Ebbw Vale (Rassau) – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining
operating- Status
- operating
Products: Other unwrought lead and lead alloys (PbCa, PbSn, bullion lead)
The plant breaks spent lead-acid batteries, desulphurises the paste, smelts it in two rotary furnaces into crude lead and refines it in kettles into soft lead and Pb-Sb and Pb-Sn alloys. The company belongs to the International Metal Industries (IMI) group.
Verified at source:
- B Company website – Envirowales: Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Facility (envirowales.com)
- B Company website – Envirowales: Recycling Process Overview
- B Company website – Envirowales: Products
- B Companies House – ENVIROWALES LIMITED (04296277), company profile
- B EEA, Industrial Reporting under the IED and E-PRTR, version 16, file “F6_1_IED_Installations.csv” – “Rassau Recycling Facility” installation (UK, last reporting year 2019)