Complete E-Waste Recycling Solutions: From Battery to Circuit Board Recovery

The global surge in electronic waste presents both an environmental challenge and a lucrative business opportunity. With discarded smartphones, laptops, batteries, and industrial electronics piling up at unprecedented rates, recycling plants worldwide are seeking reliable, high-efficiency machinery to turn waste into valuable resources. Choosing the right recycling equipment is the critical first step toward building a profitable and compliant operation.

Governments across every continent are tightening regulations on electronic waste disposal, banning landfill dumping and mandating responsible recycling practices. This regulatory pressure, combined with rising raw material costs, has created strong demand for professional machinery capable of recovering copper, aluminum, lead, lithium, and precious metals from discarded electronics. Formal recycling facilities are rapidly replacing informal manual dismantling with automated, environmentally friendly processing lines that meet strict emission and safety standards.

Buyers from Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa are actively investing in standardized recycling plants. Whether you operate a small workshop requiring compact integrated units or a large industrial base building whole production lines, the market for proven recycling technology continues to expand under the global circular economy trend.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, San Lan Technologies Co., Ltd has spent nearly two decades engineering comprehensive recycling solutions for the WEEE and e-waste industry. The company manufactures a full spectrum of equipment covering nearly every major electronic waste stream, from batteries and cables to circuit boards and refrigerators.

For lead-acid battery recyclers, San Lan provides complete lead acid battery recycling equipment with capacities ranging from 1 to 10 MT per hour. The integrated breaking and separation system efficiently processes used lead acid batteries to recover acid, plastic shell, lead grid, and lead paste.

As electric vehicles and portable electronics proliferate, spent lithium-ion batteries represent one of the fastest-growing waste streams. San Lan's lithium battery recycling plant handles 500–2,500 kg per hour, breaking and separating waste Li-ion batteries to recover black mass (containing nickel, cobalt, and graphite), plastic, copper, and aluminum.

The complete line includes discharging systems, pre-crushing units, secondary granulation, black powder separation, magnetic separation of iron and steel, plastic pneumatic conveying, hydraulic briquetting with a 10:1 volume compression ratio, and dedicated air pollution control systems that neutralize harmful gases before atmospheric release.

San Lan manufactures cable recycling equipment ranging from compact dry-separation granulators to large-capacity wet-separation plants. Scrap cable strippers handle cable diameters from 1.5 mm to 150 mm, while cable granulators separate copper and aluminum from plastic insulation with high throughput. A dedicated jelly-filled cable recycling plant is also available for specialized telecom cable processing.

For printed circuit board recyclers, San Lan offers both dry and wet separation technologies. Dry-process circuit board recycling plants achieve copper powder purity of 96–98% with 95% recovery rates and zero dust pollution, thanks to integrated pulse bag dust collectors and cyclone separators. Wet-separation systems can process PCB waste with electronic components still intact, making them ideal for complex mixed feeds.

Beyond these core systems, San Lan supplies CRT recycling machines that safely cut and separate CRT panel and funnel glass while capturing phosphor powder; refrigerator and AC recycling plants that extract refrigerant and separate metals, plastics, and polyurethane with recovery rates exceeding 90%; motor recycling equipment that dismantles stators to extract copper windings; and lamp recycling machines that crush fluorescent tubes and capture mercury via HEPA and active carbon filters.

The product range also includes multi-purpose shredders and pre-choppers (single, twin, and four-shaft configurations), metal melting furnaces, hydraulic press machines for briquetting metal chips, and nano ceramic grinding media for ball mills. For mining operations, San Lan provides lithium ore extraction plants that process crude ore and tailings with total recovery rates reaching 75%, well above the 65% industry average.

San Lan's engineering team holds master's degrees in mechanical engineering and brings over 15 years of hands-on experience in e-waste recycling machinery design. The company delivers far more than equipment sales—it offers full EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) project services including customized plant design, one-stop purchasing centers, installation, and commissioning.

Additional value-added services set San Lan apart. The team assists clients with sourcing waste feedstock such as cable scrap, PCB scrap, and used lead acid batteries. They also help market the recovered output—including copper rice, copper powder, and lead ingots—and actively seek investors and partners for recycling plant construction. With installations in more than 21 countries including Singapore, Colombia, Vietnam, Mexico, Argentina, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Tunisia, India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Zambia, and Israel, San Lan has built a reputation for reliable performance and responsive international support.

The sales and technical teams are essentially bilingual in English and Chinese, with strong cross-cultural communication skills that smooth project execution from initial inquiry to after-sales service.