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2/8/24, 10:56 AM UAE’s first integrated battery recycling plant unveiled
UAE’s first integrated

battery recycling plant
unveiled

DUBAI, 20 hours, 1 minutes ago
Dubatt Battery Recycling’s fully
integrated battery recycling plant
– the first of its kind in the UAE –
has been inaugurated at Dubai
Industrial City. Dubatt signed a
musataha agreement during the
inauguration ceremony to expand
the plant, raising its total
investment at Dubai Industrial City
to AED216 million ($59 million).

The factory is aligned with the
goals of the UAE Industrial The inauguration of the unit
Decarbonisation Roadmap, the
UAE Circular Economy Policy 2031, and Dubai Integrated Waste Management Strategy 2041 to
stimulate sustainable industrial and economic development.

The ingots manufactured at Dubatt’s plant will be used to produce new batteries, creating a circular
economy that furthers the UAE’s sustainability agenda in line with the goals of the Ministry of
Industry and Advanced Technology’s Operation 300bn programme. Battery products manufactured
at the end of the production cycle will be sold in the UAE and exported across the GCC, Europe, and
Far East, supporting the Make it in the Emirates initiative to strengthen the supply chain for locally
manufactured products.

Advanced battery breaking
With a built-up area of 65,000 sq ft, Dubatt’s state-of-the-art plant, worth AED120 million, is
equipped with advanced battery breaking, separating, smelting, and refining technologies to safely
extract hazardous waste from used lead acid batteries, recycling up to 80% of battery waste
produced in the UAE to manufacture lead ingots.

The plant’s inauguration follows months of trials to complete approval and audit processes with
government and environmental stakeholders, and its planned expansion, spanning 50,000 sq ft of
built-up area, is expected to raise Dubatt’s turnover to AED200 million.

Upon completion, the AED96 million expansion will raise the factory’s lead acid battery recycling
capacity to 75,000 metric tonnes (MT) a year, in addition to introducing dedicated lines for lead
billets, wires and lead shots, in addition to a grinding, and granulation line for 3,600 MT of battery
plastics, 5,000 MT of lithium batteries, and 7,000 MT of e-waste.

The ceremony
The inauguration was done in the presence of Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Cabinet Member and
Minister of Economy; Dr Amna Al Dahak, Cabinet Member and Minister of Climate Change and
Environment; Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, Head of the International Affairs Office
at the Presidential Court; and Omar Al Suwaidi, Undersecretary of the Ministry Industry and
Advanced Technology.

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