Rocklink India sets-up battery, rare earth recycling facility in Uttar Pradesh

Rocklink India has set-up its first integrated recycling facility in India at the UPSIDC Industrial Area in Sikandrabad, Uttar Pradesh. Rocklink India said its new facility provides recycling capabilities to process lithium-ion batteries, rare earth magnets, and metal-bearing industrial waste, to help India build its system for essential material recovery and circular supply chains.

The facility includes an initial lithium-ion battery recycling capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year, along with rare earth magnet dismantling and processing operations of 60 tonnes per month. The company will complete its rare earth chloride processing line, which has a production capacity of 1,500 tonnes per year, in Q1 2026 to enhance its rare earth processing capabilities.

Leonard Alexander Ansorge, Director of Rocklink India, said, “With capabilities to process lithium-ion batteries and rare earth magnets, we aim to support the development of a circular ecosystem for critical raw materials that are essential to electric mobility, renewable energy systems, and advanced manufacturing.”

The company’s EPR-registered lithium-ion battery recycling plant is designed to process 95 different types of pre- and post-consumer battery scrap materials.

Rocklink India said that the technology would enable the facility to process multiple battery formats, sizes, and cell chemistries while capturing volatile organic compounds through an encapsulated process and advanced waste gas treatment systems. The recycling process achieves over 98% recovery efficiency for metals such as aluminium, copper, and iron, while producing high-purity black mass suitable for further refining.

In addition to recycling, the company plans to integrate battery refurbishment operations into the facility. This will enable the safe reuse of viable battery cells through international standards for testing, balancing, and pack manufacturing, extending battery life cycles and improving resource efficiency.

Building a Rare Earth Magnet Recycling Facility

The facility also includes dedicated capabilities for rare earth magnet recycling, covering permanent magnet alloys such as NdFeB, SmCo, and AlNiCo, which are commonly used in electric motors, generators, and industrial equipment. Semi-automated dismantling lines will process magnet-containing assemblies into homogeneous batches, improving traceability and recycling efficiency.