Cirba Solutions plans $200 million expansion at industrial park

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Excellent news for the City of Lancaster!

LANCASTER − Cirba Solutions plans a $200 million expansion project at its battery recycling operations plant in the Rockmill Industrial Park.

The new plant will be near the two current buildings on Quarry Road. Workers will recycle electric vehicle batteries and use the components and minerals in those batteries to make new batteries.

Cirba Solutions, formerly known as Retriev Technologies, said the new plant will be one of the largest battery recycling plants in North America and create an additional 150 local jobs, along with recycling enough batteries to power more than 200,000 electric vehicles annually.

Cirba Solutions Vice President of Marketing and Communications Danielle Spalding said the project will include expanding a current building and possibly building another one. The company has not yet decided on the amount of square footage needed for the project.

Spalding said construction should start sometime next year, although the company has not decided on the exact date. Spalding said the new expanded operational could become operational in late 2024 or early 2025.

"We've had a fantastic home in Ohio for quite a while and we're really excited to be able to expand that overall," she said.
Spalding said the company is financing the entire $200 million with no grants and no money from the city yet.

“As a trusted partner in processing end-of-life batteries, this project supports the growing need forproviding critical EV materials for a sustainable and sustained domestic battery supply chain,” Cirba Solutions President and CEO David Klanecky said in a statement. “This strategic location will supply battery grade metal salts to our customers’ manufacturing facilities and create jobs to grow the local economy.”

Cirba Solutions is a company that recycles a wide range of batteries. It traces its roots to 1984 and has been in Fairfield County since 1999 under the old Retriev name. Its main campus consists of the two buildings on Quarry Road. The company also has a warehouse and sorting center on Lancaster-Newark Road in Baltimore.

Cirba Solutions also has locations in Brea, California, and Trail, British Columbia Mayor David Scheffler said the plan has been in the works for some time. He said the project will create construction jobs for local workers in addition to the 150 additional plant jobs.

"Construction jobs bring a lot of wages to town," he said. "And spending on local restaurants and local stores, etc. So it will be a big boon to the economy before the plant is even operational and they ramp up employees." 


Press Release: Lancaster Eagle Gazette

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