E-Waste Recycling Equipment: Complete Solutions for Battery, Circuit Board and Cable Recycling

Every year, millions of tons of end-of-life electronics leave factories, households and industrial sites. Inside these discarded items lies a concentrated reservoir of copper, aluminum, lead, lithium, nickel, cobalt and precious metals. Without the right processing infrastructure, this material becomes hazardous waste. With the right recycling equipment, it becomes a profitable raw-material stream.

San Lan Technologies Co., Ltd, established in 2007 in Jiangxi Province, China, has spent nearly two decades designing and manufacturing the machinery that makes this transformation possible. The company now serves customers in more than 21 countries, supplying everything from single machines to full turn-key recycling plants.

Why Demand for Recycling Equipment Is Accelerating

Three forces are driving the market forward simultaneously. First, environmental regulations across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America are tightening, banning open burning and informal acid leaching. Second, the electric-vehicle and energy-storage boom is creating an unprecedented pipeline of spent lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries that must be processed safely. Third, volatile raw-material prices are making recovered metals economically competitive with virgin mining.

These trends mean that investors and waste-management companies no longer ask whether to build a recycling facility, but which recycling equipment supplier can deliver reliable, compliant and profitable systems.

Core Product Lines from San Lan Technologies

San Lan’s catalog covers thirteen categories and roughly sixty products. Below are the four systems most frequently requested by international buyers.

Lead Acid Battery Recycling Plant

Used lead-acid batteries remain one of the most recycled commodities on earth, yet safe industrial-scale processing requires specialized machinery. San Lan’s lead acid battery recycling equipment includes a complete chain: hydraulic battery cutters, breaking-and-separation systems, filter presses, de-sulfurization units, rotary furnaces for paste reduction, blast furnaces with 95% lead recovery, and refinery kettles that produce 99.999% pure lead. Throughput ranges from 1 to 10 metric tons per hour, and every stage is paired with air-pollution control and water-treatment modules to meet environmental standards.

Lithium Battery Recycling Plant

As electric mobility expands, the volume of end-of-life lithium-ion cells is rising fast. San Lan’s lithium battery recycling plant handles 500 to 2,500 kg per hour, discharging, pre-crushing and granulating packs before separating the valuable black mass containing nickel, cobalt and graphite from plastic film, copper and aluminum. A dedicated air-pollution control system neutralizes harmful gases, while a plastic pneumatic conveyor and hydraulic briquetter compress separator film into dense blocks for resale.

Circuit Board Recycling Plant

Printed circuit boards carry some of the highest metal concentrations in the e-waste stream. San Lan offers both dry and wet circuit board recycling equipment. Dry lines use air separation, vibrating screens and electrostatic separators to achieve 96–98% copper powder purity with no dust emissions. Wet lines employ water-metal separation and can process boards still carrying components. Capacities span from 300 kg/hour up to 2,000 kg/hour, with custom designs available for larger industrial bases.

Cable Recycling Plant

Scrap cable is one of the easiest feedstocks to monetize when copper and aluminum are cleanly separated from insulation. San Lan’s cable recycling equipment ranges from manual and electric scrap cable strippers for small yards to fully automated cable granulators with dry separators for large-scale operations. Granulator models include the compact WCD-100C and WCD-200C, mid-size WCD-600S, and high-capacity WCD-1200S, allowing buyers to match machine size to daily volume without over-capitalizing.

From Single Machines to Turn-Key EPC Projects

Buying a machine is only the start. San Lan’s engineering team, led by mechanical engineers with master’s degrees and more than fifteen years of field experience, offers full EPC services: custom plant layout, equipment procurement, installation, commissioning and operator training. The team also helps clients source waste feedstock such as cable scrap, PCB scrap and used batteries, and can assist in marketing the recovered output, whether copper rice, lead ingots or black mass.

For investors who want to enter the recycling sector but lack technical expertise, San Lan can introduce partners and help structure recycling-plant construction projects from feasibility study through to commercial production.

Global Footprint, Local Understanding

San Lan has delivered equipment and plants to buyers in Singapore, Colombia, Vietnam, Mexico, Argentina, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Tunisia, India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Zambia, Israel and beyond. This geographic spread means the company understands varied electrical standards, environmental regulations and feedstock characteristics.

Because the sales and project-management staff are essentially bilingual in English and Chinese, communication barriers are minimized, and intercultural negotiations proceed smoothly.

What Sets San Lan Apart

• Depth of experience: Nearly 18 years in WEEE recycling machinery, from design through after-sales support.
• Integrated portfolio: One source for shredding, separation, smelting and pollution control, reducing vendor-management complexity.
• Custom engineering: Capacity, power supply and control language can be adapted to local conditions.
• End-to-end assistance: Help with feedstock sourcing, product offtake and even investor introductions.
• Proven recovery metrics: Lead recovery rates up to 95%, copper powder purity of 96–98%, and lithium tailings re-processing recovery of 75%.