Status
Operational: Operating
Process: mechanical + hydrometallurgy. Capacity: 60,000 t/yr (Reported site capacity (2025); legacy figure was 100,000).
Most vertically integrated US recycler; closes loop from black mass to CAM and anode copper foil on single Nevada campus; Tesla alumni founder (JB Straubel); DOE loan $2B.
Customers and offtakers: Panasonic / Ford / Toyota / Volkswagen.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | Redwood Materials |
| Plant | McCarran Nevada Campus |
| City | McCarran |
| State or province | Nevada |
| Country | USA |
| Type | Recycler |
| Process | mechanical + hydrometallurgy |
| Output stage | battery-grade salts |
| Input chemistries | NMC, NCA, LFP |
| Output products | Black mass; Li / Co / Ni salts; CAM + copper foil |
| Capacity (t/yr input) | 60000 |
| Capacity basis | Reported site capacity (2025); legacy figure was 100,000 |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Operating; copper foil scaled back and CAM build delayed in 2025 as Redwood moved into storage with retired packs (Redwood Energy) |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 2020 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 1.0 |
| Customers and offtakers | Panasonic / Ford / Toyota / Volkswagen |
| OEM partnerships | Panasonic (Nevada JV); Ford; Toyota; VW; Amazon (logistics EVs) |
| Under EU Battery Regulation | No |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: redwoodmaterials.com
In context
Where it fits
Listed in EV Battery Recycling Facilities. Recyclers are compared on where they stop: shredding to black mass, smelting to alloy, or refining to battery-grade salts that go back into cathode plants; only refining keeps the metal in the region. See Battery Recycling for the process and the market.
| Plant | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Campus (Redwood Materials) | USA | operational |
| Fernley Nevada Plant (ABTC) | USA | operational |
| Covington Georgia Spoke (Ascend Elements) | USA | operational |
| Worcester Pilot (Ascend Elements (formerly Battery Resourcers)) | USA | operational |
| Lancaster California (B2U Storage Solutions) | USA | operational |
| Lancaster and US Plants (Cirba Solutions) | USA | operational |
| Bend Oregon Direct+Second Life (OnTo Technology) | USA | operational |
| NJ Direct Recycling Pilot (Princeton NuEnergy) | USA | operational |
| OKC Refurbishment Campus (Spiers New Technologies) | USA | operational |
| Yellowstone Second Life (Toyota) | USA | operational |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- McCarran Nevada Campus (Redwood Materials)
- Sources
- ElectronsX recycling dataset; company disclosures
- Updated
- 2026-10