# Orzeł Biały S.A.

Country of seat: Poland  
Data as of: 2026-11-04, version 2.49  
Page: https://www.ai-waw.com/en/companies/orzel-bialy-s-a

## Plants

### Piekary Śląskie – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining (Piekary Śląskie, Poland)

- Link: secondary lead smelter (battery breaking, smelting and refining)
- Status: operating
- Metals: lead
- Coordinates: 50.384, 18.9456 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0)
- Source [B]: Company website – Recycling process: battery separation, smelting in furnaces, lead refining (orzel-bialy.com.pl) – https://orzel-bialy.com.pl/proces-recyklingu
- Source [A]: Orzeł Biały S.A. – Management Board Report on the Operations of the Orzeł Biały Capital Group for 2025 (consolidated annual report) – https://orzel-bialy.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SRR_GKOB_2025.zip
- Source [B]: EEA, Industrial Reporting under the IED and E-PRTR, wersja 16 (2007–2024), plik „F6_1_IED_Installations.csv” (User friendly .csv files) – https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/datashare/s/sptXqwkQr5g7Bp5/download?path=/eea_t_ied-eprtr_p_2007-2024_v16_r00
- Note: Spent batteries are separated into electrolyte, lead paste, metallic fraction and plastics; the paste and metallic fraction are smelted in four furnaces into crude lead, which is refined into lead and lead alloys.
- Verified at source: 2026-11-03

## Products

- [Refined unwrought lead](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/pb-refined.md) – Piekary Śląskie – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining (Piekary Śląskie)
- [Antimonial unwrought lead (PbSb alloys)](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/pb-antimonial.md) – Piekary Śląskie – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining (Piekary Śląskie)
- [Other unwrought lead and lead alloys (PbCa, PbSn, bullion lead)](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/products/pb-unwrought-other.md) – Piekary Śląskie – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining (Piekary Śląskie)

## Scrap buyer

> A picture of the market – not a commercial recommendation.

- Piekary Śląskie – lead-acid battery recycling, lead smelting and refining (Piekary Śląskie, Poland): smelter; Metal: lead; Accepted grades: spent lead-acid batteries (whole or crushed) (accepts)

[Scrap buyers in the Recycling tab](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/recycling.md)

## Metal flow analyses

- [Lead Flows in Poland](https://www.ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/lead-flows-poland.md)