{"id":16105,"date":"2025-03-10T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paristokierratys.fi\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/solution-for-producer-responsibility-of-large-industrial-batteries-four-companies-expanding-recser\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T06:16:23","slug":"solution-for-producer-responsibility-of-large-industrial-batteries-four-companies-expanding-recser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristokierratys.fi\/en\/blog\/2025\/03\/10\/solution-for-producer-responsibility-of-large-industrial-batteries-four-companies-expanding-recser\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution for producer responsibility of large industrial batteries \u2013 Four companies expanding Recser"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]A recycling system in line with producer responsibility is being established for large industrial batteries by expanding Recser’s operations. In February, four producers of large industrial batteries\u2014Avant Power from Yl\u00f6j\u00e4rvi, Cactos from Kempele, Enico from Tampere, and Merus Power from Yl\u00f6j\u00e4rvi\u2014joined Recser as shareholders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The background for this expansion is the EU’s new Battery Regulation, which requires that producers of large industrial batteries must comprehensively and collectively manage the recycling of their products starting in August 2025. A company must be part of the collective responsibility system in order to place batteries on the market.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

“Now that the ownership base is in place, we will start expanding the producer responsibility system by creating collection readiness as well as transport and recycling services for end-of-life large industrial batteries. To organize this, we have appointed Arttu Kautonen<\/strong> to a newly created position as Circular Economy Manager for Industrial Batteries,”<\/em> says Recser\u2019s Managing Director Liisa-Marie Stenb\u00e4ck<\/strong>, expressing satisfaction with the solution.<\/p>\n

Kautonen transitions into the role from the Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe Group.<\/p>\n

“I have gained familiarity with industrial battery technologies and the producer interface while working for a global heavy machinery manufacturer. I hope this experience will help me quickly contribute to the development,”<\/em> Kautonen says on his first day in the position.<\/p>\n

The need for battery industry companies to organize is driven by the EU’s new Battery Regulation, which came into force in August 2023. The regulation mandates collective producer responsibility for the recycling of all battery categories starting in August 2025.<\/p>\n

The newly joined companies enable the creation of a new producer responsibility system as part of Recser’s existing framework for industrial batteries over 25 kg that are not lead-based. Corresponding systems already exist in Finland for lead batteries and other battery categories.<\/p>\n

Following the regulation’s implementation, Recser and other producer organisations in the battery industry began jointly investigating how producers of large industrial batteries wanted to organize themselves.<\/p>\n

“In the process initiated by the seminar we held in spring 2024, producers decided to expand Recser instead of establishing a new producer organisation,”<\/em> explains Stenb\u00e4ck.<\/p>\n

The new shareholder company Cactos sees collaboration as a reasonable way to handle producer responsibility.<\/p>\n

“We handle many things ourselves, but this is something that makes sense to do together with other producers. Recser is a producer-founded and producer-owned organisation that will take care of this producer responsibility,”<\/em> says Cactos\u2019 COO Veli-Erkki Ruotsalainen.<\/p>\n

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Veli-Erkki Ruotsalainen, Chief Operating Officer of Cactos. Photo: Cactos Oy<\/p><\/div>\n

Industrial batteries include:<\/strong><\/p>\n