The Minister of Economy of the Government of Aragón, Eva Valle, has valued very positively the arrival of the battery solvent recycling plant that the Chinese company Shenghe is going to build in Pedrola. Aragon, in his opinion, sees its predominant role in the automotive industry reinforced.
This plant would complement the activity of the battery gigafactory in Figueruelas, although it will receive waste from other factories, as Eva Valle has clarified, who has highlighted this investment makes the autonomous community a «pioneering enclave in clean technologies linked precisely to the battery sector» reducing its environmental impact.
He also explained that the arrival of this service consolidates the Aragonese automotive sector and «ensures its survival in the medium term» in a context of «a radical transformation and a total paradigm shift around the world» with the commitment to electric vehicles.
100 JOBS IN PEDROLA
This investment, Shenghe’s first in Europe, will create up to 100 jobs in the start-up of a circular economy plant that will recycle the solvent N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), essential in battery manufacturing.
As the Minister explained, «this plant recovers the residue of this solvent from the batteries, purifies it in its plant and puts it back into the production process of any battery factory, not just the one that arrives». When it is operational in 2028 – work on the complex will begin in the coming months – it will process up to 100,000 tonnes of this waste per year.
