Posco Holdings has announced the completion of its secondary battery recycling plant in Brzeg Dolny The Poland Legnica Sourcing Centre (PLSC) will process 7,000 tonnes of European-sourced used batteries to produce black mass This product will then be shipped to Posco HY Clean Metal a joint venture set up by Posco and Huayou Cobalt Co. The new plant will also cooperate with South Korean battery company SungEel Hitech Co The recently completed facility will… Plant to collect and disassemble battery scrap and used batteries in Europe and produce 7,000 tons of black mass per year Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team of POSCO Holdings said “Posco Holdings will continue ESG management by expanding the recycling business.” POSCO Holdings completed the construction of a secondary battery recycling plant PLSC in Brzeg Dolny The opening ceremony was attended by Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team of POSCO Holdings Byeong-og Yoo Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team of POSCO Holdings said “The recycling business is pivotal to the virtuous cycle economy of eco-friendly batteries at the core of the secondary battery material business of the POSCO Group We will take the lead in corporate social responsibility and secure competitiveness for secondary battery raw materials by consistently expanding the recycling business” POSCO Holdings built the secondary battery recycling subsidiary PLSC in March last year in response to the growing secondary battery recycling market with the increase in electric vehicles and the demands of governments and major customers around the world to mandate the use of recycled materials for secondary batteries The company cooperates with SungEel HiTech a Korean company with proprietary technology for recycling secondary batteries the POSCO Group has been investing and developing technologies for lithium and nickel core raw materials for secondary batteries It plans to achieve sales of 41 trillion won by building a stable secondary material value chain by 2030 a secondary battery recycling plant in Brzeg Dolny ▲ POSCO Holdings held an opening ceremony of a secondary battery recycling plant PLSC in Brzeg Dolny on August 25.(From left to right: SungEel HiTech Poland Managing Director Hyo-sung Youn POSCO Holdings Head of the Green Materials & Energy Business Team Byeong-og Yoo Poviart Boubowski Governor Janusz Zdziarski Deputy Mayor of Brzek Dolny Artur Michałek POSCO Holdings signs MOU with India’s Greenko over hydrogen biz POSCO starts to design the HyREX demonstration plant POSCO expands cooperation with global iron ore supplier Vale for low-carbon steel raw material business Intranet Artur Błażejewski and his team had the pleasure of visiting the PCC Rokita chemical plant in Brzeg Dolny at the end of last year The visit included a presentation of the plant production lines and Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (Research and Development Center) A conversation with PCC Rokita CEO Wiesław Klimkowski about the possibility of cooperation between one of the largest chemical manufacturers in Lower Silesia and our university was an important part of the visit This resulted in representatives of PCC Rokita visiting the University of Wrocław last week The university hosted the following guests: Head of Centrum Badań i Rozwoju (Research and Development Center) dr Igor Korczagin Kompleks Chemii Fosforu (Phosphorus Chemistry Complex) Director dr Łukasz Górecki and Badania i Rozwój (Research and Development) Expert dr inż Our guests were given a tour of the Faculty of Chemistry and the Faculty of Biotechnology Thanks to the hospitality of the deans and our hosts dr hab Jerzy Gubernator most of the laboratories and research equipment available to both Faculties were available for viewing We had the opportunity to talk to laboratory executives about the research our scientists are conducting and about the possibilities for commercial research and performing industry expertise and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory attracted great interest The Faculty of Biotechnology was the site of a discussion on the extremely important topic of wastewater decontamination During the conversation between PCC Rokita representatives and Vice-Dean for Innovation and Development and Head of Centre for Technology Transfer many topics related to joint research and scientific projects and technology transfer were discussed An extremely important topic of discussion concerned our students and graduates There were proposals for student internships and practical training as well as employment opportunities for our graduates at PCC Rokita There is no doubt that there is chemistry between PCC Rokita and the University of Wrocław and this will soon result in collaboration If you happen to have ideas and proposals for joint ventures we invite you to the Centre for Technology Transfer (CTT) at the University of Wrocław where you will be assisted in contacting representatives of PCC Rokita We are grateful to the representatives of PCC Rokita for the visit as well as to our hosts from the Faculties of Chemistry and Biotechnology for allowing us to explore the laboratories and for the extremely interesting and inspiring conversations Translated by Wiktoria Łapka (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the 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