EV battery recycling firm eyes expansion

Tony Booth is the CEO at Green Tech Industries based in Southam.

Less than eight months after moving into new premises, an EV battery recycling firm has said it is looking to expand and employ more staff.

Green Tech Industries (GTI) takes used EV batteries from vehicles and recycles the components to put back into the supply chain, either breaking them down or salvaging components for re-use.

The specialist company, which moved to its premises at Sucham Park, Southam, in April, hopes to double its workforce from 10 to 20.

Chief executive Tony Booth, 43, from Coventry, said: "Our aim is to have a Midlands-based technology centre and centre of excellence, where our first factory will be built... and [that] will become a blueprint.

A battery-powered wheelchair is one of the modes of transport that GTI powers

Mr Booth started the business after identifying a gap in the expanding green economy to support businesses with waste and recycling challenges.

Since 2018, he has been investing in the development of processes to strip batteries, repurpose and then recertify the components to sell back into the industry.

'Centre of excellence'

"The factory will enable us to be able to show customers, and also the industry, what we're about and what we can do."

"We're seeing a lot of materials coming through to us where a car has had something go wrong with it and it's ended up having to be written off because there's no where to fix it."

Having grown up in Coventry and attended the city's President Kennedy School, Mr Booth said it was important to him to employ people from the region.

"It's a big passion of mine, I really want to make sure we give jobs back to the local area.

'We're doing a recruitment drive locally because we actually want to make sure that [people] feel like they can come and work at an engineering company like this, without having all of the skills.

"We will instill [those in] them through our training programmes on site."