One-Stop Recycling Plant Solutions for Lead Acid, Lithium, and E-Waste Recovery

How San Lan Technologies Helps Businesses Turn Waste Streams into Profitable Resources

The global surge in electronic waste and end-of-life batteries has created both an environmental challenge and a business opportunity. Companies that invest in the right recycling infrastructure can recover valuable metals, reduce landfill dependency, and build sustainable revenue streams. San Lan Technologies Co., Ltd, established in 2007, has spent nearly two decades manufacturing industrial-scale recycling equipment that turns complex waste into high-purity raw materials.

The Growing Demand for Professional Recycling Equipment

Every year, millions of tons of lead acid batteries, lithium-ion batteries, printed circuit boards, and scrap cables reach the end of their useful lives. Without proper processing, these materials leak hazardous substances into soil and water. With the right machinery, they become sources of lead, copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, and precious metals.

Regulatory pressure is tightening worldwide. Governments are imposing stricter rules on battery disposal, e-waste handling, and emissions control. Businesses that proactively adopt recycling technology gain a competitive edge while staying ahead of compliance requirements.

Lead Acid Battery Recovery: From Waste to Pure Lead

Used lead acid batteries remain one of the most recycled products globally, but the process demands specialized machinery to handle acid, separate plastic casings, and extract lead paste safely. San Lan offers complete lead acid battery recycling equipment systems with capacities ranging from 1 to 10 metric tons per hour.

For operations requiring manual pre-processing, the hydraulic lead battery cutter HBC-045 cuts batteries into four parts and empties acid in just 45 seconds per piece. The refinery kettle furnace is available in natural gas, diesel, or electric heating configurations, with the electric version using near-infrared technology to save 30-50% energy.

Lithium Battery Recycling: Capturing Critical Metals

As electric vehicles and portable electronics proliferate, spent lithium-ion batteries represent one of the fastest-growing waste streams. More importantly, they contain critical materials such as nickel, cobalt, graphite, copper, and aluminum that domestic supply chains increasingly need.

San Lan's li battery recycling equipment processes waste lithium batteries at 500 to 2,500 kg per hour. The system includes discharging stations, pre-crushing units, secondary granulation, black powder separation, and magnetic separation of iron and steel. The output fractions include black mass containing nickel, cobalt, and graphite, separated plastic film, copper, and aluminum.

Circuit Board and Cable Recovery: Maximizing Metal Yield

Printed circuit boards contain copper, gold, silver, and other precious metals, but their complex composition makes mechanical separation challenging. San Lan provides both dry and wet separation circuit board recycling equipment with capacities from 300 to 2,000 kg per hour.

The dry separation plants use air separators, vibrating screens, electrostatic separators, cyclones, and pulse bag dust collectors to achieve copper powder purity of 96-98% with no dust pollution. Wet separation systems handle PCB waste with components still attached, offering stable operation and high recovery rates. All circuit board recycling lines can be scaled from 300 kg/hour up to 5,000 kg/hour based on project needs.

For cable scrap, San Lan manufactures a full range of equipment from manual scrap cable strippers handling diameters of 1.5mm to 150mm, to fully automatic cable granulators with dry separators. The compact granulator WCD-200C and high-capacity WCD-1200S serve operations of different scales, while specialized systems like the jelly-filled cable recycling plant WCW-500J address unique material types.

Beyond Core Recycling: Auxiliary and Support Equipment

A successful recycling plant requires more than primary processing machines. San Lan supplies the complete ecosystem including four-shaft shredders with 4-6 MT/hour capacity for multi-purpose pre-chopping, dual and single-shaft shredders for cable and PCB pre-processing, hydraulic balers for compressing recyclable materials, metal chip compactors and briquetting machines with pressure up to 42 tons, motor stator cutters for dismantling electric motors, and medium frequency induction furnaces for melting recovered metals into ingots.

For specialized applications, San Lan also produces CRT cutters using Ni-chrome heating wire or diamond cutting technology, refrigerator shredding and separating plants processing 20-30 units per hour with over 90% recovery rates for iron, copper, aluminum, plastic, and polyurethane, and lamp recycling machines that crush fluorescent tubes while capturing mercury through HEPA and activated carbon filters.

Lithium Ore Extraction: From Mine to Concentrate

Complementing its recycling portfolio, San Lan offers lithium ore extraction plants with capacities from 500 to 5,000 metric tons per day. The crude ore processing plant converts raw lithium ore to 4-5% grade concentrate, while the tailing ore extraction plant recovers lithium from waste tailings with 0.25-0.3% grade, reducing final tailings to 0.15% and achieving a total recovery rate of 75% compared to the industry average of 65%.

EPC Project Experience and Global Reach

San Lan's value extends beyond equipment manufacturing. The company provides full EPC services encompassing engineering design, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning. For entrepreneurs entering the recycling business, San Lan assists with waste material sourcing, investor introductions, and product offtake for recovered materials such as copper rice, copper powder, and lead ingots.

With customers in over 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 demonstrated its ability to adapt equipment designs to local regulations, material compositions, and operational conditions.