Piekary Śląskie – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining
operating- Status
- operating
Spent batteries are separated into electrolyte, lead paste, metallic fraction and plastics; the paste and metallic fraction are smelted in four furnaces into crude lead, which is refined into lead and lead alloys.
Verified at source:
- B Company website – Recycling process: battery separation, smelting in furnaces, lead refining (orzel-bialy.com.pl)
- A Orzeł Biały S.A. – Management Board Report on the Operations of the Orzeł Biały Capital Group for 2025 (consolidated annual report)
- B EEA, Industrial Reporting under the IED and E-PRTR, wersja 16 (2007–2024), plik „F6_1_IED_Installations.csv” (User friendly .csv files)