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South Africa is currently taking the lead when it comes to battery manufacturing in Africa. Companies such as AutoX, Donaventa Holdings, Duracell South Africa, Energizer South Africa, Eveready, Metindustrial, Potensa, Probe Corporation, and Solguard have dominated this space for quite some time.
One such company was Union Autoparts Mfg. Co. Ltd., West Africa’s biggest battery recycling plant and located in a country believed to dispose of over 500,000 tons of used lead acid batteries every year. However, the plant could not source enough used batteries to supply its underutilized machines.
In so doing, the country and the rest of Africa can extend their access from the USD271 billion battery precursor segment to the more lucrative USD1.4 trillion combined battery cell production and cell assembly segments of the battery minerals global value chain.
Despite Africa’s riches in terms of CRMs, currently the battery minerals by and large leave the continent raw and unprocessed, with refining, and manufacturing, mostly taking place elsewhere, especially in China. Some notable exceptions include South Africa’s existing aluminium and manganese refining, and more recent nickel refining.
With strong backward and forward linkages, China has the most existing battery manufacturing capacity as well as the highest battery demand in the world. These are then used to produce consumer products, mainly EVs.
Lead-acid battery recycling currently occurs across three main types of businesses. Commonly found recyclers in Africa include: 1. Informal battery-breakers and smelters: — this type of recycling is mostly small-scale and conducted under informal conditions.
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An agreement for EV battery plants would help African nations process their raw materials instead of richer nations getting the benefits.
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As battery demand grows and Chinese, European, and American firms build battery gigafactories, African leaders must step up and include battery production as a continent-wide development...