Completion Ceremony of Gunsan 1st Factory on the 9th: Annual Production of 5,000 Tons of 'Black Mass'
DS Danseok Co., Ltd., a precision chemical development company leading global resource circulation, held the completion ceremony for the LIB (Lithium Ion Battery) recycling Gunsan Plant 1 located in Gunsan City, Jeonbuk, on the 9th, taking a step closer to the secondary battery business.
DS Danseok Co., Ltd. is a specialized biodiesel and recycling company focused on resource circulation. It extracted recycled lead (recycled lead ingots) from waste lead-acid batteries and sold them to battery manufacturers. The completed LIB recycling plant in Gunsan will serve as an outpost for lithium-ion battery recycling.
About 150 people attended the event, including Kang Im-jun, Mayor of Gunsan, Shin Young-dae, Member of the National Assembly, Kim Young-il, Chairman of the Gunsan City Council, and executives from related organizations and companies.
On the 9th, the completion ceremony of DS Danseok's Gunsan Plant No. 1 was held. It is a lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling plant that will produce 5,000 tons of black mass annually. [Photo by Gunsan City]
At DS Danseok Co., Ltd.'s Gunsan Plant 1, spent lithium-ion batteries undergo discharge → module and pack separation → crushing → separation processes to recover a black powder called black mass (active material, Black Mass), which contains high value-added materials such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt.
The total investment scale is approximately 8 billion KRW, and the plant was completed over 11 months from May last year to March. It covers an area of 2,000㎡ (604 pyeong) and includes factory buildings, office buildings, and laboratory buildings.
The plant is a pre-processing facility that annually dismantles and crushes about 8,000 tons of waste LIBs to finely grind the material into 5,000 tons of black mass per year. Black mass is used as battery material by secondary battery (battery) manufacturers.
The new employment scale is about 40 people. Due to the recent increase in electric vehicles and the carbon neutrality trend, the demand for lithium-ion batteries is rapidly increasing, and plans are in place to accelerate eco-friendly investments.
Kang Im-jun, Mayor of Gunsan, said, "I sincerely congratulate DS Danseok Co., Ltd. on the completion of the lithium-ion battery recycling plant, which is enhancing product and corporate value through continuous quality improvement and steady investment in new technologies," adding, "We look forward to the development of the secondary battery industry and the revitalization of the local economy."
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