Ecobat completes lithium recycling sale

Ecobat said on Wednesday it had closed the sale of its lithium recycling business, completing the transfer of its lithium-ion battery recycling operations and assets in Casa Grande, Arizona. The Dallas-based company did not disclose the buyer or the financial terms in the announcement. The deal removes the Arizona lithium recycling footprint from Ecobat’s portfolio, according to the company’s statement. Ecobat described itself as a global battery recycling and resource recovery company. ### Which assets changed hands in Arizona? Casa Grande, Arizona, was the center of the transaction. Ecobat said the sale covered its lithium-ion battery recycling operations and assets there, finalizing the divestment of that business. The company’s Arizona site page says the facility opened in 2023 and processes end-of-life lithium-ion batteries through diagnostics, sorting, shredding and material separation to produce black mass containing battery materials. (prnewswire.com) Ecobat’s lithium recycling business had been built around processing end-of-life, damaged and production-scrap lithium-ion batteries into black mass and other recyclable streams. On its lithium services page, the company says those materials include nickel, cobalt and lithium recovered from battery feedstock. ### Was this Arizona plant part of a larger lithium buildout? April 2024 was the commissioning date Ecobat previously gave for the Casa Grande plant. (prnewswire.com) In a March 2025 release, the company said Casa Grande was one of three fully operational lithium recycling plants it had brought online within 12 months, alongside facilities in Hettstedt, Germany, and Darlaston in England. That release said the Arizona plant was intended to support the United States’ emerging lithium-ion battery recycling infrastructure. (ecobat.com) Ecobat’s current lithium services page still describes a three-plant lithium footprint in the United States and Europe, naming Casa Grande, Hettstedt and Birmingham, England. Wednesday’s sale announcement indicates that footprint has now changed, at least in Arizona, with the Casa Grande operations transferred out of Ecobat’s ownership. ### How does this fit with Ecobat’s recent asset sales? Ecobat’s news page shows the Arizona transaction follows a series of divestments across other parts of the group. (prnewswire.com) The company has also posted notices on completed sales involving Germany and Austria operations to Clarios, U.K. operations to funds advised by Splitstone Capital LLP, French lead operations to Campine, Italian business to Haiki + S.p.A., and an Arizona anode manufacturing business to Inppamet Ltda. (ecobat.com) September 2, 2025, was the date of Ecobat’s announced sale of its Arizona anode manufacturing business to Inppamet Ltda. In that earlier release, Chief Executive Tom Slabe said divesting the asset would streamline Ecobat’s portfolio and keep the company focused on core recycling operations. ### Did Ecobat identify the buyer this time? Ecobat’s September 2, 2026 announcement, as carried by PR Newswire and syndicated by Yahoo Finance, says the sale has closed but does not name the buyer in the text available through those sources. (ecobat.com) A separate market report citing the company’s release identified the buyer as Chile-based Inppamet Ltda., but Ecobat’s own announcement available here did not provide that detail. (prnewswire.com) Financial terms were also not disclosed. The company did not say whether any transition arrangements, supply agreements or service contracts accompanied the asset transfer. ### What comes next for the remaining lithium operations? Ecobat’s website continues to advertise lithium-ion recycling services and still lists facilities in Germany and England. The company says those plants are part of the first phase of its lithium recycling footprint and are sized to serve their markets for the next several years. (prnewswire.com) The next concrete update is likely to appear on Ecobat’s news page or lithium services pages, where the company has posted prior transaction notices and operating-footprint details. (prnewswire.com) As of Wednesday, those pages still referenced the broader lithium network even after the Arizona sale closed. (ecobat.com 1) (ecobat.com 2)