# Clarios Recycling GmbH

Group: Clarios  
Ownership path: Clarios Recycling GmbH (company) → [Clarios](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/clarios.md) (corporate group)  
Country of seat: Germany  
Data as of: 2026-11-04, version 2.49  
Page: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/clarios-recycling-gmbh

## Plants

### Krautscheid (Buchholz, Westerwald) – secondary lead smelter: battery recycling in a shaft furnace, smelting and refining (Buchholz (Westerwald) – Krautscheid, Germany)

- Link: secondary lead smelter (battery breaking, smelting and refining)
- Status: operating
- Metals: lead
- Coordinates: 50.6961, 7.3776 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0)
- Source [B]: Clarios – Informationen zum richtigen Verhalten bei Störfällen: Recycling-Werk in Krautscheid (2025), s. 1–2 – https://useast2prodbrandsites.blob.core.windows.net/sf-assets/docs/default-source/default-document-library/krautscheid-2025.pdf?sfvrsn=425db4b2_25
- Source [B]: Clarios – Informationen zum richtigen Verhalten bei Störfällen: Recycling-Werk in Krautscheid (2025), s. 1–2 – https://useast2prodbrandsites.blob.core.windows.net/sf-assets/docs/default-source/default-document-library/krautscheid-2025.pdf?sfvrsn=425db4b2_25
- Note: Clarios Recycling GmbH has recovered lead in Krautscheid since 1904 using the shaft furnace process; the quantity of lead processed each year corresponds to about 5 million car batteries. The plant is an upper-tier establishment (obere Klasse) under the major-accident regulations.
- Verified at source: 2026-11-04

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- Krautscheid (Buchholz, Westerwald) – secondary lead smelter: battery recycling in a shaft furnace, smelting and refining (Buchholz (Westerwald) – Krautscheid, Germany): smelter; Metal: lead; Accepted grades: grades not established in the register documents

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