--- title: "A Chinese-owned battery recycler other than Gotion, most likely CATL's Brunp, Huayou Recycling or GEM, will announce a battery recycling or black mass processing site in an EU country by June 2027." description: "China's new battery plan tells companies to build spent-battery recycling capacity in their main export markets where conditions allow. Europe's ban on exporting black mass to non-OECD countries appli" url: "https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/134/a-chinese-owned-battery-recycler-other-than-gotion-most-likely-catl-s-brunp-huay" markdown: "https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/134/a-chinese-owned-battery-recycler-other-than-gotion-most-likely-catl-s-brunp-huay.md" index: "https://bilby.ai/llms.txt" --- > For agents: Bilby answers questions about what governments do, from documents collected at source and checked by research analysts. To ask Bilby yourself, connect to its MCP server at https://pulse.bilby.ai/mcp (setup: https://docs.bilby.ai/developers/mcp-server). Every page on this site is also markdown: add .md to its address, or send Accept: text/markdown. https://bilby.ai/llms.txt lists them all. # A Chinese-owned battery recycler other than Gotion, most likely CATL's Brunp, Huayou Recycling or GEM, will announce a battery recycling or black mass processing site in an EU country by June 2027. - **Made:** 29 Sep 2026 - **By:** Owen Bae - **Market:** China - **Outcome:** Unresolved China's new battery plan tells companies to build spent-battery recycling capacity in their main export markets where conditions allow. Europe's ban on exporting black mass to non-OECD countries applies from 9 November 2026, so recyclers wanting European scrap must process it inside the OECD, and EU recovery targets tighten at the end of 2027. Gotion's €950 million Valladolid recycling plant will be an example followed by Brunp, Huayou and GEM, who have already demonstrated an interest in capacity expansion and collaboration with European partners. [Ask Bilby about this prediction](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=A%20Chinese-owned%20battery%20recycler%20other%20than%20Gotion%2C%20most%20likely%20CATL's%20Brunp%2C%20Huayou%20Recycling%20or%20GEM%2C%20will%20announce%20a%20battery%20recycling%20or%20black%20mass%20processing%20site%20in%20an%20EU%20country%20by%20June%202027.) ## Ask Bilby about it Carry the prediction into a question: what has changed since, who decides, and who is exposed. - [What has changed since it was made?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=What%20has%20changed%20since%20Bilby%20predicted%20this%3F%20A%20Chinese-owned%20battery%20recycler%20other%20than%20Gotion%2C%20most%20likely%20CATL's%20Brunp%2C%20Huayou%20Recycling%20or%20GEM%2C%20will%20announce%20a%20battery%20recycling%20or%20black%20mass%20processing%20site%20in%20an%20EU%20country%20by%20June%202027.) - [Who decides whether it happens?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Who%20decides%20whether%20this%20happens%3F%20A%20Chinese-owned%20battery%20recycler%20other%20than%20Gotion%2C%20most%20likely%20CATL's%20Brunp%2C%20Huayou%20Recycling%20or%20GEM%2C%20will%20announce%20a%20battery%20recycling%20or%20black%20mass%20processing%20site%20in%20an%20EU%20country%20by%20June%202027.) - [Who gains and who loses if it does?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Who%20gains%20and%20who%20loses%20if%20this%20happens%3F%20A%20Chinese-owned%20battery%20recycler%20other%20than%20Gotion%2C%20most%20likely%20CATL's%20Brunp%2C%20Huayou%20Recycling%20or%20GEM%2C%20will%20announce%20a%20battery%20recycling%20or%20black%20mass%20processing%20site%20in%20an%20EU%20country%20by%20June%202027.) ## More from China 37 predictions on China so far, newest first. - 9 Nov 2026 · [Costly winter gas purchases will push CPC’s accumulated losses to about NT$127.6 billion by the end of 2026](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/209/costly-winter-gas-purchases-will-push-cpc-s-accumulated-losses-to-about-nt-127-6) · Unresolved - 6 Nov 2026 · [Nvidia is likely to win additional computing orders by the end of 2027.](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/208/nvidia-is-likely-to-win-additional-computing-orders-by-the-end-of-2027) · Unresolved - 5 Nov 2026 · [China’s IPO restrictions will redirect billions of yuan towards private financing.](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/205/china-s-ipo-restrictions-will-redirect-billions-of-yuan-towards-private-financin) · Unresolved [All 37 from China](https://bilby.ai/predictions/log?tag=china) · Marked true or false when each resolves ## See what we’re seeing next. New predictions in the Asia Daily Take, free every weekday, and in Bilby whenever you have a question. [Get the Asia Daily Take](https://bilby.ai/asia#asia-daily-take) · [Try Bilby](https://pulse.bilby.ai/sign-up)