Electrive reports that Recyclus officials expect to be able to recovery around 8.300 tons of batteries in the plant's first year of commissioning and by 2025, to achieve its maximum potential.

They also suggested that the LiBatt plant will be able to process and recycle any type of lithium-ion cell, the process being aided by the liquid nitrogen tanks, which allow for continuous operations.

Robin Brundle, director and co-founder of Recyclus Group, said that "having completed the commissioning phase, we are now able to commence commercial operations which represents a significant step towards the realization of our planned processing rate."

As batteries are likely to keep flowing into the recycling site, a special storage unit was also installed, being able to hold onto as much as 100 tons of batteries, which will gradually be processed in the actual plant.