New lithium-ion battery recycling plant planned for Pinal County

* The company announced that the new facility will be located in Casa Grande and is Ecobat’s third lithium-ion battery recycling facility.
* bring 60 new jobs to the area.
* Operations are expected to start in the third quarter of 2023.
* Ecobat said it will repurpose lithium-ion batteries that are reaching the end of their life through diagnostics, sorting, shredding and material separation to produce a “concentrated black mass containing the valuable materials in lithium-ion batteries.”