Jingmen Recycling Hub

GEM (Green Eco-Manufacture) · Jingmen, China · Battery-grade salts

Battery recycling plant operated by GEM (Green Eco-Manufacture) in Jingmen, China. Status: operational.

Jingmen Recycling Hub: recycling plant illustration with pack, shredder, black mass, leach tanks and salt bags; Battery-grade salts, status operational, China Battery-grade salts Operational China
Capacity
100,000 t/yr
Process
Hydrometallurgy
Output
Battery-grade salts
Hub
Supply Chain

Status

Operational: Operating

Process: hydrometallurgy. Capacity: 100,000 t/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).

World's largest battery recycler by volume; Jingmen Hubei; urban mining plus primary ore; vertically integrated from recycled black mass to pCAM; 100kt+ input capacity; feeds GEM CAM plant directly.

Customers and offtakers: CATL / BYD / domestic OEMs.

Plant record

Plant record

Jingmen Recycling Hub (GEM (Green Eco-Manufacture))
CompanyGEM (Green Eco-Manufacture)
PlantJingmen Recycling Hub
CityJingmen
State or provinceHubei
CountryChina
TypeRecycler
Processhydrometallurgy
Output stagebattery-grade salts
Input chemistriesNMC, LFP, NMC
Output productsCo / Ni / Mn / Li salts; pCAM
Capacity (t/yr input)100000
Capacity basisLegacy figure; not re-verified
Statusoperational
Status noteOperating
Scalecommercial
Start year2010
Investment (US$ billion)1.0
Customers and offtakersCATL / BYD / domestic OEMs
OEM partnershipsCATL; BYD
Under EU Battery RegulationNo
Geopolitical exposureHIGH
Record updated2026-10

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.

Other plants of GEM (Green Eco-Manufacture) and other plants in China
PlantCountryStatus
Yichang Recycling Base (Brunp Recycling (CATL subsidiary))Chinaoperational
Ningxiang Recycling Base (Brunp Recycling (CATL))Chinaoperational
Xinyu Recycling Plant (Ganfeng Lithium Recycling)Chinaoperational
Wuhan Recycling Base (GEM)Chinaoperational
Quzhou Recycling Base (Huayou Cobalt)Chinaoperational
Tongxiang Recycling Division (Huayou Cobalt Recycling)Chinaoperational

Sources

Sources and scope

Scope
Jingmen Recycling Hub (GEM (Green Eco-Manufacture))
Sources
ElectronsX recycling dataset; company disclosures
Updated
2026-10