December 19, 2025: Ace Green Recycling said on December 4 it is set to despatch equipment this month for the planned second phase of a project with Taiwanese lead refiner ACME Metal Enterprise.
Equipment arrival and commercial operation of phase two at ACME’s Keelung City facility is expected early in the new year and follows an expanded recycling agreement announced by the partners last June.
This next phase will give ACME the capacity to produce refined lead and lead alloys from paste and metallics extracted from up to 60 million pounds of used lead acid battery scrap annually — equivalent to around two million car batteries each year — using Ace’s proprietary ‘GreenLead’ technology.
Meanwhile, Ace said it is also preparing to ship equipment to Thailand and has already started shipments to Armenia for two separate lead and lithium projects in that country.
The recycler said its Grid Metallics Processing System (GMPS) for IPP Lead and Metals in Thailand, remains on schedule, with onsite deployment expected between March and April 2026.
On its projects in Armenia for Mel Metals, announced earlier this year, Ace said the lead recycling system is being shipped in batches through this month and into January. The Li recycling system was shipped last month. Commissioning and full commercial production for both facilities are targeted for April-May 2026.
Ace has not given a detailed technical breakdown of GMPS’s capabilities, but said it expects that its solution can enable lead battery recyclers to increase their throughput by up to 25%, by freeing up smelting capacity.
The company claims its GreenLead tech replaces the smelting furnace, operates at room temperature, runs on electricity and has zero Scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions (direct GHG emissions such as those made while running boilers and vehicles) and reduces solid waste by more than 85%.
Batteries International reported last month that former Gopher Resource executive Rick Stollsteimer had joined Ace as senior VP of operations, to lead development of the firm’s Texas facility and its expansion of operations in North America.
