How Turnkey E-Waste Recycling Equipment Helps Recover Value from Waste

Every year, millions of tons of electronic waste reach the end of their useful life. From spent batteries and obsolete circuit boards to discarded cables and refrigeration units, this waste stream contains valuable metals and materials that can be recovered and returned to the supply chain. The challenge for recyclers is finding reliable, efficient equipment that can handle complex separation tasks while meeting strict environmental standards.

San Lan Technologies Co., Ltd has been addressing this challenge since 2007. Based in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, the company designs and manufactures a broad range of WEEE recycling machines and ore extraction equipment for customers across more than 21 countries. Their portfolio covers everything from lead acid battery recycling equipment to cable granulators and circuit board separation systems, offered as individual machines or complete turnkey plants.

The Business Case for Professional Recycling Machinery

Operating a recycling facility without the right equipment leads to low recovery rates, material contamination, and regulatory risk. Manual disassembly is slow and inconsistent, while improvised crushing methods often destroy valuable fractions and create hazardous dust or effluent.

Purpose-built recycling machinery solves these problems through engineered processes. Mechanical shredding, air classification, wet separation, magnetic sorting, and electrostatic recovery each play a role in extracting copper, aluminum, lead, lithium compounds, and precious metals with minimal loss. The result is higher throughput, cleaner output fractions, and compliance with local environmental rules.

Core Equipment Lines from San Lan Technologies

San Lan's product catalog spans 13 categories and roughly 60 products. Below are the equipment lines most relevant to operators entering or expanding in the e-waste recycling sector.

• Lead Acid Battery Recycling Plants
  The complete plant breaks and separates used lead acid batteries into four outputs: acid, lead paste, lead grid, and plastic. Capacity ranges from 1 to 10 MT per hour. Supporting equipment includes battery cutters, filter presses, de-sulfurization units, rotary furnaces for paste reduction, blast furnaces with lead recovery rates up to 95%, lead refinery kettles reaching 99.999% purity, air pollution control systems, and water treatment plants. Operators can purchase the full line or individual units depending on their existing infrastructure.
• Lithium Battery Recycling Plants
  San Lan's lithium battery recycling line handles waste Li-ion cells at 500 to 2,500 kg per hour. The process discharges, pre-crushes, and granulates batteries, then separates black mass containing nickel, cobalt, and graphite from plastic film, copper, and aluminum. Ancillary systems include plastic pneumatic conveyors, hydraulic briquetters with a 10:1 volume compression ratio, and dedicated air pollution control units.
• Cable Recycling Equipment
  The cable recycling equipment range includes scrap cable strippers for diameters from 1.5 mm to 150 mm, and cable granulators with dry or wet separators. Granulator capacities span from compact 100 kg/hour units up to 1,200 kg/hour systems. Copper and aluminum are separated from plastic insulation with high purity, ready for direct smelting or sale.
• Circuit Board Recycling Plants
  San Lan offers both dry and wet separation circuit board recycling equipment with capacities from 300 kg/hour to 2,000 kg/hour. Dry systems use air separators, vibrating screens, electrostatic separators, and pulse bag dust collectors. Wet systems use water metal separation for high copper powder purity. Both approaches recover copper and precious metals while controlling dust and effluent.
• Refrigerator, AC, and CRT Recycling
  End-of-life refrigerators and air conditioners are processed through refrigerant extraction machines compatible with R404A, R407C, R410A, and R134A, followed by shredding and separation plants that recover iron, copper, aluminum, plastic, and polyurethane foam. For obsolete CRT monitors, San Lan supplies cutters with Ni-chrome heating wire or diamond blades to separate panel glass from funnel glass while safely collecting phosphor powder.
• Shredders and Pre-Choppers
  Single-shaft, twin-shaft, and four-shaft shredders serve as the front end of many recycling lines. Capacities range from 200 kg/hour to 6 MT/hour. These machines pre-size material for downstream cable, PCB, battery, and refrigerator recycling operations.

Project Execution and Value-Added Services

San Lan does not only manufacture machines. The company provides EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) services for full recycling plant projects. This includes customized plant layout design, equipment selection, installation, and commissioning. For new market entrants, San Lan can assist with sourcing waste feedstock such as cable scrap, PCB scrap, or used lead acid batteries, and can help find buyers for output products including copper rice, copper powder, and lead ingots.

The technical team includes mechanical engineers with master's degrees and more than 15 years of experience in e-waste recycling machinery design. This depth allows San Lan to tailor plant configurations to local material compositions, environmental regulations, and target throughput rather than offering one-size-fits-all packages.

Global Reach and Local Support

San Lan has supplied equipment to customers in over 21 countries, including Singapore, Colombia, Vietnam, Mexico, Argentina, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Tunisia, India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Zambia, and Israel. The company's bilingual English and Chinese capabilities, combined with experience in cross-cultural project management, allow effective communication during specification, production, shipping, and commissioning phases.

Mining and Mineral Processing Equipment

Beyond e-waste, San Lan manufactures lithium ore extraction plants. The crude ore processing line converts raw lithium ore to concentrate with a grade of 4% to 5%, with daily capacities from 500 to 5,000 MT. The tailings extraction plant recovers additional lithium from waste tailings, reducing final tailings grade to 0.15%. For fine grinding operations, San Lan also supplies nano ceramic and nano composite ceramic balls for ball mills, tower mills, and Isa mills.