{"id":1178205,"date":"2020-04-15T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1020321"},"modified":"2020-04-15T08:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:15:19","slug":"american-manganese-to-work-with-voltabox-on-recycling-li-ion-batteries-from-industrial-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1178205","title":{"rendered":"American Manganese to work with Voltabox on recycling li-ion batteries from industrial applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Manganese (TSXV: AMY) announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Voltabox of Texas to work on end-of-life lithium-ion batteries for commercial-scale recycling of cathode materials using AMY&#8217;s RecycLiCo patented process.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Besides working with Voltabox, American Manganese is developing its first three-tonne-per-day commercial demonstration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/american-manganese-moves-forward-plans-recycle-lithium-ion-battery-materials\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"recycling facility (opens in a new tab)\">recycling facility<\/a> for cathode scrap material originating from lithium-ion battery manufacturing waste <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The RecycLiCo process provides a closed-loop recycling solution that, according to AMY, generates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/american-manganeses-cathode-recycling-process-yields-high-purity-nickel-cobalt-hydroxide\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"high recovery and purity rates (opens in a new tab)\">high recovery and purity rates<\/a> of battery materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese, cobalt, and aluminium.<\/p>\n<p>Voltabox is interested in recycling such materials because its main business is providing systems for e-mobility in industrial applications using custom configurations of lithium-ion battery technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoltabox is focused on managing the total lifecycle of our lithium-ion programs from initial manufacturing through second-use applications and eventually to end of life. A key part of this approach is the responsible disposal of spent battery cells, modules, and systems,\u201d&nbsp; Sam Olson, CEO of the Texas-based company, said in a media statement. \u201cWe look forward to working with American Manganese to ensure the proper recycling of our lithium-ion components that have reached the end of their service life.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voltabox wants a recycling solution for its end-of-life battery system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1016,369,2857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178205"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178311,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178205\/revisions\/1178311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}