Status
Operational: status carried from the legacy record
Process: pyrometallurgy + hydrometallurgy. Capacity: 7,000 t/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).
World's oldest and most established battery recycler; Hoboken Belgium smelter; pyrometallurgy + hydro combination; EU Battery Regulation anchor facility; Co and Ni recovery at highest purity; feeds Umicore CAM plants.
Customers and offtakers: BMW / Volkswagen / Audi / Renault.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | Umicore |
| Plant | Hoboken Recycling Campus |
| City | Hoboken |
| State or province | Antwerp |
| Country | Belgium |
| Type | Recycler |
| Process | pyrometallurgy + hydrometallurgy |
| Output stage | battery-grade salts |
| Input chemistries | NMC, NCA, LFP, Mixed |
| Output products | Co / Ni / Cu / precious metals; battery salts |
| Capacity (t/yr input) | 7000 |
| Capacity basis | Legacy figure; not re-verified |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Status carried from the legacy record; not re-verified |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 1866 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 0.8 |
| Customers and offtakers | BMW / Volkswagen / Audi / Renault |
| OEM partnerships | BMW; VW Group; multiple EU OEMs |
| Under EU Battery Regulation | Yes |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: umicore.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nysa Recycling (Umicore) | Poland | paused |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Hoboken Recycling Campus (Umicore)
- Sources
- ElectronsX recycling dataset; company disclosures
- Updated
- 2026-10