Rocklink India Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocklink, has announced the establishment of its first integrated recycling facility in India. Located at the UPSIDC Industrial Area in Secunderabad, Uttar Pradesh, the plant is designed to strengthen the country’s capabilities in critical materials recovery and support the development of circular supply chains.
The facility is equipped with lithium-ion battery recycling, rare earth magnet dismantling and processing of metal-containing industrial waste. It will play an important role in enabling sustainable resource management, especially in the context of India’s growing electric mobility ecosystem.
In its initial phase, the plant will have a lithium-ion battery recycling capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year. Additionally, it will process rare earth magnets at a capacity of 60 tonnes per month.
Further enhancing its capabilities, the company is set to commission a rare earth chloride processing line with an annual production capacity of 1,500 tonnes by the first quarter of 2026. This expansion is expected to significantly boost Rocklink India’s contribution to the domestic rare earth value chain.
Commenting on the development, Leonard Alexander Ansorge, Director, Rocklink India Pvt. Ltd. Ltd. said, “The establishment of this facility is an important step in building advanced recycling infrastructure for critical materials in India. With capabilities to process lithium-ion batteries and rare earth magnets, we aim to support the development of a circular ecosystem for critical raw materials that are required for electric mobility, renewable energy systems and advanced manufacturing.”
Rocklink India’s EPR-registered lithium-ion battery recycling plant is designed to process 95 different types of pre- and post-consumer battery scrap materials. The company has completed the commissioning phase of its self-developed lithium-ion recycling technology (R2), which safely processes battery scrap into valuable components while removing hazardous volatile organic compounds.
The technology enables the facility to process multiple battery formats, sizes and cell chemistries while capturing volatile organic compounds through an encapsulated process and advanced waste gas treatment systems. The recycling process achieves over 98 percent recovery efficiency for metals such as aluminium, copper and iron, while producing high purity black mass suitable for further refining.
In addition to recycling, the company plans to integrate battery refurbishing operations into the facility. This will enable the safe reuse of viable battery cells through international standards for testing, balancing and pack manufacturing, extending battery life cycles and improving resource efficiency.
The facility also includes dedicated capabilities for rare earth magnet recycling, including permanent magnet alloys such as NdFeB, SmCo and AlNiCo, which are commonly used in electric motors, generators and industrial equipment. Semi-automatic dismantling lines will process magnet-containing assemblies in homogeneous batches, improving traceability and recycling efficiency.
Rocklink India is also expanding its MagCycle™ reverse logistics model into the Indian market, which was previously implemented in Europe since 2018. The system enables structured collection of magnet scrap and routing into appropriate recycling channels while strengthening circular material flows.
The company follows a “Know Your Materials (KYM)” approach, supported by in-house laboratory testing and grading systems that analyze elemental composition and surface oxidation to determine the most appropriate recycling route. Materials not suitable for direct recycling routes will be processed into rare earth chlorides in the upcoming facility’s processing unit, which operates a 22-metre direct-heated rotary kiln for the safe calcination of metal-bearing industrial waste.
Through collaboration with technology startups, research institutes and government stakeholders, Rocklink India aims to advance dismantling automation, improve material recovery efficiency and contribute to India’s long-term efforts to strengthen domestic supply chains for critical raw materials.