Leading Taiwanese lead recycler ACME Metal Enterprise and Ace Green Recycling, Inc., a leading supplier of environmentally friendly battery recycling technology solutions, has announced an expanded lead battery recycling license agreement. Since 2024, ACME has been processing batteries in its Taiwan factory using Ace’s environmentally friendly GREENLEAD® recycling technology, a completely electric process that emits no Scope 1 carbon emissions.
Metallics treatment for lead battery recycling at ACME’s facilities is now part of Ace and ACME’s extended license agreement. In order for ACME to process grid metallics from more than 65 million pounds of lead batteries annually, Ace intends to deploy its own Grid Metallics Processing System (“GMPS”). Ace anticipates putting the GMPS into service around the fourth quarter of 2025.
In order to create clean metallics that can be melted to create valuable lead alloys, GMPS receives unclean metallics from the lead battery breaker and separation system. The enhanced ACME plant is anticipated to be able to produce over 17 million pounds of refined lead and lead alloys annually with the extension of metallics treatment. This amount of output would be sufficient to enable the manufacturing of over one million automobile batteries.
“We have witnessed the impressive capabilities of Ace’s innovative and environmentally-friendly lead battery recycling technology first-hand through our partnership over the past year,” Linus P. Lu, Managing Director of ACME, said. “Ace has set the industry standard for solving many of the challenges in recycling lead, and we look forward to expanding how we leverage their technology to meet the growing demand from our automotive and battery manufacturing customers.”
“ACME is a valued partner to Ace, and this expanded agreement demonstrates more third-party validation of the strength of our recycling solutions,” Nishchay Chadha, CEO and Co-Founder of Ace, said. “This agreement enables Ace to generate additional revenues and further expand our margins. Advancing our asset-light expansion plans in this important market for Ace strategically positions us for success as we progress in our global expansion plans.”
