitality, generates 70% much less CO2 emissions, and requires 80% much less water, setting new requirements in useful resource effectivity.

Our hydrometallurgy facility, the primary commercial-scale nickel “mine” to open in america in a decade, not solely recycles battery manufacturing scrap into uncooked nickel and cobalt but in addition stands as the one commercial-scale supply of lithium provide to return on-line within the U.S. in many years. In contrast to conventional mining initiatives that always take over a decade to change into operational, we constructed and activated our facility in lower than 1 / 4 of the time.

In response to Stanford, our course of achieves at the least 40% fewer emissions than different recyclers. What’s extra—it’s scalable. We will course of over 40,000 metric tons (about 15-20 GWh) yearly and are increasing by the day.

As a part of the Superior Know-how Automobiles Manufacturing Mortgage Program, Ultium Cells and Redwood have been each chosen by the Division of Vitality’s (DOE) Mortgage Packages Workplace (LPO) to jumpstart essential battery supplies and cell manufacturing domestically.

Our collective targets are paramount in constructing America’s battery provide chain and supporting a swift, sustainable transition to electrical automobiles and a clear vitality economic system. As automakers and cell producers proceed to ramp up home battery manufacturing, Redwood stands able to assist this development with our extremely sustainable and scalable battery supplies course of.

Press launch from Redwood Supplies.