Status
Operational: Acquired by Glencore August 2025
Process: mechanical. Capacity: not published.
Original Li-Cycle commercial spoke; Glencore also took the Arizona, Alabama and New York spokes.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | Glencore (formerly Li-Cycle) |
| Plant | Kingston Spoke |
| City | Kingston |
| State or province | Ontario |
| Country | Canada |
| Type | Recycler |
| Process | mechanical |
| Output stage | black mass |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Acquired by Glencore August 2025; status unverified |
| Scale | commercial |
| Under EU Battery Regulation | No |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: glencore.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Magdeburg Spoke (Glencore (formerly Li-Cycle)) | Germany | operational |
| Rochester Hub (Glencore (formerly Li-Cycle)) | USA | paused |
| Trail Plant (Cirba Solutions (formerly Retriev)) | Canada | operational |
| Montreal Hydromet Plant (Lithion Recycling) | Canada | operational |
| Burnaby Second Life Plant (Moment Energy) | Canada | operational |
| Ontario Direct Recycling Hub (Electra Battery Materials) | Canada | under construction |
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Kingston Spoke (Glencore (formerly Li-Cycle))
- Sources
- ElectronsX recycling dataset; company disclosures
- Updated
- 2026-10