March 30, 2023: Italian engineering company Engitec Technologies has won its first equipment supply contract in Brazil — to deliver a lead battery recycling plant to Moura Batteries.

An Engitec spokesperson told Batteries International on March 29 that its CX Breaker plant will be shipped to Moura  in the third or fourth quarter of this year, following the contract signing in 2022.

The plant, which has a nominal processing capacity of 30 tonnes of used lead acid batteries per hour, includes a line for the pre-crushing of batteries and systems for electrolyte collection filtration and storage, components separation and a scrap battery feeder.

A state-of-the-art scrubbing system will filter emissions during plant operations.

Moura and Engitec will appoint a contractor to assemble the plant on site and an Engitec team will provide training and advisory support during cold and hot commissioning.

Moura, which also has a lithium ion division, processes more than 7.5 million batteries annually across six manufacturing sites.

Engitec, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, says it already has CX plants operating on five continents.

In August 2021 Engitec announced it would build the first lead battery recycling plant for the Sharaf Group in Dubai.

Image of a CX plant, courtesy Engitec