From Scrap to Resource: San Lan's Integrated Recycling Plants for Batteries, PCBs, and Cables

Turning waste streams into profitable raw materials with proven equipment and end-to-end project support.

Every year, millions of tons of discarded electronics, spent batteries, and scrap cables pile up in landfills, wasting valuable metals and polluting the environment. Turning this waste back into raw materials is no longer optional-it is a profitable business and a regulatory necessity. Since 2007, San Lan Technologies Co., Ltd has been helping investors and plant operators worldwide do exactly that.

The Market Is Growing Fast

Governments across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America are tightening e-waste disposal rules. Manual dismantling and informal smelting are being restricted or banned. At the same time, demand for copper, lithium, cobalt, and lead continues to rise. These two forces-stricter regulation and higher metal prices-are pushing the recycling equipment market upward year after year.

The opportunity is clear, but success depends on choosing the right equipment and the right partner.

Complete Solutions for Major Waste Streams

San Lan designs and manufactures a full range of recycling machinery. Here are the four product lines most in demand today:

• Lead Acid Battery Recycling
  Used car, truck, and industrial batteries contain lead paste, lead grids, plastic, and acid. San Lan's lead acid battery recycling equipment breaks and separates these components at capacities from 1 to 10 MT per hour. The system recovers acid, plastic shells, lead grids, and lead paste for further smelting. Optional downstream equipment includes de-sulfurization units, rotary furnaces, blast furnaces, and lead refinery kettles that refine crude lead to 99.999% purity.
• Lithium Battery Recycling
  With the electric vehicle boom, spent lithium-ion batteries are becoming one of the largest new waste streams. San Lan's li battery recycling equipment processes 500-2,500 kg per hour through discharging, pre-crushing, secondary granulation, and black powder separation. The plant recovers black mass (nickel, cobalt, graphite), plastic film, copper, and aluminum. An integrated air pollution control system absorbs and neutralizes harmful gases, keeping emissions compliant.
• Circuit Board Recycling
  Printed circuit boards hold copper, precious metals, and non-metal resin. San Lan offers both dry and wet separation circuit board recycling equipment with capacities from 300 to 2,000 kg per hour. Dry separation models such as the WCBD-2000A use air separators, vibrating screens, and electrostatic separators to achieve copper powder purity of 96-98% with a recovery rate around 95%. Wet separation options are available for boards that still carry electronic components.
• Cable Recycling
  Scrap communication cables, power lines, and enameled wires are rich in copper and aluminum. San Lan's cable recycling plant uses cable strippers and dry granulators to separate metal from plastic insulation. Compact granulators with dry separators handle small to medium volumes, while larger plants process jelly-filled and armored cables continuously.

More Than Just Machines

San Lan does not only sell individual machines. The company delivers complete EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) projects. A typical engagement includes:

• Custom plant layout and process design based on local raw material supply and environmental rules
• Manufacturing and factory acceptance testing
• Shipping, installation, and commissioning
• Operator training and spare parts planning

San Lan can even help customers purchase waste material-such as cable scrap, PCB scrap, or used lead acid batteries-and assist in selling the recovered products like copper rice, lead ingots, or lithium concentrate.