American Resources Expands Battery Recycling Platform with New Shredding Line

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Mark Jensen discusses the expansion of American Resources Corp's battery recycling platform with a new shredding line.

American Resources Corp CEO Mark Jensen joined Steve Darling from Proactive to announce that the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Electrified Materials Corporation (EMCO), has procured its initial battery shredding line as part of a major expansion of its domestic battery recycling and critical mineral processing platform. The new system is designed to enhance EMCO’s ability to safely process lithium-ion batteries and produce conditioned battery feedstocks that can be supplied to ReElement Technologies Corporation for downstream separation, purification, and refining. Management described the addition as another important step toward building an integrated domestic supply chain for critical battery materials in the United States. Jensen explained that the battery shredding line complements EMCO’s existing capabilities in processing and conditioning recovered magnet materials, copper, aluminum, and ferrous metals sourced from end-of-life products and manufacturing scrap. The new battery processing capacity expands the company’s ability to manage end-of-life, off-warranty, and off-spec lithium-ion batteries through safe disposition, shredding, pre-processing, and conditioning…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Darling

Guest: Mark Jensen

Topics covered

• battery recycling
• critical minerals
• electric vehicles
• supply chain
• lithium-ion batteries

Keywords

• battery shredding
• recycling
• EMCO
• critical battery materials
• electric vehicles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Resources Corp, Electrified Materials Corporation, ReElement Technologies Corporation

Products: lithium-ion batteries, lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery

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